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of history that seems to be overlooked is that of the food and meat packing industry. In an eye opening novel entitled The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, the author tells a story in which exposes the gut wrenching and shocking facts of what actually goes on in these food processing and meat packing factories in an urban Chicago during the early 1900s. Sinclair does a wonderful job at exposing what actually happened behind these factory doors and informs the reader of the unsanitary process in which

have impressed me as The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. To me this book is one of the finest books in the world. In fact this novel is so remarkable that it made history and changed the course of events. The Jungle’s excellent qualities have made it my favorite book. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle was first published in the United States in 1906. This book became an immediate success as it portrayed the corruption within American business and government. Sinclair based the novel on the American meatpacking

people were scared of labor unions because they did not want change. The reason why they didn't want change was because they wanted to have a job, so they called a great book from a great author a socialist because he had a different opinion. Upton Sinclair was pretty radical though with is the only reason why I can see them being pretty offended about him talking about the unsafe and unhealthy workplace. The description in the book are so disgusting that it is very hard to eat meat. “Jurgis could not

The lives of people who immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s were harder than they anticipated. In Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, class, racism, and sexism shape the experiences and choices of the immigrants in many ways. The Jungle was written in 1906 and the novel also takes place around that same time. Class affects the immigrants extensively throughout the book. The family that The Jungle focuses on is very poor and they do not have many opportunities because of it. They are

Gabriella Kurrus Mr. Kohler Advanced LA II Second Hour 4 October 2017 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was a novel written to display the crudeness of Chicago’s big business. It tells the life of Jurgis Rudkus, who moves to Chicago, Illinois from Lithuania. He faces many health and employment related issues in his new life. Upton Sinclair uses capitalism as a symbol of evil, and corruption, he does this by telling the health, and employment related issues Jurgis and his family have, while socialism is

In 1906, a book started taking the nation by storm. The book was titled The Jungle and it was written by Upton Sinclair, a muckraker who exposed corrupt government and business practices. He infiltrated Chicago meat packing industries and documented the exploited lives of the workers. However, more people were concerned with the unsanitary practices in the meat industry. This led to reforms such as the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. Despite the reforms that have taken place over

“How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers?” The novel, “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair can be interpreted differently by modern impoverished American immigrants/minorities and the modern American rich class. “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair is a fictional novel and was published in 1906. It was based on the lives of the individuals he observed in Chicago around that time. He discovered that the lower-working class there was doing horrific work for not enough pay

Roosevelt and Congress do something about it (Laws.com). In response, President Roosevelt commissioned labor commissioner Charles P. Neill and social worker James Bronson Reynolds to investigate Sinclair's claims. What they found was exactly what Sinclair had described (Constitutional Rights Foundation). After the President and Congress heard of these deplorable conditions, they went to work creating a law to improve the working conditions in both slaughterhouses and meat processing plants. What they

People in this story live in a very dis honest world, it's a rough life and it's almost impossible to live comfortably and make an honest living. Jurgis tried to be an honest working man but all the frauds and dishonest people around him made an influence. You see the dishonesty throughout the book cover to cover. Jurgis has several encounters with people who constantly try to cheat him out of his money or are dishonest about their intentions. You can see one encounter in the early pages of the book

form of writing was meant to stir up opinions and cause controversy between individuals in the nation, and stir up controversy it did. A few years later in 1906 a man named Upton Sinclair, a very popular muckraker, published a book called The Jungle, which focused on the style of yellow journalism. In that book, Sinclair described