What kind of family would want to leave behind everything, and move to a strange far away city, that they almost know nothing about? Now just hold on a second, it might seem cool to move to a new exciting place, but that’s not the case for the Rudkus household. To them, Jurgis, Ona, and Marija, it was indeed exciting moving to Chicago in the late 1800’s, to have a chance to. They soon find out that Chicago is making things hard to make a better living, than back in Lithuania were they used to live. Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, describes how alcoholism, poverty, and people in positions of authority had a negative impact on the lives of immigrants.…
3. Sustainable plans – There are a lot of good ideas, but in order to be a successful company these ideas have to have long term footing. Without growth, the company will fail. For instance, if there is a music tool with a small music library, no one will invest.…
The Jungle was an 1906 novel written by author Upton Sinclair. The book was wrote to help portray all the harsh and inhumane living conditions. It also exploited to unsanitary conditions of the meat factories and meat packing industries…
Upton Sinclair was born on September 20, 1878, in Baltimore, Maryland, where his family had once belonged to the southern upper class but, at Sinclair’s birth, the family floated near poverty. Sinclair graduated from high school early and enrolled in the City College of New York at the age of fourteen, during his college years, Sinclair encountered socialist philosophy, and became an avid supporter of the Socialist Party. Sinclair published five books, he spent weeks in the city’s meatpacking plants, learning everything about the work itself, the lives of workers, and the business. The Jungle a biography, was then brought up from this research the first few publishers whom Sinclair approached told him that his book was too terrible, and so…
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” - Albert Einstein. For example when Hushpuppy got connected to nature she would hear a heartbeat or her mother talking to her. Another example is when Janie’s husband Tea Cake passed away, she took some seeds with her that reminded her of Tea cake and planted them. The movie “ Beasts of the Southern Wild” released in 2012 directed by Benh Zeitlin and the book , “Their Eyes Were Watching God” written by Zora Hurston published in 1937 are both natural disasters. The film “ Beasts of the Southern Wild” and the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” have some critical similarities. These include the characteristic of the protagonists, each protagonist’s relationship…
Everyone experiences discoveries differently. Discoveries can be sudden and unplanned or they can evolve from a process of careful and precise planning. They can be emotional, intellectual, spiritual or physical. Both texts Away composed by Michael Gow and Into the Wild directed by Sean Penn, demonstrate the idea that new understandings and renewed perceptions of others and ourselves can be a result of an individual discovery.…
Beast, written by, Donna Jo Napoli is a very unique and thought provoking. This book has a great deal of suspense, and stunning language. Some things in particular that make this book interesting are the Well rounded characters and complicated relationships between the character. This is a great book, with a lot of complexity, and a different way of seeing the world. Overall, Beast, is a very well written book, with great ideas.…
In Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo, Nigel Rothfels provides his insight on the primary purpose of a zoo. According to Rothfels an animal is just a consolation of people’s ideas. But even so, he discusses their historical record. The principal reason for a zoo is its aesthetic contribution to the current time. For example, Rothfels describes his encounter with viewing a beautiful liger, who was later put on display after being stuffed. However, due to the change in what viewer’s find aesthetic, the liger’s exhibit no longer remains. People find the zoo aesthetic when it is thought to be a safe place for the animals, protecting them from their dangerous habitat, rather than the idea being locked behind bars. The author compares…
Not many novels are comparable to Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear it Away. Perhaps this is due in part to her skillful composition, but O’Connor’s blunt addressal of the natural struggle between faith and reason is strikingly convicting. Raised in the south in a predominantly Catholic family, O’Connor herself was no stranger to the concepts, using her experiences to create a composition that is deeply personal. O’Connor uses the themes of faith and reason as means of bearing her true beliefs to the reader, drawing them in further to the mesmerizing work that is The Violent Bear it Away.…
“The Real Thing” and “The Beast in the Jungle” are similar in that both stories discuss the concept of someone trying to acquire something only to realize that he doesn’t actually want it. In “The Real Thing”, the artist is looking for the perfect upper class couple, while in “The Beast in the Jungle”, Marcher is looking to share the feelings of May.…
The United States’ declaration of war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor on the date that lives in infamy, December 7,1941, was an inevitable decision manifested from Japan’s occupation of Southeast Asia. The two countries’ worsened tension is delineated through the men in Judith L. Pearson’s novel about a corpsman’s service during the war and of his journey aboard Japan’s notorious hellships. Pearson, inspired by powerful stories on real life heroes, took upon herself to create a complex novel about the strength it took for men like Estel Myers to endure the adverse conditions that were thrust upon them. Through extensive research and the insight of Estel’s brother Ken, Belly of the Beast provides a valuable insight to a rarely recorded…
The Beast Within is something that is inside every person whether they are good or evil. The Beast Within as a concept varies between the different texts and forms of writing. However in Michael Parker’s thrilling first novel, Doppelganger The Beast Within is portrayed through the thoughts of a normal high school student or so he thought. Doppelganger is supported by The final report documentary because of the close relations to the internal thoughts that were going through the two crazed boys heads at the time. The Beast Within is shown when these two murderers let out their own beasts purely out of fear and revenge, this resulted in many high school students to be killed.…
The Jungle, written by: Upton Sinclair, looks under the microscope at the deplorable conditions under which the people who lived and worked at Chicago's Union Stockyards were subjected to. along with the impact those conditions had on an emigrant family from Eastern Europe. Its plot takes in the Packingtown district. During the early 20th Century the migration of European immigrants to America's Midwest was prolific. What they found was oppression, dehumanization and exploitation. Working the stockyards offered these immigrants a first glimpse at what the United States would eventually reveal. They were enticed by stories of wealth and opportunity and tired of the remnants of feudalism and classicism that existed in their homelands. The industrial revolution was still in its infancy and owners of large corporations thought themselves purveyors of the American ideal. Sinclair describes the brutal conditions that these immigrants found and the cold reality of life in the United States. This book reveals a look at an America that still has resonance today.…
In the book “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair the author gives a critique of the early twentieth century labor practices in the growing cities of the United States. It gives people an opportunity to see all the factors that were going on not only in the meatpacking industry, but also the way working people lived and all the challenges that they had to overcome to just be able to survive. It also shows how the working conditions are in the city of Chicago. It shows how workers did their tasks in unsanitary conditions. The book would say that they would be working and rats would be passing by and because they were so tired they did not care anymore.…
What societal reforms did the novel, The Jungle, purpose? What governmental reforms did the novel call for? Do you think The Jungle was effective in bringing about societal and governmental reform?…