America. In this book the reader is introduced to several characters from Lithuania who

have dreams of rising from the depths of poverty, using the American dream to attain a

life full of freedom, finical security, hope and happiness. Instead these characters are

bombarded with slavery, manipulation, depression and hard realizations about "true

American society". These realizations lead one of the characters to Socialism, a system

Sinclair seems to find more agreeable than capitalism.

In the first chapter of this book the reader is introduced to Jurgis, a hard working,

limited minded young man who is about to wed a young lady named Ona. Jurgis' big day

is one of the only glimpses of hope that the reader sees in this book. It is the only time

when the future of these people looks decent in any shape or form. The guests are

dancing and the band plays while others drink themselves into a stupor. The general

mood is one of contentment. However, even in this scene Upton Sinclair slowly begins

to integrate the Lithuanian group into America's harsh socie

that either they had danced with the bride already, or meant to later on."

new way of life is now confronted with his old way of life when he meets with Marija.

Some were white hogs, some were black; some were brown, some were spotted; some were old,

realizations they are destroyed in the cold calculating machine never to be heard from

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Approximate Word count = 1840
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)