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Mikayla Peri Ms. Maxwell English III 10. Feb. 2015 Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair, the most influential writer regarding the food industry was born in Baltimore 1879. Growing up in a poor family with an alcoholic father was difficult for Upton (Simkin, John). Upton often lived with his wealthy grandparents during his childhood due to the instability in his own home. Moving from his poor parents house to his grandparents rich house constantly made him see the injustice in the American society, this

characterization. The author, Upton Sinclair gives many examples of these afflictions, which are caused by their working conditions. The three most prominent characters Jurgis, Ona, and Marija have experienced different types of tribulation. They are pushed to work like slaves with no leniency, which exacerbates their physical and mental beings. Each have been hurt in some shape or form, because they’ve been dehumanized. This leave great consequences to the family. Upton Sinclair shows dehumanization

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle was published in 1906 and was an eye-opening revelation of the workingman’s experience in the Chicago stockyards. Sinclair describes the horrible work conditions the workers endured and the unsanitary ways in which the meat was made and processed. Sinclair uses an immigrant family from Lithuania to help bring attention to the hardships and unfairness that the working class had to go through. One of the main problems that Sinclair makes evident in Packingtown is poverty

Upton Sinclair, best known for his works The Jungle and Boston, was an activist writer whose popularity peaked in the early and mid-1900’s. Heavily influenced by the Socialist economic philosophy, Sinclair chose to focus his artistic talents on “the plight of workers in the meatpacking industry” (Biography.com). Publishing his first novel in 1901 and attaining a Pulitzer Prize in 1943, for a later novel, Dragon’s Teeth; Sinclair’s talents and writings have transcended generations. A turbulent life

audience is human compassion or empathy, to inspire action or change, and to bring about a deeper understanding of the world. Both writer Upton Sinclair’s fiction writing “The Jungle” and the non-fiction writing “The Harvest Gypsies” by John Steinbeck inform the reader of the difficulties faced by immigrants and migrant workers. However while the author of “The Jungle”, Upton Sinclair, uses descriptive details that show the plight of the immigrants, it is the deeper understanding of the difficulties faced

Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, portrays the plight of immigrants in the meatpacking district of Chicago. The idealistic American Dream seems to be that of a fiction novel as Jurgis Rudkas loses his way in the corrupt streets of Chicago. Although, Upton Sinclair reveals that it is not the fault in America, but the faults of capitalism that is the source of pain for immigrants. The Jungle, in nature depicts the harsh realities of immigrant life, however it is fictional in that Upton Sinclair shapes

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

to complications of childbirth. The most impactful moment is when Jurgis found out his son Antanas drowned. These events caused Jurgis to stop believing in the American dream and change form a peaceful hard working father into a violent criminal. Upton Sinclair uses symbolism and imagery to describe how Jurgis changes throughout the novel. Before all this happened to him Jurgis was a loving father and wanted to

the demand. When The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was published in 1906, which revealed the stomach turning ways of the meat packing companies, it caused the people to become enraged. In The Jungle, he uses disturbing visual imagery to describe the filthy conditions of the meat packing industry in Chicago during the progressive era, in order to get the public’s attention, henceforth gathering the public along his side to fight for better health codes. In The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, he uses the idea of

The Jungle The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is about a Lithuanian family living in Chicago in the 1900’s. They had faith in the American dream, hoping to start a new and successful life. Unfortunately they were deprived of they hopes and dreams. They were placed in the middle of a society where only the strongest and richest survived. The rich keep getting richer and the poor get even poorer. Jurgis and his family went to extreme lengths just in hopes of finding a job, they were forced to travel