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In the historical novel The Jungle, author, Upton Sinclair, composes the story of Lithuanian immigrants with aspirations of achieving the “American Dream.” Jurgis Rudkus, his lover Ona Lukosziate and her ten family members traveled to the center of Lithuanian immigration, a meatpacking industry of Chicago, known as “Packingtown.” Here it was perceived that they would establish a better living in a place professed to reward the labor of those willing to grind. However, the American dream at this…

workplace in the stockyards and factors. The novel "The Jungle", is a mixture of a multitude of aspects such as history, socialism, and promulgation. In the year 1906 Upton Sinclair, composed a historic story to bring attention to the trial and tribulations individuals had to face just to survive. While reading this story Sinclair repeatedly made the audience aware of the hardships he and his wife were subject to. Working at the stockyards did not only affect him but it affects his way in…

To resolve the hysteria, Sinclair was invited to the White House to discuss the conditions with President Roosevelt. Roosevelt then commissioned an investigation into the meatpacking plants. Later found that most of Sinclair’s claims were true and laws were made to change the food…

The novel, The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, is about the life of people working in factories in Chicago during the early twentieth century. After the first two chapters, the story begins with Ona and Jurgis' wedding in a bar in Packingtown, Chicago. Both Ona and Jurgis are Lithuanian immigrants who came to America for a better future. So far the main characters are depicted as hardworking and caring people. The story began with a happy and easy going mood, yet soon to discover the horrors of their…

Upton Sinclair purpose for writing The Jungle was to unmask and expose the disgraceful working conditions in the meat-packing industry in Chicago to bring light on the unsanitary way animals were kill to become process meat. But most of his concerns were how the meat packing industry workers were being treated. Sinclair began his story opening up with a wedding ceremony introducing the main character Jurgis Rudkus and his family from Lithuanian. Jurgis came to America believing he and his…

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair recounted one immigrant family’s failure to live the American Dream. Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite immigrated to Chicago from Lithuania in hopes of beginning a new and better life together. They “had dreamed of freedom; of a chance to look about them and learn something; to be decent and clean, to see their child grow up to be strong” (Sinclair 143). In actuality, the novel highlighted the difficulties they faced living in filth while struggling to rise up in…

August 27, 1910 Chicago, IL The meat packing industry handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock. The industries preparation of your food has always been thought to be safe to eat and good for you. Here at Upton Sinclair’s butcher house there is so many gross, unappealing, and many disgusting things that they don't want we the people to know. Their workers are the most recent immigrants and migrants for labor…

The Jungle is a book centered around the Union Stock Yards (Packingtown) of Chicago in the 20th century. The book is focused on Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian man who tries to get through a rough life in Chicago with his new wife Ona Lukoszaite. They live near the Stock Yards which is where many immigrants would go to work and don’t know much English. Jurgis gets a job there in the meat packing industry despite the filthy dangerous working conditions. The family is very dependent on his job, but…

by Upton Sinclair is a testament to a string of sickening events that occurred in America during the early 19th century. These repulsive acts were a result of the rise of Industrialization, the massive influx of immigrants making their way from various countries in order to pursue the American Dream. What these immigrants envisioned as the American Dream, was soon to become nothing more than the intoxicating fumes from all the waste set before them. In the course of the novel, Sinclair writes…

meatpacking industry in the United States. Upton Sinclair is an American writer of nearly 100 books, in 1906 became famous for his novel “The Jungle” which describe the conditions of meatpacking industry in US. On the other hand Eric Schlosser was a journalist and became famous for his book “Fast Food Nation”. Nevertheless, except the subject, those two text are completely different. Upton Sinclair wrote his novel in…