The Jungle by Upton SinclairJurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite open The Jungle novel with a celebration of their wedding. The opening of the book highlights the best time Jurgis and Ona will ever experience again during their time in America. Jurgis believes he can achieve the American dream, achieving prosperity through hard work and dedication. However, as the novel progresses, we soon see that this dream of Jurgis's is much further than he expected, and prosperity seems untouchable unless one renounces one's morals and values ​​and joins capitalist America . In this novel we see Jurgis begin with a dream and end with a dream, though much is lost in the process. Jurgis and Ona decide to move to America with the persuasion of Teta Elzbieta's brother, Jonas, who tells stories of a man who made his fortune in America. However, the first sign of hard times and trouble comes when Jonas meets this man in America and discovers that he is far from successful, but rather in financial difficulty. Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle, opens the novel with Jurgis and Ona's wedding banquet and celebration to allow the reader to sympathize with the characters. If the novel began immediately with the hardships that have befallen this family, the reader would know nothing about their values ​​or their lifestyle without poverty and misery. The first chapter allows the reader to connect with the family, so in turn the reader is more sympathetic to the difficulties the family goes through. As soon as the wonderful feast with copious amounts of food is over, Sinclair begins to introduce the reader to the life of an immigrant and the problems that affect immigrants. Jurgis comes to America with... middle of paper... changes Jurgis' way of life. Sinclair accomplishes several things in the novel, such as allowing an American reader to sympathize with a poor immigrant, which was uncommon at the time. The reader is not aware that the main purpose of the novel is to support socialism until the last chapters of the book. Sinclair did not adapt to socialism and almost changed the topic of the entire novel in the final chapters. The point is proven: immigrants lived an unjust life of poverty and abuse, and socialism was the answer for many of these immigrants. However, this point is not demonstrated as well as it could have been due to the sudden shift towards socialism. Sinclair uses the life of an immigrant family to show the hardships that all immigrants faced in America and the benefits of socialism for these immigrants and for American wage workers.