A Career In Mainstreet By Sinclair Lewis

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was written to expose the brutality faced by the workers in the meatpacking industry. Sinclair wanted to show people what was really going on in the factory because few people were informed about these companies work conditions. He wanted to show the public that meat was “ diseased, rotten, and contaminated” (Willie).” This revelation shocked the, public which later led to the creation of the federal laws on food and safety. Sinclair strongly shows the failure of capitalism in the meatpacking industry which he viewed as inhumane, destructive, unjust, brutal, and violent (Willie).”

The Jungle was first published in 1906. Contemporary critics disagree about whether or not the novel has any “relevance” for modern readers. What do YOU think?

John Edgar Wideman begins his piece, Our Time, with a description of the world he grew up in. He takes the reader through the story of his brother, Robby, using a variety of voices and points of view. In this narration of his brother’s life he brings to light his own dilemma with writing the piece. He uses a variety of voices and points of view to demonstrate the different perspectives of Robby 's story. To contest the ethical dilemma of telling someone else’s story without exploiting it, Wideman addresses the issue head on. By reading Our Time, a writer could learn much from Wideman, and adopt a number of his methods for different writing styles.

While sitting in her bed late at night, she takes out a journal and writes the names of every person she has killed over the years. She counts the total, and writes 18 in big numbers and circles it (Not Tomorrow Yet). At this point in time, she has not killed a person in quite a while. However, the emotional toll of her actions still follows her around. This does not stop her from killing a total of four zombies (low estimate) throughout this single episode. She defies the notion that warrior women need to be able to snap back to normal as soon as tragedy is over, and shows that emotion is a valid feeling for someone of a powerful disposition. While not being sexualized, Carol manages to successfully hold a relationship which goes against Douglas’s idea that warrior women need to be alone in order to be successful. A warrior woman is not allowed to have a healthy romantic relationship, and “the notion of [a warrior woman] having a boyfriend would be like Arnold Schwarzenegger having a crinoline” (Douglas

Chapter 39 which is the last chapter in the book shows the realization that Carrol really didn’t acompish much in Washington and decides to come back and live , she realized that majority the town will not change and instead just decides to live in the town and get married and has more kids. Carol looks at coming back to this town as a job and doesent really enjoy coming back to that town “After a week she decided that she was neither glad nor sorry to be back. She entered each day with the matter–of–fact attitude with which she had gone to her office in Washington. It was her task; there would be mechanical details and meaningless talk; what of it? (page 465)” When I was reading the book I thought maybe there could be a change or maybe she could have sparked a reseince of art and bring in a new culture but instead the town was pretty much the same with not that much change in the town. She feels very defeated that she didn’t accomplish what she really wanted to in that town, in the beginning she had many bright ideads and very creative and with dreams of creating a new culture in the town. At the end of the book all the excitement she had for the future was gone and she just decied to just become a wife and a mother to fit in with the

In Arthur Miller 's play, Death of a Salesman, the major theme as well as the main source of conflict is Willy 's inability to distinguish between reality and illusion. Willy has created a fantasy world for himself and his family, a world in which he and his sons are great men who "have what it takes" to make it in the context of business and free enterprise. In reality, none of them can achieve greatness until they confront and deal with this illusion.

In America, meat is an important part of our culture’s food. You’d think that we would protect it, make sure it’s safe to eat and all. In the 1800’s, this wasn’t a main concern regarding the meat in slaughterhouses and such, as exposed by the great muckraker Upton Sinclair.

In order to atone for the unsatisfactory conditions that feature in Lewis’ novels, all three protagonists engage in the decidedly human response of rebellion against what Lewis sees as an unnatural world. Each rebellion is demonstrated in a variety of ways and chronologies that differ from novel to novel. In Main Street, from the moment Carol arrives in Gopher Prairie, she finds absorbs in near constant rebellion - both silent and vocal - to the townspeople, her husband, and the single-mindedness of the town. Initial preludes to her true rebellion appear sprinkled throughout the novel. Carol tries everything in her power to “change the town—awaken it, prod it, "reform" it” from its conservative character into her own vision, from urban beautification,

