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the majority of early literature, women are portrayed as inane, lofty characters that add little to nothing to the overarching plot. However, in some novels published at the crack of the twentieth century (namely The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Jungle) portray female characters that enrich narratives and catalyze change throughout each page. Whereas The Picture of Dorian Gray utilizes Sibyl Vane’s innocent personality to further Dorian’s pathway to evil, The Jungle’s Miss Henderson’s evil furthers

there were already more than 10 million immigrants living in America. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle reveals the struggles and hardships of a family that immigrated to the United States from Lithuania during the 1900s. Although many immigrant families came to America in search of a better life, soon most found themselves barely surviving with no job, food, shelter, or money. As is the case of the family in The Jungle. The novel not only unveils the corruption of the political and economic system during

In the politically righteous book, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, a newly wed’s feeling of innocence and happiness after their beautiful wedding in their homeland come to an end following the reality of discovering their new life in America. The notion comes from the disillusionment of American freedom and the twisted advertisement of a capitalist system. America was systematically built to be corrupt and dehumanized the significance of individual existence. This was done by easily replacing, deceiving

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair In the book “The Jungle”, Upton Sinclair writes about the life of a young couple and their family, Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite having to move to America after Ona’s father passed away which left them with little money, Jurgis decided to move his and Ona’s family to Chicago from Lithuania to pursue the American dream. Soon after, they learned that their idea of an American dream was not what they had pictured to be. The story entails the unlucky events that

Upon reading Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle, it can easily be seen that there were numerous injustices occurring within the early 1900s Chicago government. He wrote the book in 1906 after spending six months gathering research on the lives of poor, low class, immigrant families. With this information, he published his first book, The Jungle, through which he displays the hardships a immigrant family faces when they move to America. He chose the meat packing industry in the city of Chicago as his

In 1906’s The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, we are introduced to a family from Lithuania lead by Jurgis Rudkus, a young man of the age of twenty-six. Jurgis along with his love Ona Lukoszaite Rudkus, a young sixteen-year-old and her family have immigrated to the United States of America in search of the American Dream of riches and comfortable living. The story begins with Jurgis and Ona’s wedding and the dread that was already set in their minds of how they will afford paying for everything. The

The Rain Forest      The destruction of the rainforest is a problem that the people of the world can not continue to ignore. 14 percent of the Earth's land used to be covered by rainforests yet this number has dropped significantly to only about 6 percent (http://www.ran.org/ran/info_center/index.html). Rainforests provide the people of the world with many necessities, some of which would no longer be available if rainforests did not exist. In the last 50 years, rainforests have declined

It was a time of economic growth, and industrialization but also had high percentages of poverty mainly in urban environments. The majority of the immigrants intended to advance out west but actually settled in the eastern cities. In the book The Jungle, Jargis and his

When Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle was published in February 1906, it provoked outrage among the American public and prompted much needed legislative reform within America’s meatpacking industry. Responding to public pressure, President Theodore Roosevelt launched a government investigation. The ensuing report, “Conditions in the Chicago Stock Yards,” confirmed many of Sinclair’s accusations and quickly led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. However

and centered on immigrant life in the Chicago meat packing district. “The Jungle,” was written by Upton Sinclair, a 27 year old author from Baltimore under a $500 advance from a socialist newspaper. This novel soon became a focus of controversy and change within the United States. Though known more for it’s horrific portrayal of the conditions inside slaughterhouses, only 60 pages of the 413 pages that make up “The Jungle” detail the goings-on of the meat packing industry.Sinclair’s book was intended