The Asphalt Jungle

has. However, the article explains many examples of how blue-collar people must constantly use their brains while on the job. Throughout this class, we have read many books that explain just how important this group of people are. In particular, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair relates to concepts in the article as well as The Coal Tattoo by Silas House. All three works describe in detail not only the brawn of the characters and their hardships, but how the…

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…

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The Jungle defines and breeds the definition of the sheer, brutality, hard work and dedication just to only have enough to provide for your family. The states of the living and 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…

few months after the release of the jungle, “Roosevelt signed a law regulating foods and drugs… the same day he signed the Meat Inspection Act.” Further inspections would be made into the food quality; however, the working conditions and laborer treatment was never properly addressed. Therefore, the fight for fair treatment continued. Despite the tragic and horrific portrayals of the conditions and treatment of workers within the meat-packing industry, The Jungle did not directly affect the…

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…

The jungle looked like a child had sploshed layers of solid blue, white and green paint on a blank canvas, the blue strip of sky, white line of sweltering bubbly clouds and a vast green canopy stretching beneath. It created a sign - a flag, the blue, white and green banner of the jungle, surmounted on high to declare the jungle’s glory and prowess, demanding dominance over any other lifeform because it’s a jungle out there. The canopy is a thick green blanket; it smothers the jungle until one…

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…

Hobos Riding the Rails In the 1930’s many who rode the rails led an exciting but dangerous life while riding the rails led an exciting but dangerous life. While riding the fails the would live in the woods called “jungles”. The hoboes riding the rails was interesting to learn about. Some interesting topics were why they rode the rails, where they lived and cooked and how dangerous it was to ride the rails. First, it is important why the hoboes had to ride the rails. During the Dust Bowl…