The Jungle Chapter 31

I am so glad to finally have finished that book. I was so annoyed with it by the end. It was just so annoying to keep read about socialism over and over and over and over again. It just seems to go on and on by the end. I believe that even the author became annoyed with it too; he just drops the storyline for the most part, and argues unrentlessly for socialism. He seems to have become tired of writing it, so it shows in his tiredness of writing his novel. I was quite literally falling asleep while I was reading this. I really don’t think that it was a good idea for Sinclair to introduce us to new characters again at the end. I mean, I am glad that he doesn’t include too much description on these new people at that house that they travelled to. I do not quite understand the ending; “CHICAGO WILL BE OURS!” It could mean a many different number of things. It could mean that Packing town workers will rise. It could mean the fall of the capitalistic society painted as the scene. While I was reading, I was thinking about how it will end for the characters. Teta is dying, so I would not expect her to survive. Marija is a prostitute, and is addicted to drugs of some kind. The boys would probably not survive for very long on their own. I still think that Jurgis would survive. He might not be so happy without his family, but at least he would survive.