Socialism Has Done To America Rhetorical Analysis

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While Sinclair was writing an important message to the American people he did not simply put the words on a page. He used third person narrative to describe how Jurgis was feeling and what he was experiencing. Sinclair’s tone is sympathetic. He writes in a way that shows that the victims of the industrial age are the poor working class. His worldview is shown to the audience through the eyes of his main character Jurgis and the conflicts with the family members and other people in his life. From a standpoint of Socialism, Sinclair explores the movement as a plan that can fix what Capitalism has done to America. Through the descriptions of the characters lives, Sinclair effectively explains in detail how disastrous the exploitation of workers

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