Sadly, the truth that is reveal in the book, The Jungle, is that in America no one will get ahead unless stepping over people and taking advantage of them. The American dream is simply a naïve concept that only the ignorant believe and as well that it’s impossible to move ahead in America unless becoming part in its corruption. This believes caused death, suffrage, illness and their change in morality. In the end the American dream is a fairy tale without a happy ending.
Millions of immigrant raced to America during the industrialization era, in the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth, for jobs opportunities and high wages; disappointedly they were met with terrible working conditions, barely livable wages, encountered hostility and racism from the citizens of their new homeland. In Jurgis family because of the barely livable wages the woman and children were forced to work, despite Jurgis hard work in sweeping the entrails of slaughtered cattle