The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

and in her happiness painful to look upon.

Bride

There was no other place for the babies to be,

Far cry from wealthy contemporary weddings where brides get offended if a child comes.

Eiffel tower

1889

music

Music transcends poverty (theme?)

it is his task to saw out one long-drawn and lugubrious note after another,

Toil in a team, task

Even the boys, who are romping about the room, draw near and listen, and some of the women sob and wipe their aprons in their eyes.

Admire Beauty at any stage of wealth

Jurgis had always been a member of the church, because it was the right thing to be, but the church had never touched him, he left all that for the women. Here, however, was a new religion—one that did touch him, that took hold of every fiber of him; and with all the zeal and fury of a convert he went out as a missionary.

Flawed: outside influences don't just touch you. You are open and then you seek.

luxury of grief.

Brilliant characterzation

might attract attention and become a skilled man or a boss,

The book is arranged in stages: little story. Focus on one character. Exposure of injustice. Depressing relation to character. Redemption Possibility. Hope. Despair.

Socialists.

Immigrants come to US for the opportunities. Jurgis found the hope etc he was looking for only in the *limbo* of Socialist Utopia. A socialist utopia that is govern, somewhat, by the org around the world. And there is no way the soociialist group in his former country would survive the impending revolution like it might be allowed to breathe in the US. the best part of soociiallism is the hope tht one day it could be implemented. But it won't be and if it were, it would fail to be socialist because someone would have to be in charge of it.

prove to them what he was, and what he taught, and what he did?

Did Sinclair want Jesus to be the straw that broke the camel's back for his reader, to agree with him?

First, that a Socialist believes in the common ownership and democratic management of the means of producing the necessities of life; and, second, that a Socialist believes that the means by which this is to be brought about is the class conscious political organization of the wage-earners.

Socialism defined

impressionist painters would be supported by those who liked to look at impressionist pictures

Just like with capitalism

we could at present form no conception whatever.

Exactly. Utopia the hopeful prospect, and never to be proven or disproven.

bonnets,

So socialism will govern individuals' interests and whether or not their products are worth producing?

ostentation and snobbishness,

Governing morality

Horace Fletcher,

Look up

and I like to picture it all as it will be after the revolution.

Bonk

most of the ills of the human system are due to overfeeding!