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 a lot to revolutionize the way we view food and how it it is handled, sanitized and distribution of these products. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is still notorious present day for its shocking revelations about food, but while discussing these things it would only be equitable to go back to the life of the very author himself while going into broad extent of the novel and how that impacted the regulatory laws.
“Sinclair is the most famous of the muckrakers who in the 1900s exposed widespread corporate and political malfeasance” (Greenspan, n.p.). Unlike many other journalist muckrakers, Sinclair took a different approach, by writing novels based on the true findings from his many interviews with the public. He disclosed many of his books like a journalist. “For The Jungle, twenty six year old Upton Sinclair spent a total of seven weeks …show more content…
By revealing the hardships of the Rudkus family he was hoping to shed light on the treatment of immigrant workers and how they went through what he calls “ Wage slavery”. Wage slavery is when someone's livelihood depends on their income so a hand to mouth existence. Now when Sinclair was hoping to draw attention to the poor workers instead the public paid more attention to the descriptive details of the food. When people heard the words rotten meat, or how meat was filled with dirt, sawdust, and rat droppings, jaws across the nation
“Sinclair is the most famous of the muckrakers who in the 1900s exposed widespread corporate and political malfeasance” (Greenspan, n.p.). Unlike many other journalist muckrakers, Sinclair took a different approach, by writing novels based on the true findings from his many interviews with the public. He disclosed many of his books like a journalist. “For The Jungle, twenty six year old Upton Sinclair spent a total of seven weeks …show more content…
By revealing the hardships of the Rudkus family he was hoping to shed light on the treatment of immigrant workers and how they went through what he calls “ Wage slavery”. Wage slavery is when someone's livelihood depends on their income so a hand to mouth existence. Now when Sinclair was hoping to draw attention to the poor workers instead the public paid more attention to the descriptive details of the food. When people heard the words rotten meat, or how meat was filled with dirt, sawdust, and rat droppings, jaws across the nation