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Term Paper Title	In Great Literature Writers Often Create Cultural, Governmental, And Other Socia
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In great literature writers often create cultural, governmental, and other social situations
in order to make important and even revolutionary statements on the nature of humanity.
Choose a work of literary merit and write a well-organized essay defining such a
situation and the statement the author is trying to make.

A Struggle To Survive
     Many authors often create forms of cultural, governmental, and social situations
to portray the importance of the nature of humanity.  The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
purposefully contains such situations in order to expose the intolerable working and
living conditions which workers were subjected to.  Because of the way the government
was controlled, each day was a naked struggle for survival, where workers not only were
forced to compete to keep their jobs, but if they faltered, were hard-pressed to keep
starvation from their door and a roof over their heads.  Sinclair depicted the actions of the
governing system as an argument towards socialism.  The government's inability to
provide tolerable working and living conditions was used to make a statement of the
inhumanity which workers and families were put through.
     To convey the desperate vulnerability and isolation workers went through,
Sinclair centers on an immigrant family whose economic problems are compounded by
cultural dislocation.  The families struggle to survive in Chicago served as the backbone
of the story.  The main character, Jurgis Rudkus, had a large family to support and could
hardly afford to pay for his daughter Ona's wedding.  Sinclair showed how capitalism
created disintegrating pressures between his families life, cultural ties, and moral values
through intolerable working and living conditions.  With "literally not a month's wages
between them and starvation," Jurgis, along with other workingmen were under pressure
to abandon their families, and women had to sometimes choose between starvation and
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