Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair, the famous American author, wanted to be a great influence on society. He was born in 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland, from a family of Southern aristocracy. His father was an alcoholic and his mother came from a wealthy family. When Sinclair was ten, the family moved to New York. His father sold hats and spent his evenings in bars coming home drunk every night. As a child, Sinclair was an excellent reader and scholar. By the age of fourteen, he began writing in his spare time.

Sinclair emphasizes that the downfall of Jurgis and the family was caused by capitalism and pursuing the American dream. Sinclair is addressing readers who wonder why Jurgis has adopted these new values and why many people scam and cheat system. Now in my opinion, he is trying to put you in their shoes, to ask yourself if you would push through, even when your best isn’t enough. This is the best way, if not the only way, to survive the jungle. Sinclair writes about how Juozapas was digging in the

written carried more power than ever before, and writers, especially Upton Sinclair and Ida B. Wells, were using their skills to expose certain companies and social groups who had hidden atrocities. These writers held more power than what they thought as their works are still recognized today. Upton Sinclair is most known for his criticisms of the meat packaging industry in his book The Jungle. For close to 2 months, Sinclair worked in a Chicago meat package plant in order to expose the hidden

leading to the inevitable evolution of the challenges immigrants face after arriving to a new country. The analyzation of immigration literature gives readers valuable insight into the lives of immigrants and the hardships they face. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair follows the lives of a Lithuanian immigrant family in the early 20th century as they strive to attain success by working in the meatpacking industry of Packingtown, Chicago, while Good Enough by Paula Yoo is set in the 21st century as first-generation

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

in Packingtown, the meatpacking district of Chicago. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle portrays life through the eyes of a poor workingman struggling to survive in this cruel, tumultuous environment, where the desire for profit among the capitalist meatpacking bosses and the criminals makes the lives of the working class a nearly unendurable struggle for survival. The novel The Jungle is a hybrid of history, literature, and propaganda. Sinclair, a muckraking

Upton Sinclair and the Chicago Meat-packing Industry In 1900, there were over 1.6 million people living in Chicago, the country's second largest city. Of those 1.6 million, nearly 30% were immigrants. Most immigrants came to the United States with little or no money at all, in hope of making a better life for themselves. A city like Chicago offered these people jobs that required no skill. However, the working and living conditions were hazardous and the pay was barely enough to survive

to them on a more relatable basis. Primary sources are also very reliable because the author of a book or newspaper article, for example, was actually there. So they have all the evidence they need for what is being documented. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, is a primary source because Jurgis actually went through the hard labor conditions that occurred in the Progressive Era (1900-1916). The Jungle puts a face to the issues of grueling work hours, poor working conditions, unbearable living arrangements

the Gilded Age, Upton Sinclair wrote nearly a hundred books in his lifetime. From a young age his mother encouraged in him a love of reading; when he could, Sinclair would read for up to fourteen hours a day. However, his childhood was also marked by poverty and by his father's raging alcoholism. His mother took a strong sense of morality against his father’s drinking and of all types of sinning. These strict morals implanted in him made the socialist party very appealing. Sinclair was willing to

Simon Apodaca L.A. 10 12/17/17 The Jungle Summary The Jungle is a novel written in 1906 by Upton Sinclair. It is about a man named Jurgis Rudkus and his wife Ona Lukoszaite who have recently immigrated from Lithuania to chicago. They decided to move to a part called Packingtown were at the time most immigrants moved their. Packingtown is a ruthless, dangerous place. They are known for the meat packing in that town. They decide to have their wedding at a saloon somewhere in Packingtown. They then