Meatpacking

The Jungle In Upton Sinclair’s story The Jungle, the progressive era and struggles within are vividly narrated through the characters. To illustrate, Jurgis Rudkus, the main character from which the story takes perspective represents the common working man in general. However, as the story progresses he becomes conscious and acknowledges his duty for social responsibility and fights for equality of the majority. Furthermore, Ona represents the weak side of the woman while Marija the strong, but…

social injustices created by the unfair working conditions, the quality of various products, and the overall fall of “The American Dream”. He spent several weeks in Chicago walking the streets trying to finding out the most he could about the meatpacking industry, “Sinclair spent seven weeks in Chicago living among and interviewing the stockyard workers and studying conditions in the packing plants”(Woodress). McEwen further shows that Sinclair spent much time and effort actually writing.…

Working is never as easy as it seems to be. People from the years before us have struggled with work labor as well. Whether if it’s from looking for jobs, job layoffs, or unfair management, labor and business have always been difficult. In the story “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair employment is something they do not play around with. Sinclair states that “...Monday morning they will every one of them have to be in their places.. If one of them be a minute late, he will be docked an hour’s pay,…

The Jungle During the 1880-1910 times, a lot of tragic events occurred relating to urbanization, industrialization, and immigration. Workplace safety, treatment of immigrants, and child labor were events that changed America as a whole the worst way possible. Numerous of areas in the United States were settled as a trading post and transportation routes. As the industries and technology improved, cities in America became the center of products. Cities grew in populations and in size. Countries…

143). In actuality, the novel highlighted the difficulties they faced living in filth while struggling to rise up in a grueling America. Upton Sinclair, a muckraker, wrote the The Jungle to highlight the poor working conditions in the country’s meatpacking industry. Truthfully, Sinclair illustrated how capitalism destroyed one family’s American Dream, chronicled…

immigrants moved to America with hopes that they could live freely and work to have a better life. The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair, is about a Lithuanian family who worked in the Chicago Stockyards and discovered the true horrors of working in the meatpacking plants. The theme in Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, reveals how much damage capitalism caused and the effect that capitalism had on people. As the main character goes throughout life, he is constantly being set back by capitalism.…

Jurgis, his father Antanas, Ona, her stepmother Teta Elzbieta and her six children, Teta’s brother Jonas, and Ona’s cousin Marija Berczynskas all tag along for the journey. Upon arrival they quickly find work and prosperity. Jurgis finds work in the meatpacking plant and the other men also secure work. Speaking little English the family is tricked into buying a house with hidden cost and take out a loan for furniture they will never be able to pay off. As time passes Ona and Jurgis finally…

President Roosevelt invited Sinclair to the White House to discuss The Jungle after reading it. Roosevelt’s turned to the Agriculture Department, which reported that meatpacking was carefully inspected and meat was safe to eat. Roosevelt initiated his own investigation, where he selected a special commission to examine Chicago’s slaughterhouses. In the course of the investigation, commissioners observed a slaughtered…

Propaganda in “The Jungle” The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a novel exploiting the lives of Lithuanian immigrants in Chicago during the Industrial Revolution of the early 19th century. The immigrants have a goal of achieving the American dream, and as the story goes on they are faced with the horrors of the meat packing industry. Upton Sinclair is a yellow journalist and muckraker during the progressive era, therefore the story is bound to have exaggeration in order for him to succeed in…

In this chapter the author talks about the life in the U.S. in the early 1900s. The struggles poor families had faced. The chapter talks about how meat factories back then, had a lot of irregularities in the work place. How employees didn't followed any sanitate rules. Factories back then didn't provide tools for the employees. Also according to the chapter “ There was no place for the men to wash their hands before they ate their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them in the water…