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Who is Upton Sinclair? A novelist and a political writer. I am also referred as Muckrakers, reform-minded American journalists who wrote magazines or books during Progressive era. What inspires to write? Best novel? My involvement in socialism motivated me to write. I am well known because of my novel “The Jungle”. Why did you wrote The Jungle? The working conditions in the past was not good at all. Just to expose (or you can say) highlight the terrible working conditions in the meatpacking

Upton Sinclair was not only an activist; he was a journalist, a politician, and a writer. Born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 20, 1878, to father Upton Beall Sinclair Sr. and mother Priscilla Harden Sinclair, Sinclair Jr. was a creative child. Growing up in a house where his father was a liquor salesman, he grew up in poverty. However, he got to enjoy the spoils of the rich due to his, religiously strict, mother’s family. At the age of 10, Sinclair’s family moved from Baltimore to New York where

The major issues Sinclair addressed in The Jungle are Capitalism. The explosive growth of American industry in the late nineteenth century caused a similar expansion in the work force. Working conditions in the new urban industrial zones were wretched, and a progressive reform movement soon grew out of the need to address the health and welfare of the American worker. In 1905, Upton Sinclair (1878–1968), a young socialist journalist and novelist, received a $500 advance to write a novel about abuses

Upton Sinclair was a popular and prolific American author, who wrote nearly 100 books. His work was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. He was born in Maryland on September 20, 1878, and died in New Jersey on November 25, 1968. Sinclair's parents were poor but his grandparents were wealthy. This opportunity to live in two social settings gave him insight into how both the rich and poor lived during the late 19th century. This contrast greatly influenced his writing and set the stage

Upton Sinclair published his novel, The Jungle, in 1906 using elements of naturalistic fiction, with the idea that ordinary people cannot overcome the system, to convey his political agenda. He did this by writing about a fictional family that comes to Chicago from Lithuania with the promise of guaranteed work where they “might earn three roubles a day” and be “rich m[en] in the bargain” (Sinclair 24-25). He used the meatpacking industry to show the extreme affects a large scale industry can have

School has to offer: AP US History. From what I learned, Sinclair was a muckraker who sought to reform society from social ills through his exposes. Consequently, The Jungle became a catalyst for cleaner, safer food production. Nonetheless, after completing Sinclair's novel, it was evident that Sinclair's purpose was not to criticize the condition of the meat in the slaughterhouses. Instead, The Jungle was written to condemn, what Sinclair thought to be, two social ills of

This article is about Tesco who was accused to sustain murder of Amazon rainforest by selling meat products that was stolen form the jungle. After few years of investigation, Greenpeace found that the meat was imported to different places like UK’s chain. The complained by Greenpeace proposed that the Brazilian supplier (JBS) causes the meat production to supplies to Tesco from illegally land. Meat products includes “corned beef, tinned mince and steak chunks” and this is all originated from area

The Jungle Book Report In Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Sinclair introduces several issues that were going on in the Progressive Era and after. During the Progressive Era, Sinclair wanted to improve society somehow and to open the people's eyes about what was really going on, this is called muckraking. He wrote about problems that the working society went through year round and somehow described them nastier. The main character in the book is Jurgis Rudkus and he is from the Lithuanian countryside

     Rights and responsibilities in the meatpacking industry      In the early twentieth century, at the height of the progressive movement, “Muckrakers” had uncovered many scandals and wrong doings in America, but none as big the scandals of Americas meatpacking industry. Rights and responsibilities were blatantly ignored by the industry in an attempt to turn out as much profit as possible. The meat packers did not care if poor working conditions

In the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, the author shows the way immigrants were treated in America and how terrible it was. Before most immigrants came, they believed that they can make it in the new world. In America, they could get a new job, be free from religious prosecution, get a house, and live a happy life. But problems for these families started before they even got to America. On the trip over to America they had to ride a steerage which gave many people disease which could lead to death