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A Matter of the Stomach The Jungle missed its mark. According to Upton Sinclair, he aimed at the public’s heart, but by accident he hit it in the stomach. The societal and governmental reforms called for in The Jungle were for an improvement in workers’ conditions, adjustment in the corrupt systems of law enforcement and the legal systems, and for either a socialist revolution or the dismantling of capitalism; however, despite Sinclair’s intentions, he was largely unsuccessful in bringing any of

imperialism that the United States was on the way to being a world power. However during the early 1900’s the part of history that seems to be overlooked is that of the food and meat packing industry. In an eye opening novel entitled The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, the author tells a story in which exposes the gut wrenching and shocking facts of what actually goes on in these food processing and meat packing factories in an urban Chicago during the early 1900s. Sinclair does a wonderful job at exposing

through time and meet the author of “The Jungle”, Upton Sinclair, who will help us to open our eyes how everything was chaos and improved in the Progressive Era. And in that book, we can also see many faces and colors of the social American world had back then. Thanks to Upton Sinclair, because he drew a painting about things worked in the Progressive Era, we could imagine how and live back when America was in the Progressive Era. Upton Sinclair was a muckraker who examined the rise

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

century, America experienced a large influx of European immigration. These new citizens had come in search of the American dream of success, bolstered by promise of good fortune. Instead they found themselves beaten into failure by American industry. Upton Sinclair wanted to expose the cruelty and heartlessness endured by these ordinary workers. He chose to represent the industrial world through the meatpacking industry, where the rewards of progress were enjoyed only by the privileged, who exploited

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 was a popular and prolific American author, who wrote nearly 100 books. His work was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. He was born in Maryland on September 20, 1878, and died in New Jersey on November 25, 1968. Sinclair's parents were poor but his grandparents were wealthy. This opportunity to live in two social settings gave him insight into how both the rich and poor lived during the late 19th century. This contrast greatly influenced his writing and set the stage

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair In the book “The Jungle”, Upton Sinclair writes about the life of a young couple and their family, Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite having to move to America after Ona’s father passed away which left them with little money, Jurgis decided to move his and Ona’s family to Chicago from Lithuania to pursue the American dream. Soon after, they learned that their idea of an American dream was not what they had pictured to be. The story entails the unlucky events that

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

Upton Sinclair was a prolific writer. Growing up he was very intelligent and began writing novels at an early age. Sinclair was influenced by social injustice and socialism, which encouraged him to publish The Jungle. The Jungle is a social criticism about a family immigrating from Lithuania to America in search for a better life. The main characters Jurgis and Ona are a couple from the rural countryside of Lithuania. They immigrated with their family to Packingtown, Chicago where the meat-packing