In The Walking Dead, Carol is a very timid person who not only loses her abusive husband but her little girl after a zombie outbreak. She is with a group of survivors led by a man named Rick who is an experienced police officer. He confronts her about the murder of two people. Carol tells Rick that she killed the two people because of an infection they had contracted and for others to survive the people had to die. Carol does what has to be done; therefore, she becomes hardened to becoming a killer. The change that Carol experiences because of all the trauma she has experienced

The play “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller is about the loss of personality as well as a man’s incapability to admit the change in himself and society. The play is a montage of memories, confrontations, dreams, and arguments that all make up the last 24 hours of Willy Loman’s daily life. The author uses the Loman’s family that comprises of Willy, Linda, Happy, and Biff to construct a constant cycle of contraction, denial, and order versus disorder.

Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. was and still is a highly recognized novelist and muckraker; throughout his lengthy and notorious career, he wrote approximately one hundred novels and short stories that jawed about how the world needed remolding. Mr. Sinclair acquired numerous prizes and honors during his time in the spotlight; one in particular was the Pulitzer Prize in 1943 for his 1942 best seller, Dragons Teeth. After nearly seventy-eight years of being an author, Sinclair finished off his vocation in 1976 when his final book, The Coal War, surfaced in almost every bookstore in the United States.

The eulogized plight of colonial heroes fighting to ensure equality for a budding during the American Revolution is as natural to the average American as breathing. On the outside, there is no question about the authenticity of the idealized story and heroes that are the brick and mortar of American ideals of fundamental rights established in the Declarations of Independence by the founding fathers. But the actual ratification of that equality has remained the struggle of America since the beginning. Authors, philosophers, and masses alike have examined the foundation of the American society for the cracks of inequality, and many began pointing fingers at the Capitalist system. Pieces like Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, added to the voices

At the practitioner, she tests as a very healthy woman with not seen cause for her symptoms. Ultimately she is referred to a psychiatrist to help her. At the psychiatrist, he is unable to diagnose Carol with anything as well. Ultimately, the only issue they find with her is an allergy to milk which the film never shows that she fully gives up. Her husband is verbally abusive to her during the film when she brings up her issues, and it doesn’t seem like he cares about her, we can suggest this as we see that their relationship is extremely distant. In the opening scene we see that there is no passion at all during sex and whenever they did have a deep conversation they were standing across the room from each other and they both seemed very uncomfortable opening up. Then During the baby shower, while in the restroom, her "friends" were gossiping about Carol seeing a psychiatrist. With all these examples we can see that Carol never really had much support while looking for a cure to her illness. The damage in her personal life as a result of her search for answers, comes from opting to seeing a psychiatrist. Earlier in my undergrad, while taking part in a intro to counseling class, we learned that one of the biggest obstacles people face when deciding if they should get help from counseling is the social stigmas that come from it. When our class was polled on our thoughts of people who get counseling, most the of the replies were "crazy people." As we see in the film, when Carols doctor initially refers her to the psychiatrist, both Carol and her husband have faces of disbelief, as if it were the worst thing that could possibly happen. From that point on, it seems Carol is on her own in finding a solution to her

Carol, on the other hand, is not as demonic as some critics would make her out to be. Ironically, “unlike her professor, Carol is a careful reader who improves at that vocation as the play progresses.” Carol tries to keep him on topic and sees his contradictions. Unlike John who is “dishonest from the start,” and static, Carol “is a character who develops quite remarkably in a fairly influential environment that finally determines some her core beliefs.” In Act One, John’s failure to listen to Carol’s “secret,” one she has never told anyone else before, shows the high level of trust she put in him as her professor. When he does not address this issue after the interrupting phone call, “Carol remains burdened and

Since the beginning of the Industrial Age, Americans have idealized the journey towards economic success. One thing people do not realize, however, is that journey is not the same for every individual. Media often leads its viewers toward a “one size fits all” version of success that may help themselves, but will rarely help the viewers. This is seen in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Miller includes multiple instances of symbolism and personification to reveal to the reader the situational irony in Willy’s life, underlining the theme of self-deception in regard to the American Dream. This American Dream, fueled by money, is the main source of anxiety in Willy’s life. The anxiety of income is reflected today in the issue of minimum