Meat Inspection Act

character in the book is Jurgis Rudkus and he is from the Lithuanian countryside. It first starts off with the wedding of Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite, and it introduces tiny problems that the guests have with the wedding feast, especially in the meat. Furthermore, in Lithuanian weddings, the hosts would never let one

Evil, bitter, jaundice, inhumane, brutal, unjust and cynical may appear as a harsh description, but does not begin to trace the topic that Sinclair Sinclair addresses phenomenally in his life altering novel, The Jungle. Exposed to dichotomies from birth in 1878, Sinclair was raised an only child on the verge of poverty by his father- an alcoholic liquor salesman- and strong willed mother, though they visited wealthy family in the upper class. Growing to actively enjoy difficult literature from early

There were those who made the tins for the canned meat; and their hands, too, were a maze of cuts, and each cut represented a chance for blood poisoning. Some worked at the stamping machines, and it was very seldom that one could work long there at the pace that was set, and not give out and forget himself

the “American Dream”, that their hard work will be rewarded with wealth and stability. But they soon find out that this dream is as hollow and shallow as the hearts of the men they worked for. Sinclair proves how sinful Capitalism is, between selling meat coated in disease and forcing small children into

job sweeping blood and innards from slaughtered cattle through a drain. Jurgis doesn’t love this but it put bread on the table. The packinghouses are dirty and unsanitary places where every part of the animal is used to make a profit. Often, spoiled meat will be marked as good and sent out for sale. Many of the old or rotten pieces of animals are sold.. In some of the factories, dead rats are added

and meat packing factories were atrocious. According to Sinclair in The Jungle, the workers in these factories were to pickle or smoke spoiled meat and cut off the contaminated parts. The meat that had been dropped was picked up and put back in the grinder as if nothing happened at all. If a whole ham is spoiled to the point it smelled the workers were to chop it up with other meats and pour chemicals to smother the pungent odor oozing off the meat. Rats overrun storage rooms where the meat is kept

industrialization. Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, got a lot of people thinking about the meat processing industry and how sanitary

Taking place during the early 1900’s in Packingtown, the center of a meatpacking industry in Chicago, The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair is based upon the evils of capitalism. Told from the perspective of an unknown narrator, the novel greatly focuses on the protagonist, Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant who comes to America with his wife, Ona Lukoszaite and several other relatives. Sinclair’s main reason in writing this was to get information out into the public eye about the awful things

Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr., was an American writer in the early and mid 1900’s. Having written over 100 novels none have stood the test of time and secured Sinclair's legacy other than “The Jungle.” Having exposed the terrible conditions of the meat industry, “the Jungle” managed to “secure [the] passage of the country's first Pure Food and Drug laws”(Arthur, n.d.). Although much emphasis is put on the novel, not many know about it’s author, Sinclair, and how his upbringing/education, personal

sick from the unhealthy living conditions in the town, but being sick is not in their budget. Ona gives birth later falling sick, Jurgis springs his ankle, which forces him to be off work, and their youngest child dies from consuming some of the bad meat produced by a local