Summary Of Mosquitoland By David Arnold

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).”

In The Jungle by Uptown Sinclair, the immigrants were exploited to a point of slavery. They were not treated with care, and were considered a number and not a person. The company did not care whether or not how the person did their job, or how much danger the person in. As long as the job was done on time, and no money was wasted. At some points the men would not be able to work. Some men had little to no feeling in their hands due to cuts, and bruises. Uptown Sinclair showed this by saying, “The hands of these men would be criss-crossed with cuts, until you could no longer pretend to count them or to trace them.”-chapter 8 Sinclair. No person should have to go through all the pain and suffering these men had. It is hard for a person to make

A wealthy nation is not a prosperous nation, as a nation can be prosperous without being wealthy. Wealth can be defined as capital or vice versa as having properties or resources and turning it into money. A country that is wealthy can have both rich and poor people living in it. There is an upper class, middle class and lower class, which individuals are associated to. We all know that individuals in the upper class have more resources, materials, properties and more money than the middle and lower class. The position that Upton Sinclair takes is that a wealthy nation isn’t a prosperous nation as many immigrants worked in horrible conditions and lived in miserable areas in her book “The Jungle”. I claim that a wealthy nation isn’t a prosperous nation because people have to look at the quality of human life and factors such as education, health care, inequality, basic needs, social goods and literacy are key aspects in determining if a wealthy nation is a prosperous nation. The first body paragraph of my essay will be focusing on Gross Domestic Product and how it is not the best way to determine if a country is wealthy or not. Also it will be addressing the issues of Qatar which is the richest nation and has the highest per capita. The second body paragraph will illustrate the drive for capital by Heilbroner and how it can produce wealth or misery. Upton Sinclair book “The Jungle” is a good example as it shows how Jurgis left Lithuania to go to America to become a wealthy

Uptons Sinclairs The Jungle from 1906 is a fictional book from the progressive era. Even though The Jungle is a fictional novel, it described conditions that were real during the progressive era, such as working class poverty and harsh working conditions. The novel was written as a way to exploit the real lives of working citizens at home and at work.

He learns that he should always listen to his brain and not what other people think because when people said that the ride was easy it was actually a long distance filled with rough terrain. The narrator says, " I own a very good map!". This shows that the character should have listened to what his brain told him and not what the strangers did, because it made his ride that much harder to accomplish. Obviously, he learns that no matter how old and wise someone is you should always follow your

Upton Sinclair was an American writer whose works reverts not only the inside but also the socialists view on things. Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was born into a family which held to its Southern aristocracy in everything that was done. When Sinclair was ten years old, the family packed up and moved to New York City as there were more opportunities to succeed.

New agencies were established as a role of the government's responsibility to its citizens and one of those agencies was the Food and Drug Association. The Food and Drug Association origins could be traced back to the creation of the Agricultural Division in the Patent Office in 1848. The FDA federal consumer protection agency began when the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act was passed. This law was aimed to end serious abuses in the consumer product marketplace. This agency was strongly advocated by Harvey Washington Wiley and the act was passed because of his efforts and Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle".

Writing has always been the primary vehicle for social commentary and reform. From Upton Sinclair’s damning exposure of the meat processing industry in The Jungle, to George Orwell’s grave warning concerning communism in Animal Farm, to William Goulding’s disturbing look at human nature post World War 2 in Lord of the Flies, countless authors have attempted to expose flaws in their society through writing. Rome, as a growing republic, and later as a sprawling empire, was consistently rife with corruption, abuse of power, and the degradation of morals. Writers like Sallust, Juvenal, and Tacitus saw these social flaws as opportunities, whether to drive social or political change, or to increase their influence, or just to make a statement to the government and the Roman people. However, these three writers each took a different approach to his commentary. Through comedic hyperbole and satire, Juvenal looked to expose the moral degradation of Roman women in Satire VI. On the other hand, Sallust focused on political corruption in the late Roman Republic, using the history of the Jugurthine War as a lens by which to observe the corruption he despised. With yet another approach, Tacitus aimed to criticize despots like Emperor Domitian and to denounce imperialism through the biography of Agricola, the Roman general who conquered Britain.

In Helena Viramontes’ short story “The Moths,” she explores the thematic ideas of negativity and growth in the context of familial expectations.

Gastroenteritis, Typhoid Fever, and E. coli… all conditions that can result from eating mishandled food. Before modern research, nobody knew that these aliments could result from consuming food that was handled by someone in a factory which had poor sanitation. The environments of these factories are specifically depicted in Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle. We now live under the impression that the FDA and other governmental companies are strictly regulating what happens to the food we consume - that we are fully protected from any harmful diseases we could catch from something that gives us life; however, this is just another false promise the leaders of this country tell us in order to secure our dependence upon them.

Upton Sinclair in his novel The Jungle made it clear that the family consisting of Jurgis, Ona, Teta Elzbieta, Marija, and others, were chasing after an almost nonexistent “American dream” in hope for happiness and money in their lives. Instead of a land of acceptance and opportunity, they find a place of prejudice and exploitation; instead of a country where hard work and morality lead to success, they find a place where only moral corruption, crime, and graft enable one to succeed materially (The Jungle: Themes, Motifs & Symbols). The hypocrisy of the American dream hit the family will full force and drove them into the ground.

Mosquitoland by David Arnold is a novel of realistic fiction that follows the path of Mim Malone, a teenage girl suffering from psychosis and a broken family, who has made it her mission to travel from Mississippi, or “Mosquitoland,” to Ohio to find her real mom and find out why she left, with only a coffee can of spare change. Mosquitoland is a character-driven novel, rather than a plot-driven novel, and Mim encounters many “villains” as she gets closer to Cleveland. The most prominent villain is Kathy Sherone, her new step-mom. Although she is more of an anti-hero, Kathy is a villain to the main character. She enhances Mim’s drive to keep moving further and further away from Mississippi and proves to the reader that being dishonest can have dire consequences.

Summary: Mosquitoland is a coming of age story by David Arnold. The main idea of the book is Mim’s (the main character) journey from Mississippi to Cleveland to get to her mother, in it she makes friends and has all kinds of experiences. The friends she makes are Walt; a teenager with down syndrome living under a bridge and Beck, a “stunningly handsome” man in his twenties who she meets after trying to buy a used Pickup-Truck. Her experience range from a cubs game with her newfound friends to a horrible stomach ache from a chinese food buffet.

“Grave of the Fireflies” was directed by Isao Takahata and animated by Studio Ghibli on 16th April 1988. The film takes place during the fire bombings of Kobe, and the enemy flies above, but they are not characterized in a villainous manner. The fireflies in this movie are a frequent motif used as an analogy to those innocent victims who suffered to survive due to starvation. The movie is a devastating meditation on the human cost of war, and it follows Seita (Tsutomu Tatsumi), a teenager charged with the care of his younger sister, Setsuko (Ayano Shiraishi) after an American firebombing during World War II. This animated tale is based on a semi-autobiographic book by the same name, whose author lost his sister due to malnutrition in 1945 during

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction novel about a futuristic community that has lost the ability to socially interact with one another. Guy Montag is the average citizen. His profession is a fireman, except in this society firemen don’t prevent fires, they start them. His job, like many other firemen, is to illuminate books by burning them because books are illegal. Over the course of Fahrenheit 451, Montag realizes society and its faults. Bradbury uses Montag to depict technology and censorship as examples of warning signs, and how that society could one day become ours.