Upton Sinclair

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair illustrates many aspects and undoubtedly corrupt topics of modern life- even though it is a nonfiction book of the 1900 's. One of these many horrifying topics is Prostitution and human trafficking. Throughout the modern world human trafficking is abundant but hidden to the every day person, Prostitution and human trafficking is a dreadful oppression that breaks up families and the results on a person can be devastating. Alma is a young Filipina women who is a…

today, but humans have settled into a single life without first seeing what else there is to do, and the pain of not knowing what the world has to offer can cause dissatisfaction among people from doing the same thing over and over again. Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis, shows some of the effects that doubting one’s own life may lead to. Babbitt was dissatisfied with his current life, but after going out and doing…

writes about. The events during the lifetime of Upton Sinclair influenced his writing enormously. During the 1900’s the working conditions of the meat-packing industry were very harsh. Many workers were injured and many were even killed. Countless Americans at this time were not aware of the terrible conditions the workers were going through. Along with this, Americans were also not aware of the lies the meat-packing plants were telling them. Upton Sinclair wrote the novel The Jungle to expose…

Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle, was a realist writer born in 1878. He endured many hardships in his life, which led to him becoming a complex person. He based many of his characters off of himself. This caused his works to be filled with complex characters as well as critical views of the capitalist American society. These traits of realism are prominent in Sinclair’s writing and life. Upton Sinclair suffered through an unstable childhood as well as independence at an early age,…

written a book on the process of meat packing plants that begs the question (Fast Food Nation). His work bears a remarkable similarity to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle written almost one hundred years ago. Schlosser wrote his book from a different approach but contains shocking information of how our meat is still processed today. He is rightly known as the Upton Sinclair of today. Schlosser went on a meat packing tour and explored the meat packing plant for himself (169). At the time of his…

Catt,”Address to Congress on Women’s Suffrage,” “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair, and “What is Rhetoric?” are examples of well used rhetoric to strengthen their claim and arrange…

most well-known members was writer Upton Sinclair. Sinclair began reading a widely-published socialist newspaper called Appeal to Reason and decided to join the Socialist Party of America in the summer of 1904. It was then that Sinclair chose to abandon…

crisis one must first acknowledge its existence. Out of many individuals who recognize the crisis, there are four different authors who proudly acknowledge the presence of crisis; most importantly, social crisis. These authors are Karl Marx, Upton Sinclair,…

and can cause a negative effect on earth. This statement is not absolutely true in some ways. I disagree with the above statement and two works literature that help me support my thoughts are Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. In the Chinua Achebe's novel he uses characterization to centralize his genre work. Before the weekly competition begun, the chief demanded the nine villages to choose one as candidature to nominate the winner. However, was the previous…

Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1906 during the Progressive Era (1890-1920). In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century a vast rift between the upper and middle/working class began to develop. As a result of this growing division, a group of activists stood up for the voiceless society. These people were known as “progressives”. The progressives believed that Social Darwinism was immoral and that government should provide solutions to the social and economic problems of the…