The book opens on Anderson Lake, he stands in an open street market in Thailand inspecting the

The reader gets a rare and exotic understanding of a totally foreign and ancient culture experiencing the growing pains of colonial expansion during the British domination

Upton Sinclair’s novel “The Jungle” is a classic story of greed, corruption, and misfortune following Jurgis Rudkis and his love interest/eventual wife, Ona Lukosazite, and their two families. The novel shows off the complexity of and fickle nature of life and all that within it that we all take for granted. The characters feel very human and their troubles are very sympathetic as well. One begins to feel delight as well as anguish at the author’s non-existent mercy.

Upton SInclair’s novel, The Jungle, is a novel based on the “Gilded Age” in american history. It is the life of a working man named Jurgis Rudkus and as the story progresses, it shows the corruption and dishonesty of the people during this time period, as well as their reasoning behind their actions. Also as the novel continued, it showed the author's inspiration for the title of this novel. Throughout the book, Upton Sinclair had scattered metaphors as to why Capitalism is corrupt and why Socialism is better. With subtle hints to social classes and how Jurgis progresses through them through corruption.

“The Jungle” truly is a touching story that depicts just how bad being an immigrant in America was. They often worked in worse conditions than anybody else while those in charge lived comfortably. The book also shows how hopeful some wear and how strictly they believed in the so-called American dream. Jurgis was a strong spirited man, which often helped his family. Ona, seeing her husband work as hard as he did, trusted his feelings that they would soon make it out of the hole they were stuck

The Jungle, a novel by the muckraker Upton Sinclair, follows the life of Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus and his family in the first decade of the twentieth century. It describes the various tragedies that befall the family. The novel should be considered part of the American Canon, the body of works that are considered the most important and influential in shaping American culture, because of Sinclair’s unique portrayal of the time, the effect that this novel had on society, and the novel’s literary value.

In my opinion, this was a very good novel. The Jungle is a useful source to anyone interested in the current issues of immigration, industrialization, organized labor, and government regulation of the economy in America. I would definitely recommend it for my friends who are immigrant so we might acknowledge and understand more about the difficulties of a very first newly immigrant in America. This book is not only entertaining and interesting, but it also teaches me a lot about American history. As a foreigner, sometime I want to give up; however, this story has strengthened me to archive a better future. After many corrupted events happen in the story, readers would understand the main character, Jurgis better. The author writes, “So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed. If one could only manage to get the price of passage, he could count his troubles at an end”. Jurgis, as similar to other immigrants, who is very naive to begin with; however, through so many life obstacles, how the entire system operates. Readers would see the broadest picture of a corrupted system that destroy everything to preserve its own wealth and keep a mess on the working-class people who are either too busy or too ignorant to organize and abolish it. Finally, he ends up with no consideration and room for optimism on a brighter tomorrow. There are not any plans for the future where Jurgis tries to achieve and keeps working on. He endures a disturbing life fulfilled with ups and downs, even deceitfulness, drug abuse, and criminal. This book also reminds American should be thankful for the changes of the progressive era; how much American takes for granted in our day-to-day lives. The author does a great job of conveying the terrible hardship faced by the unqualified labor

The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair, is a novel shedding light on work conditions in factories and constant unjustified acts. The story is filled with many different political and social issues for immigrants in the early 1900s. Sinclair uses multiple literary devices to express these issues in a way the reader may understand. Of the many issues pointed out in this novel, the one that stood out the most was disillusionment. The characters are constantly faced with new ideas they don’t yet understand, making them vulnerable to such an issue.

The Jungle tells the story of one Lithuanian family's journey to America to seek a better life. When the Rudkus family first arrive, they are naively hopeful about their prospects in America and have dreams of owning a home, marrying, and having children. Once they arrive, their dreams are not easy or even possible to achieve. Ona and the children must go to work, family members die as a result of brutal working conditions, and the family is cheated into signing a lease on a home, which they eventually lose. The optimism of the Rudkus family is contrasted with the hardships in their lives, and their dreams are replaced by a struggle for survival. Through their experience, Sinclair shows how immigrants are used as mere tools for capitalist

Finally Ha and her family make it to America. In the book it states,”We have landed on an island…” They have to live in tents but it is still better than on the mats in the boat. They meet a cowboy that takes care of them and is also the first

This book is a true story about a company from 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, during the Chosin Reservoir in November of 1950 when China was getting involved in the Korean War. The company had to hold a hill so that other Marine units could fight their way clear of the Chinese and make it to the coast to get out of North Korea.

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a tough read that teaches the corrupt policies of capitalism. The narrator, Jurgis, struggles with his new life in America because it isn’t the ideal dream that most immigrants have. Jurgis’ struggles are understandable, but there are many who have never had to experience what he has so it is harder to sympathize and compare oneself to that of a character with no similarities. However, this novel also teaches the hardships immigrants typically went through during their transitions, or their lives in general, in America while also providing the reader with healthy confusion. This novel establishes a sense of confusion, uneasiness, or worry while also making the reader feel pleasure or happiness. There are several instances in the novel where the reader experiences this healthy confusion while learning about the differences in lifestyles between the fortunate and those looking to have a new life but encounter conflicts. Most scenes in this novel are sad, but also have happiness buried deep within the text or meaning.

Oppression is a very difficult obstacle for people to overcome and conquer. In The Pearl, the town people suffer many economic and social oppressions in their lives. Kino, a townsman, lives with his wife, Juana, and his newborn son, Coyotito in Mexico. They are a very poor family who cannot afford the best materials life has to offer them. Thier friends, the town people, help encourage and support them with their everyday lives. They soon learn to adapt to the rocky lifestyle, but still struggle to rid the oppression that haunts them. Major problems Kino’s family has are they do not have money, education, and equality.

Just as struggles between the upper and lower class were born from a lack of understanding for the other man’s condition in the early days of industrialization, the same is true for the times of imperialism. The English in Burmese Days have taken control of the area with no

The story of “Rikki-tikki-tavi” directly describes the English present in India and also the idea of domestication. The story “The White Seal,” exemplifies how India’s resources were taken and the brutality of the natives being forced from their homes by the British. Imperialistic ideas are visible throughout the novel as

The novel commences with the introduction of this particular family setting. Sethe initially had two daughters and two sons. During their escape from their slave master, she lost one of her daughters as her two sons went away from home. Sethe is married to Paul D who is the father figure in the family setting. After their escape from slavery they settled in 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati (Koolish 67). The society in this area is mostly slaves who escaped from their masters. The neighborhood is however, good for settlement as both Sethe and Paul D felt comfortable in the region.