Rubyfruit Jungle

In the book The Jungle, Upton Sinclair depicts how the exploitation and impoverishment of the working class contribute to financial struggles. Sinclair displays this idea of the poor working class through Jurgis and his family. When moving to America, Jurgis had the intention of achieving the “American Dream.” The American Dream is known as one who comes to America and becomes very rich. Only two days after his arrival in Chicago, Jurgis is offered a job. Hundreds of people stand outside of…

Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle portrays the exploitation and abhorrent conditions that citizens experienced at the start of the United States’ Industrial Revolution. This turn of the century revolution brought about a new era of thinking, working, and living. Along with this new era also came the “American Dream” in all its glory. Unfortunately, the country failed to provide its citizens with any semblance of the dream. With these new philosophies and lifestyles, new problems also arose as…

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, is a fictional literary work that illustrates the labor conditions in the Chicago stockyards, describing the harsh realities immigrants faced and exposing the callous side of human nature. The Jungle is a depressing realization of how unregulated capitalistic corporation and monopolies treated human beings as less than human, with complete disregard for the workers' well-being. Throughout the book, Sinclair displays the struggles of an immigrant family in order…

was a mistake. After I walked for about twenty minutes, I realized that I got lost in the jungle. There was nobody, but only trees and mosquitos around me. I could not even see the sky. I was so afraid because although I walked for a while, I felt like I came back to the same place where I started. The trail that I thought I was following disappeared, and I only could see vines in front of me. I knew the jungle was small, and there is no snake or any scary animals, but I thought what if I…

Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz’s ethnography Labor and Legality uses a mixture of narrative, interviews, and observation to educate the reader about the lives of undocumented workers in the United States. Gomberg-Muñoz focuses specifically on a group in Chicago called the Lions and describes how this small group has managed to create their own culture made up of language, social structure, kinship, gender roles, and authority. Often the Lions have to navigate between three different cultures: the one they…

In this section, Schlosser takes perusers into the slaughterhouse. He discovers somebody with access to the plant who is agitated with the working conditions to give him a visit. Schlosser sees the whole horrifying procedure of steers butcher from the staggering of cows to the cutting. Critically, he watches the specialists' conditions inside. Schlosser says meatpacking is most hazardous occupation in America. A standout amongst the most perilous parts of the occupation are the blades…

Delicatessen is set in a post apocalyptic world that is suffering from a severe famine consisting of dark comedy through a number of themes, creative tones and music. Written and directed by Marco Caro and Jean-Pierre Jennet, they have created a storyline revolving around love, cannibalism vs vegetarianism and how evil can become prevalent in times of hardship. The film takes place around an apartment complex above a delicatessen, owned by a hardy butcher who displays his power status…

Arguably, no piece of literature (besides Uncle Tom’s Cabin) has been more influential than The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair. Sinclair “aimed at the public’s heart” when exposing the hardships “wage-slaves” had to endure in a capitalistic society; however, by accident, he “hit [the public] in the stomach” when the only reforms were in the meat-packing industry (What Life Means to Me). Jurgis, Sinclair’s example of a “wage-slave”, changed throughout the novel and was initially optimistic…

Chaos In The Jungle The Jungle was published in 1906 by an American novelist named Upton Sinclair. He wrote this novel to portray the harsh conditions and the abusive lives of immigrants in the United States or more specifically, industrialized cities, like Chicago. Although the book is remarkably different from an actual jungle, Sinclair created an atmosphere relatable to an actual jungle in many ways. Some include the aspects of life, risks, and deaths. A jungle is defined as a place of…

Upton Sinclair's showed the harsh reality of the lives immigrants had during the 1900s. Packingtown was a hive of corruption the moment Jurgis and his family moved to the town. The town is parasitic and feeds of the immigrant's misfortunes. “The way the bosses made the pacemakers work and other people were very dangerous for the safety of all the people. They made the pacemakers work like possessed men.” (Pg.56 P.2) The meat packing plant places the almighty dollar above the safety of the…