Evil, Immoral, and death all relate to the word darkness in The Jungle, a book written by Upton Sinclair. Jurgis, a Lithuanian is migrating to America with his eleven family members. Jurgis, along with his family has, his eyes set on money and happiness in America. But it didn't quite turn out that way he and his family obtained jobs but benefitted nothing from them. As if they were headed nowhere fast, all they got was death and sickness. Soon Jurgis joined the Socialist party and tried to survive in the American society. Darkness symbolizes a no way out situation, and also evil situations, similar to how Jurgis and his family felt.
             The word darkness can be used as a powerful expression, and is in relation with the color black. Sinclair looks at Jurgis as having, "....great black eyes...and thick black hair...", in the beginning of the book. Great black eyes and thick black hair, can also be thought of as evil. Or maybe get your mind to think about some type of evilness. Unlike other colors black sticks out the most, so when the words blackness or darkness are used, it can make the person or situation appear to be dominant or even controlling. This is a way Simclair uses darkness in relation to a person or situation in the book.
             Smoke, on a more sour note, also describes the living conditions that Jurgis and his family were forced to live in, in the stockyards. In touch with that the quote ...."half a dozen columns of smoke, thick, oily, and black as night..." relates to darkness. This shows how the people in America had a nasty, filthy place to live for the immigrants. Smoke and black both can make one think of darkness, as Sinclair used them, a long with bad corrupt thoughts. And that's how he looked at the stockyards, with no respect for people from out of town. The words Sinclair uses, such as black, oily, thick and smoke makes one believe that it isn't a sanitary place to live. The way Sinclair uses thes...