The novel "The Jungle" was written by an American journalist/novelist named Upton Sinclair in 1906. "The Jungle" was a great success and became his most successful novel. sold because it revealed so much about the economic and social realities of that period. The book mainly described how unsanitary the meatpacking industry was in Chicago and the miserable lives of the immigrants who followed the industry. Through the life and family story of Jurgis Rudjus, a Lithuanian immigrant who comes to America with the belief of changing his life and living in better conditions, Sinclair says “The Jungle” is a symbol of capitalism. Sinclair's contempt for capitalist society is present throughout the novel, demonstrated in Jurgis' eagerness to work, the constant struggle for survival of the workers in Packing Town, and the corruption of man at all levels of society. Furthermore, the author promotes socialism as the standard political society to replace capitalism. First, what is capitalism? And why it's good and why it's bad. Capitalism is all about efficiency and getting things done. “Capital” itself means ownership, operation and trading to obtain benefits in the most efficient way. Capitalism is more about emphasizing individual profits rather than workers or society as a whole. Capitalism provides the free market that produces the best economic outcome for society. Furthermore, capitalism is not suitable for lazy and laid-back people because to live in capitalist society, people need to work very hard to survive. However, capitalism will compensate well for people who work hard and make contributions to society. This is its positive side. Capitalism is a form of political society... middle of paper... first, it destroys the healthy values ​​previously exhibited by the family. Jurgis and Ona grow further apart as times get worse, and when this culminates in Jurgis' discovery of Ona's rape and subsequent beating of her boss, Jurgis goes to prison. There are constant events happening one after another to this family due to the struggle to get more money to keep life sustainable. In fact there is no mercy given to this family. Sinclair shows the suffering of this family as much as possible to show the complete negligence of capitalist society towards the people it controls. Money has so much power that it lowers the value of man to the level of the animal. The pressure of life causes them to destroy hope and happiness from each other; take advantage of each other to gain your own advantage and to protect yourself.