The Jungle

He published The Jungle in 1906. “The publication of The Jungle awakened the American public to the dangerous practices of an unregulated food industry”(“Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.,”2008). This is an example of one of his accomplishments that improved life in the United States. This led to the…

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…

How the Government Could Create A WILD Animal The Jungle is a book that is trying to send a message to the people. That message is that America can turn people crazy. With all of the jobs and the high expenses with low wages or maybe cut wages. The immigrants having to learn to adapt to this new culture. Which is another weight on top of them while having to deal with unfair treatment. Also the government using the people for a vote, like for example a Political Machine. Government’s unstable…

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…

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…

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…

Sinclair wrote The Jungle which exposed the reality of the meat packing companies in Chicago in the early 20th century. Likewise in the food documentary Food Inc., exposes the same reality in the 21st century. Food production and labor conditions have greatly improved in the past hundred years , but there is still more that needs to be done to fix the corrupt nature of the large meat packing companies.…

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Upton Sinclair is quoted as saying “I aimed at the public’s heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach,” because his novel did not get the reception he was looking for. The Jungle was first published in a Socialist magazine called “The Appeal to Reason” in 1905. It was later published as a standalone novel in 1906. The Jungle follows the life of Jurgis Rudkus and his family after they have immigrated from Lithuania to Chicago. The novel portrays the lives of immigrants and what…

The chapter on “USDA Government Inspected” showed the implementation and development of the Meat Inspection Act. There was a shock that shattered the calm with the publication of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” (Davidson & Lytle, 2005, p. 235). The discontent of the time was the greed of big businesses. Concern centered on how the meat packing industry operated and distributed the meats for consumption. “Sinclair told of men in cooking rooms who fell into vats and, after being cooked for days,…