Rubyfruit Jungle

Over 75 million acres of planet Earth’s land belongs to the tropical rainforest. (Rainforests Facts the Nature Conservancy) The rainforest is home to many different species, which includes monkeys, snakes, birds, rodents, frogs and lizards. (Earth Floor: Biomes) Many things contribute as threats to this environment. Instead of having such a beautiful and vast area of nature, humans mostly contribute to having it otherwise. The rainforest has much to offer for today’s modern society; everything…

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a book about meat production, and so much more. The Jungle follows the fictional story of Jurgis Rudkus' family, who are Lithuanian immigrants trying to make a living in Chicago. Throughout the book they are exposed to the nauseating work conditions of the Chicago meatpacking industries, corrupt politicians, and many more challenges. Jurgis constantly faces the problems that the American capitalist society has brought upon him and at the end of the book he is…

City of God Analysis The audience is introduced to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro through the eyes of a panicked chicken escaping his own death. Right away, the cinematography and editing of the film is notable. Cidade de Deus (City of God) (Fernando Meirelles, Brazil, 2002) portrays the effects of organized crime in slums of Brazil supported by poverty, crime and drugs. It focuses on how these hardships influence the paths of two young boys. Li’l Dice (Douglas Silva)—later takes on the persona…

The American Dream How hard do you have to fight to get what you deserve? Jurgis Rudkus is one of the two characters that will soon find out. He is the main character in the novel called The Jungle that is written by Upton Sinclair. James Braddock is the other character that goes through a fight to be successful. He is the main character in the movie/book of Cinderella Man. Throughout the novel and the movie, the physical, relationship and emotional traits of both Jurgis Rudkus and James…

as a worker and went into the packing plants to gain firsthand knowledge of the life and work in Packingtown. After the 7 weeks he went home to New Jersey and shut himself up in a small cabin and wrote for 9 months. Sinclair’s book was titled The Jungle to reflect his view of the cruelty he saw in the meat-packing industries. The story was based on Jurgis Rudkis, a young man who immigrated to Chicago recently. Jurgis got married and bought a house on credit. He got a job as a “shoveler of…

About the Author: Ben Mikaelsen Ben Mikaelsen was born in Bolivia, South America on December 8th 1952. He offended, got teased at school and at home because of a different skin color than the other kids. Ben lived a hard life and his parents were very strict and school was not his favorite part of his day. Ben’s writings started a weird way they started because of his anger. Everyone told Ben he had a very creative imagination, but his grades didn't show it. Every piece of writing he got back it…

Wilson 1 Heaven Wilson Ms. Sambol AMH 2020 30 March 2015 The Jungle In the year of 1905–1906 America was still trying to “reconstruct” and put everything in line to be a good country. You had American citizens dying including children; you had people in debt working extreme hours and in conditions to pay off. People were living in America supposedly called the “home of the free” to really the home of the worst. In the book “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair it describes exactly what was going on…

The Jungle is novel, written by Upton Sinclair, which focuses on a recently immigrated (from Lithuania) family expecting/hoping for a better life in America. Upton Sinclair was regarded as one of the most renowned muckrakers, in other words, a journalist who exposed the corruptions in either industries or individuals. His writing was during a time of progressivism and reform, where there was an abundance of individuals seeking to improve society and human conditions and dispose of capitalist…

Webster defines the word immigrant, as a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence. In the novel, The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair the word immigrant takes on a whole new meaning. The immigrants in the novel are in search of the American dream, but after arriving in America that dream becomes a nightmare. Sinclair describes the journey of the immigrant working class in the meatpacking industry as “wage slavery”. “Sinclair writes that the immigrant population was "dependent…

Upton. The Jungle (New York: Signet Publishing, 1986) pp. 386. Upton Sinclair was born September 20, 1878 in Baltimore Maryland to parents Beall and Priscilla Sinclair. Growing up, he loved to read books, and started school at the late age of 10 years old. His father was an alcoholic who never kept a good job, and was always moving. After graduating in college in 1897, he focused on writing, and in 1904, went undercover to work at a meatpacking plant to research his novel The Jungle. From 1917…