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party and for him the American Dream was just a mirage leading many immigrants to 
poverty and oppressions. Sinclair tried to show how working people live in a very 
though life in industrial cities. They live in very poor places and mostly in tenements, 
small flats having many families. Workers had to spend all day sacrificing their life 
dangerous places just to gain a minimum wage
The graphic realism of the Packingtown environment engages readers through 
the stimulation of their senses, but in order to understand the human costs of such 
unsafe and unsanitary working conditions readers need to feel a sympathetic 
connection to the workers. 
When The Jungle was published, the nation reacted in 
horror. After reading the novel, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered an immediate 
investigation into the meat industry, though privately he told Sinclair that he disliked 
the Socialist polemic near the end of the novel
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. 
The art of Upton Sinclair highly effected to the society and led to many changes 
of that time political conditions. Firstly and initially, “The Jungle” brought to light the 
problems in meat industry. It was tied to the rise of the Progressive Era was all about 
getting the government more involved with society problems instead of letting society 
take care of itself through natural selection. The impact of The Jungle was very high 
and is still seen with the creation of agencies which are still on the action today, such 
as Food and Drug Administrations. In the book, governments of federal were hired at 
each packing facility to make sure that the meat products being sold to people are fit 
for consumption.
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. New York 1906, publisher Dunlap 12pp.
3. Roosevelt Theodore (1906), Conditions in Chicago Stockyards. 

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On the other hand, The Jungle takes the reader along on a journey with a group 
of recent Lithuanian immigrants to America. As well as a physical journey, this is a 
journey into a new world for them. Through reading this book, readers comprehend 
that, writer is engaging them in a symbolic and metaphorical war that is against 
capitalism. Today, many people believe that this novel, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 
is highly significant for anyone living in America, because some problems are still 
existent with their and many other societies as well. Throughout the story the author’s 
main focus or theme is the conflict of socialism versus capitalism and the depressing 
truth of the American Dream. Many of his messages concerning wage slavery, 
socialism, poverty and trickery of factories are still common dilemmas that exist until 
now. The most important effect of the publication of The Jungle that the people during 
the progressive movement were not afraid to speak their mind and wanted change. This 
also shows us all the improvements that were made during the progressive movement 
because people wanted change. 
The Jungle, in the way of conclusion, was created to be social expose and 
muckraking. The author accurately described the hard life and rotten labor conditions 
of the working class at that time being mainly as in images of immigrant who really 
believed in American Dream. Sinclair himself considered that, the American Dream 
was an ambition for him and thought could never be gained without socialism. At the 
end, the book not only achieved its high popularity but also its main objectives and 
made remarkable promotions to change the laws of regulating food industry.

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REFERNCES 
1.
Early socialism in the United States – HowStuffWorks. Web, 1 Feb.
2.
“Revisiting “The Jungle” in modern times” by Bill Savage, Nov 5, 2015.
3.
Roosevelt Theodore (1906), Conditions in Chicago Stockyards. 
4.
Sinclair Upton. The Jungle. Cambridge Mass: R. Bentley, 1971
5.
The Jungle and the Progressive Era // The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American 
History.
6.
“Upton Sinclair” Wikipedia Foundation Web, 2005.

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