The Brass Check

The Brass Check received a lot of criticism, unsurprisingly, from the mainstream media. He personally published the book, as no book publishers would take it, even though it had a lot of potential and actually sold over 150,000 copies. Almost all media either refused to review The Brass Check or gave it a falsely negative review, charging it with falsifying facts. Large newspapers such as the New York Times wouldn’t even run advertisements for the books. Sinclair, who had tried to be as accurate

The Jungle Essay In the novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair there are many ways that different literary elements are used to explore a political or social issue. One main issue has to do with the meat packing industry and how the workers are treated. In the novel, the main character had moved to America to find work and live the American Dream but his time in America was anything but a dream. Upton Sinclair uses many literary elements in his work to show imagery, metaphors/ similes and personification

Welcome To The Jungle Sinclair's novel The Jungle, introduces a young man named Jurgis who is eager to live out the American dream, however, he finds himself fighting for his life as he takes on the inhumanity of Chicago's factory industries. Throughout the book Sinclair utilizes numerous literary devices and elements to depict the story's theme: The evil of capitalism. “Sinclair delivers a striking indictment of capitalism..” This story takes place in the twentieth century when a Lithuanian family

Christopher Phelps, ed. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005), 363 pages with related documents. The Jungle is a about a family of lithuanian immigrants that leave their hometown to come to America because they hope to make a better life for themselves, and they believe America is the place to do it. They arrive in Packingtown a city in Chicago where they are put to work in the meatpacking plants. Once there, they learned that the dreamed they had imagined is not turning

An author’s beliefs can often greatly influence their work and the responses to them. This is especially true with Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. Sinclair had prejudices that affected how The Jungle was written and how the public reacted to it. These biased opinions both added to and distracted from the purpose of the novel in many ways. The text would be much different in style and content if Upton Sinclair did not input biased opinions. Likewise, the way the public and critics reacted to The Jungle

They say, "A book is a device to ignite the imagination" and when I first saw your "Suggestions to Get You Started Reading" list, I knew The Jungle was going to be that spark. Reading The Jungle had been on my to-do list ever since I successfully completed the most vigorous course Schalick High 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,

As of 2015, immigrants make up more than 43.3 percent of the United States population. By the early 1900s 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

From the arrival of Jurgis’ family to an America that was not what they expected, to the loss of all hope in their lives, Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” shows many instances where the immigrants and workers of the industries are severely exploited. Sinclair traveled to the stockyards in Chicago in order to observe the conditions the workers lived and worked in. What he found was disturbing, disgusting, and something of major importance to the public. Sinclair then decided to write his story about

America is one of the strongest countries in the world; the reason for that is because of all the rough times that it has gone through in the past. America has gone through times of bad working conditions and child labor while also going through times of poverty. Over the course of history, authors have turned to these conditions in order to create some of the most thrilling novels. Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle is no exception to this. The novel involves the harsh realities of child labor, terrible

In the novel The Jungle, the Author Upton Sinclair writes about a failed attempt to achieve the American dream by a Lithuanian family. The story takes place in the city of Chicago in a place called Packingtown. Most immigrants like Jurgis and his family go to packingtown thinking they will be able to achieve this so called “dream” but shortly come to realize that it's impossible. While the novel's exposition prepares the reader to believe the American dream will be the main theme later detail suggest