many rapidly progressive changes to society and how people lived their lives. With this came many issues, and a plethora of writings were published to expose these hidden downsides. Two of the most prominent of these novels were “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair, a melancholy and empathetic commentary on the meat-packing industry, and the lives of those who were forced to work in it, and “Silent Springs” by Rachel Carson, which sought to expose the harmful nature of insecticides. Both of these…
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…
golden age, contrary to the fact that it was just as horrid, as it was great. During the 1800s & 1900s immigrants were being exploited and worked to death, literally. Upton Sinclair’s book “The Jungle”, is a book that exposes these horrid facts. Like the time Ona died due to the harsh conditions that the family had faced (Upton Sinclair 205). Which is why people ask, how bad were the immigrants being treated? The answer to that question is, pretty bad. There are, however, three points that show…
When it comes to writing fictional works, not many authors relived the fame and received criticism like prominent author Upton Sinclair and his work The Jungle. When writing The Jungle, Mr.Sinclair did not think he would stumble upon the conditions that lead to better regulation of labor and food distribution laws. Sinclair's novel is brought to life through the eyes of a Lithuanian immigrant by the name of Jurgis Rudkus, a meatpacker at Brown and Durnham’s meatpacking industries. The novel did…
tenements, unsafe and unsanitary food in the market and many more things. Muckrakers brought the problems to the public through writing, drawings,and pictures. These muckrakers helped come up with reforms to change for the better, like Upton Sinclair and Jacob Riis. Upton Sinclair was a muckraker who portrayed the poor conditions through writing, he wrote the book “The Jungle”. In this book he exposes the horrors of the Meat Packing Industry. He explains the process of the packing of the meat,…
Movement of Federal Food Regulation Issued in the United States Upton Sinclair, once said due to public recognition of his 1904 novel, The Jungle “I aimed for the public's heart, and by accident I hit the stomach instead”. A socialist, and muckraker railed for public outcry of labor equity. He launched a consumer movement through the midst of a harsh stockyard strike from unfairly payed wage workers, socialist writer Upton Sinclair visited Chicago’s “Packing town” region which contributed to…
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is a book filled with hope, heartbreak, poverty, and manipulation. It was an awakening to Americans all over to the adversity that the lower-class had to go through. It depicts the corruption and crime on the streets and in large food companies. This novel follows a man named Jurgis Rudkus as he and his wife Ona travel to America with their relatives during the Gilded Age. Upton Sinclair wrote this in attempt to push socialism, but instead enlightened the readers to…
The Jungle, being one of many of Upton Sinclair's novels, was published in 1906. This novel was created based on Sinclair's experience in the meatpacking industry where he learned of the life of the stockyard workers and the structure of the business. As he learned and experienced the detail of the work he found that industrialization had unhealthy standards and from the social aspect it became a public outcry. His book, The Jungle had made a social impact but did not exactly got his point…
showed the implementation and development of the Meat Inspection Act. There was a shock that shattered the calm with the publication of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” (Davidson & Lytle, 2005, p. 235). The discontent of the time was the greed of big businesses. Concern centered on how the meat packing industry operated and distributed the meats for consumption. “Sinclair told of men in cooking rooms who fell into vats and, after being cooked for days, all but the bones had gone out into the…
home ownership, raising a family, or having a good career, for example. This view of America, however, may be more fiction than fact. In The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair, views are established of an America completely opposite of the views of the incoming foreigners and even the citizens already living in the country. Upton Sinclair describes the capitalism of America being evil, an obstacle of advancement for the common American. Likewise, he promotes socialism as being good, the solution…