The Jungle

In the Labor Union, many workers advocated for improvements of working conditions. In an excerpt by Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” describes the disgustingness of meatpacking industry and the horrendous conditions the workers had to be in. Workers had to work at least 16 hours of labor a day under dreadful working conditions, while being paid low wages. On top of that, many workers would lose limbs while working; workers would lose their lives at work. The majority of the workers would be children

the majority of early literature, women are portrayed as inane, lofty characters that add little to nothing to the overarching plot. However, in some novels published at the crack of the twentieth century (namely The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Jungle) portray female characters that enrich narratives and catalyze change throughout each page. Whereas The Picture of Dorian Gray utilizes Sibyl Vane’s innocent personality to further Dorian’s pathway to evil, The Jungle’s Miss Henderson’s evil furthers

Upon reading Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle, it can easily be seen that there were numerous injustices occurring within the early 1900s Chicago government. He wrote the book in 1906 after spending six months gathering research on the lives of poor, low class, immigrant families. With this information, he published his first book, The Jungle, through which he displays the hardships a immigrant family faces when they move to America. He chose the meat packing industry in the city of Chicago as his

among the working class. This made him the perfect candidate to go undercover to investigate conditions in the Chicago stockyards in 1905. This seven-week investigation was published in the socialist weekly Appeal to Reason, and later as the novel The Jungle in 1906. Sinclair intended that the novel would create a public outcry against big business in favor of the exploited and poorly treated immigrant workers in the meatpacking industry. However, the novel had the unintended effect of helping bring

In 1906’s The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, we are introduced to a family from Lithuania lead by Jurgis Rudkus, a young man of the age of twenty-six. Jurgis along with his love Ona Lukoszaite Rudkus, a young sixteen-year-old and her family have immigrated to the United States of America in search of the American Dream of riches and comfortable living. The story begins with Jurgis and Ona’s wedding and the dread that was already set in their minds of how they will afford paying for everything. The

Battles over power are constantly fought in societies. Inevitably, one group will find a way to rise up and assume authority over the others.As exemplified by Upton Sinclair in The Jungle, economy in twentieth century America was determined by power struggles between the wealthy capitalists and the impoverished proletariat. On a more individual level, the character of Jurgis is portrayed with the unceasing desire to free himself from the power of others and in turn gain power for himself. From

A sickly breeze slithers around the corner of a long brick building and pulls bits of paper and trash into its wickedly spiraling game. Grey fog, twisting and warping into grotesque patterns, oozes up from the dank stream of sewage that floats lazily down the gutters of the stone-made road. A hunchbacked old man trundles through the mist, the collar of his tattered jacket clenched tightly around his face to ward off the slight autumn chill of the brisk morning air. He hardly slows at the sound of

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair exemplifies a muckraking style in its often gory depictions of life in a meat packing factory, Sinclair writes of how the meat packing industry exploits its workers, many of whom are uneducated and poor in the same way a capitalist government exploits it's working class. Sinclair uses Symbolism in terms of physical objects, Objects that serve a metaphorical purpose, and oppressive tone, to persuade the reader that Capitalism leads to the declination and corruption of

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The story “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair is somewhat of a declaration of attention towards the matters of sociopolitical issues, capitalism, political corruption, and the depravedness of corporate personnel, corporatism, and industrialism; it inspires progressivism in its strong and thought-provoking messages and lives by its title. The story is about a recently married Lithuanian couple – Jurgis and Ona, and their ten other siblings who all come to America, as immigrants

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle      Many immigrants are moving to the United States in the early 1900’s with the hopes of living the “American Dream.” However, that glittering American lifestyle is merely a distant ideal for the immigrants living in Packingtown, the Lithuanian meatpacking district of Chicago. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle portrays life through the eyes of a poor workingman struggling to survive in this cruel environment, where the desire for profit among the capitalist meatpacking