United States is a country of immigrants and reconstruction. For many years Americans worked very hard to improve the country’s image and to gain superiority among neighbor countries within the years. “The Jungle”‚ wrote by the American journalist Upton Sinclair tells the story of a poor family that immigrated to the city of Chicago in order to improve their financial economy. However‚ due to life conditions and lack of money their chances of surviving during the Industrial Revolution became minimum.
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In Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle‚ published in 1906‚ a sense of injustice towards the working class and need for socialism is present. Sinclair intended to illustrate the vast majority of immigrants in Chicago at the turn of the century; providing details and examples of abuses in the meatpacking industry merely as a means of demonstrating their troubles. After the publication of The Jungle‚ Sinclair stated‚ "I aimed for the public’s heart‚ and by accident I hit it in the stomach." He used those words
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Part A 1. Upton Sinclair was called a "muckraker." How did Sinclair "muckrake" for social reform? He wrote about how the process for making meat such as hot dogs and bologna was and let people know about it which led to a reform for the meat-packing industry. 2. Sinclair was convinced ".... through art one could cause change." What was established as a direct result of the public outcry from this novel? The Meat Inspection Act was a direct result of the public outcry. 3. What did the
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rodent hair. Well in the early nineteen hundreds before the Upton Sinclair exposé The Jungle you might have found more than just a hair. Without his book who would have known how long the meat packing industry would have gotten away with the atrocities they did. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair changed the way America had dinner. Although that was not his intention he tried to hit America in its heart but hit it in the stomach instead. Sinclair went into undercover research and found a lot of grotesque
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The Jungle: Critical Analysis The Jungle is a novel that focuses its story on a family of immigrants who came to America looking for a better life. It was written by muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair‚ who went into Chicago and the stockyards to investigate what life was like for the people who lived and worked there. The book was originally written with the intent of showing Socialism as a better option than Capitalism for the society. However‚ the details of the story ended up launching
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The Jungle (reading questions) 1. What is the significance of the title? What is the relationship between animals in the jungle? In this case‚ what has dehumanized the people throughout the novel into “beasts” engaged in a savage competitive struggle where the strong devour the vulnerable? 2. How are the meatpacking houses able to so thoroughly exploit those employed to process the meat? Why doesn’t Jurgis and others simply quit and go to work for another company? 3. In what ways are the employees
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THE JUNGLE: Essay In the year of 1906 Upton Sinclair published a book called THE JUNGLE‚ which takes place in Chicago. In Sinclair’s book THE JUNGLE Sinclair uses many different ways to persuade Americans to turn to socialism. Socialism is any various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. In other words socialism is when everyone has to combine the money that they’ve earned then
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journalists had the objective of educating the public about issues and persuading more people to fight for reform‚ and they did so by exposing society’s flaws through their work. One of the most key muckrakers at the time was journalist and author Upton Sinclair‚ Jr. He wrote “The Jungle”‚ a novel about the ills of the meat-packing industry. The publishing of “The Jungle” influenced the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 and the Federal Meat Inspection Act by showing what was actually going on in the
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every chapter Sinclair was pointing out a particular failure of capitalism. In his view it is inhuman‚ destructive‚ unjust‚ brutal‚ and violent. I believe Sinclair wrote the book to expose the holes and to exploit the failures of the system. He also expressed that the antidote to all the complications capitalism creates is socialism towards the end of the novel. He expresses his thesis through his characters and the trials they continuously go through throughout the novel. Sinclair shows this primarily
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Sinclair’s novel does accurately portray times and events that happened during this time period in the United States. To get this information Sinclair stayed in Chicago and investigated the issues for 7 weeks before writing the jungle. He was hired by a Newspaper to write the book. So the novel is accurate‚ but can be considered one sided because Sinclair’s took a stance on some issues with the harsh working conditions at meat packing factories and also the cleanliness of the factories. The novel
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