The Jungle Book 2

It's hard to review a book of such immense scope, ambition and craft. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is arguably one of the best American books of the 20th century (not so difficult a distinction to achieve, it would seem, considering the dearth of quality fiction in the latter half of said century), it's also, sadly, one of the most forgotten. Written like fiction, Sinclair's book ostensibly follows the story of Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian who, with several members of his family, come to Chicago on

The book The Jungle was introduced as a novel by Upton Sinclair was financed and published with his own money. Upton Sinclair was a famous novelist and social crusader from California. He was born on 20 September 1878 in Baltimore Md. He was the only child of Priscilla Harden and Upton Beall Sinclair. Upton Sinclair’s childhood was lived in poverty, one where his father was an alcoholic, his job as an alcohol salesman most likely contributed to his disease. And although his own family was extremely

terrible, The Jungle (FDA) Muckraking meat industries getting caught and Theodore Roosevelt making laws drawn to protect cooperation. Document 1 The living conditions in New York were horrible specially the doubled of population in 1800s. People lived in tenements, which was overcrowded, small space, no bathrooms, no kitchen, no heat, bad hygiene and no privacy. “Lodgers in a Bayard Street Tenement” depicted in a photo that is shot by a photographer and writer Jacob Riis He wrote a book called “How

THE JUNGLE BOOK The Jungle Book is a collection of short stories written by Rudyard Kipling. The stories were published in 1893-94. Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30,1865 in Bombay, India to British parents, and brought up by Portuguese ‘ayah’ (nanny) and an Indian servant, who would entertain Kipling with famous and fabulo BHATI 1

not uncommon for people to die from sickness they had gotten from eating bad meat, this is also an issue in “The Jungle” when a young family member suddenly dies one morning, “it was the smoked sausage he had eaten that morning-which may have been made out of some of the tubercular pork that was condemned unfit for export.”# Disease was also a factor for the workers, as quoted from the book “Meat and Men “Let a man so much as scrape his finger pushing a truck in the pickle-rooms, and he might have a

Once upon a time , in a land far far away , there lived 2 identical twin brothers , Phillip & William . Often referred to as Phil and Will , they were the sons of King Phillip IV & Queen Elsa making them the most royal family in all of the land . Even though Phil and Will were identical twins they were very different . Phillip , whose dark curly hair reflected his personality , was an arrogant boy who often used his charm to persuade anyone he talked to . Even at a young age Phillip was determined

such as the interior of the jungle and it's immensity, the Inner Station, and Kurtz's own twisted deeds. Coppola's heart of darkness is represented by the madness of the Vietnam War and how even to look for a purpose in it all; is itself quite mad.      It was no accident that a documentary was made on Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film, "Apocalypse Now" entitled "Hearts of Darkness- A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" since the production of the film

Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” and the Pure Food and Drug Act Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle,” gave the most in-depth description of the horrid truths about the way America’s food companies, “the only source of food for people living in the city,” are preparing the food they sell. “The Jungle” describes the terrible conditions of a Lithuanian family that moved to the US, and had to work, live, and die for the food companies in Chicago. “The Jungle” spurred a movement in the American people

this fascinating journey with an excerpt or two by Kippling himself: “Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” -The Jungle Book- “I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.”-Rudyard

How are you my lovely readers? How are you enjoying the first days of summer? Finally, I got enough brain power to write about Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake. I knew when I started this book that it would be good and weird. If you ever read Margaret Atwood's work, you would know that she writes about hyper realities and that she always has a message in her novels for her readers. In this novel her message was very clear but I will leave it for you to figure it out. But let me give you some background