The Jungle Book

Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair is not only an accomplished writer that wrote nearly one hundred books based on events that took place during the twentieth century, but a man who has improved and solved many problems within the United States. He exposed the problems within the meat packaging industry, which led to the creation of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. These things would not have been possible without his motivation, preparation, and accomplishments. With this…

recognition of his 1904 novel, The Jungle “I aimed for the public's heart, and by accident I hit the stomach instead”. A socialist, and muckraker railed for public outcry of labor equity. He launched a consumer movement through the midst of a harsh stockyard strike from unfairly payed wage workers, socialist writer Upton Sinclair visited Chicago’s “Packing town” region which contributed to copious array of material that later turned into his best-selling novel, The Jungle. This book details the…

and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.” One of the main characteristics of the jungle is that the powerful (the rich) is powerful thanks to the weak (the poor); the law of the jungle, the law of the strongest. Upton Sinclair calls “The Jungle” the socio-economic reality that the city of Chicago is going through at the beginning of the 20th century. In the jungle, Sinclair dismantles this myth by attacking the foundation of the American dream itself. Sinclair…

unhealthy food. The two texts, from Uptain Siclair “The Jungle” (1906) and Eric Schlosser “Fast Food Nation” (2011) report the abomination that happen in the 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…

and life. One muckraker who was significant to the Progressive Era was Upton Sinclair who wrote the book "The Jungle" in 1906. He began research for his novel and investigated human conditions of stockyards in Chicago where he discovered terrible and extremely unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry which he went on to write about in his book. When President Theodore Roosevelt read The Jungle, he was sickened by what went on.…

published his book, “The Jungle”. This story was about Jurgis Rudkus and his family. Immigrants came to America in search of a job and many of these immigrants worked in the meat-packing plants of Chicago. The people working in these industries had to go through difficult working conditions, poverty and hunger, people were taking advantage of them, as well as politicians who passed laws that supported this. This story reflected the reality that some people were facing. After the book was…

In the Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses figurative language at the beginning and end of chapters two and three to show the difference between Jack’s jungle and Simon’s jungle, and to illustrate that Jack’s jungle is chaotic, whereas Simon’s jungle is innocent. Since there is no adult figure on the island, the children first establish the leader of the group, which ended up being Ralph because he summoned everyone together by using a conch. Jack was immediately destroyed by the results of…

The novel “Lord of the flies” obviously takes place in a jungle and in Foster ideology he writes that the jungle and all in the jungle means more to the story than we first read. One of the examples I visuals more is when the boys climb up a mountain, in the novel the author say “They were high up..” After climbing the mountain the boys realized…

In the novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, the author criticizes the meatpacking industry during the nineteenth century and uses vivid imagery to display horrible living conditions of the people in that time. The Jungle was a book that truly showed the the migrant workers in the factories who were in poor working conditions and put anything in meat as long as they did not get in trouble. This brought many unsanitary conditions in and outside the factories. In the novel The Jungle, Upton Sinclair…

sinclair's the novel ”The Jungle has to do with the rudkins family and their civilization.” And the struggle they had in their life. They used to live in lithuania because it was terrible for them,so they decided to come to america to have a good like maybe a little of work and half it was because they need the money.But then they got a home for them selve with the whole family.So the whole story pretty much was like an aweful and a good one at the same time. In the book of the jungle it talks…