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The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair is about Lithuanian immigrants moving to the United States seeking the American Dream. When they arrive, the family is faced with many hardships. Jurgis Rudkus’ family lives in an overcrowded city called Packingtown, in poverty. The Jungle tells readers about the struggles of being an immigrant in poverty and the horrors of the meat packing industry in the early 20th century. Sinclair’s goal was to make people aware of how hard immigrants had to work in terrible conditions

During my investigating of one most famous muckrakers; I found was Upton Sinclair whom I have had the privilege to get know. Sinclair has shown to be a very interesting person. Sinclair has had many challenges over his life time; from the articles and books he has written, reforms that he has set in place, makes this person very interesting. Upton Sinclair was born September 20, 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was raised in poverty but his father worked as a liquor salesman, which gave him the chance

There are more positive outcomes in from having The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair than not having it written at all. Upton Sinclair’s book was created to expose the poor working conditions of labor in the 19th century Working in industries like the meat packing company used to be like like the survival of the fittest, only the best may be able to keep their jobs in order to work so they can make a living. I find Upton Sinclair’s desire of wanted to expose muckraking quite acceptable since it

The book The Jungle, not to be confused with The Jungle Book, is a story by Upton Sinclair. It is a story that revolves around a family from Lithuania that moves to America to live out the American Dream. The protagonist of this story is a man named Jurgis Rudkus, he is an immigrant from Lithuania who comes to America with Ona,who is his fiancee, her stepmother, five children, his future brother-in-law, cousin, and with his father. They hope to be successful and thrive in America. They reach the

culture’s food. You’d think that we would protect it, make sure it’s safe to eat and all. In the 1800’s, this wasn’t a main concern regarding the meat in slaughterhouses and such, as exposed by the great muckraker Upton Sinclair. Born on September 20th, 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland, Upton Sinclair led an interesting life. As a child he grew up in poverty under the parenting of an alcoholic father and very conservative mother. He attended and graduated from the City University of New York at the age

When Upton Sinclair spoke about his book, The Jungle, he said "I aimed at the public 's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." (v). Never a truer word was spoken. The Jungle is the story of an immigrant family who arrived in Chicago looking for a better life only to suffer harsh living conditions as well as dangerous working conditions in the meat packing factory, where they were employed. The Jungle also brought attention to the unsanitary practices under which the meat was processed

which those at the top succeed with abundance at the severe expense of those left with nothing at the bottom. The book’s author, Upton Sinclair, sought to show America the cost of its capitalist system. Born into a poor family with wealthy relatives, Sinclair was aware of social and economic disparity in America from a young age (The Jungle v). The Jungle is the result of Upton Sinclair working undercover for seven weeks in Chicago’s meatpacking industry in 1904, as well as the socialist

was that they were not use to anyone thinking the way Upton did he was more worried about how the people were living instead of being happy then him having a job. At the time of the creation of the book people were scared of labor unions because they did not want change. The reason why they didn't want change was because they wanted to have a job, so they called a great book from a great author a socialist because he had a different opinion. Upton Sinclair was pretty radical though with is the only

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair was an American writer whose works reverts not only the inside but also the socialists view on things. Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was born into a family which held to its Southern aristocracy in everything that was done. When Sinclair was ten years old, the family packed up and moved to New York City as there were more opportunities to succeed. The Jungle is both a judgment on and a profit of its own times. Those times most precise

Upton Sinclair was a well-known novelist from California. He and two other journalists, Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens, were pioneers of a different kind of journalism known as “muckraking.” He was best-known for his novel, The Jungle, published in 1906. The novel uncovered the unfair and unsanitary conditions of the Chicago meat packing industry. In 1904, the editor of the socialist journal, Appeal to Reason, Fred Warren, gave Sinclair the permission to write a novel about immigrant workers in