The Jungle was written by Upton Sinclair. The book is based around a family of immigrants from lithuania. He follows them through their harsh journey‚ and all of the terrible things life throws at them. One of the things Upton sinclair hits on throughout the book is all the corruption in america at the time. He shows throughout the whole book how bad america has become and how terrible the people where at the time. In the book The Jungle the main characters‚ jurgis and ona‚ are put through many hard
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It is an elemental odor‚ raw and crude; it is rich‚ almost rancid‚ sensual and strong." | Meat packing industry makes the reader disgusted from the detail of the odor | Parallelism | "It is a sound‚ a sound made up of ten thousand little sounds. You scarcely noticed it at first-it sunk into your consciousness‚ a vague disturbance‚ a trouble." 1`7 | This quote has to do with immigration and giving the character a more humanistic view to the reader | pathos | "Relentless‚ remorseless‚ it was; all
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It’s a Jungle Out There Upton Sinclair’s novel‚ The Jungle‚ gives a heart breaking portrayal of the hardships faced by the countless poverty stricken foreign laborers in the slaughter houses of Chicago. In the early 1900’s‚ strikes‚ riots‚ labor unions‚ and new political parties arose across the country. The government‚ with its laissez-faire attitude‚ allowed business to consolidate into trusts‚ and with lack of competition‚ into powerful monopolies. These multi-million dollar monopolies were
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The Jungle Throughout Upton Sinclair’s novel‚ The Jungle‚ the inhumane and disgusting treatment the working men and women was shown to the eyes of the American people. Although what the book is most recognized for is creating the Pure Food and Drug Act‚ an act that gave consumers protection from dangerous and impure foods‚ the many various horrors the lower working class had to go through was something that deserved more recognition. Upton Sinclair’s novel‚ The Jungle‚ gives an insight on how
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The Jungle shows how America is a land for opportunity for immigrants. It explains how harsh the conditions were for the working class in the early 1900s. How families of immigrants would travel to America just for a fresh start to a new life. It also shows how hard it was to keep a job because if you were sick for a day you could lose your job. It shows how easy it was for American business men to rip off an immigrant who could not read English. Many of the social problems were new problems
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descriptions in The Jungle. Conversely however‚ and perhaps eyebrow raising given his hostile stance on the book‚ Roosevelt used The Jungle and its descriptions to push through “The Pure Food act” and the “Meat Inspection act” of 1906 . In effect starting what we know today as the Food and Drugs Administration. The most powerful‚ legislatively body in healthcare today. Equally whilst Roosevelt was dismissive of the allegations made by Sinclair one of the main queries that Sinclair makes is the suggestion
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of The Jungle Between 1870 and 1900 Chicago grew from a population of 299‚000 to almost 1.7 million‚ the fastest-growing city ever at the time. This surge in population was largely attributed to immigrants coming from European countries seeking a chance for employment and new freedoms associated with moving to the United States at the time. 1905‚ in particular‚ was a historic year when a surge of over 1 million immigrants came to the city. During this time‚ author Upton Sinclair was working
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United States is a country of immigrants and reconstruction. For many years Americans worked very hard to improve the country’s image and to gain superiority among neighbor countries within the years. “The Jungle”‚ wrote by the American journalist Upton Sinclair tells the story of a poor family that immigrated to the city of Chicago in order to improve their financial economy. However‚ due to life conditions and lack of money their chances of surviving during the Industrial Revolution became minimum
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The American Dream has been a great symbol for hope in the better for the immigrants presented by the author‚ Upton Sinclair. Upton Sinclair in the book‚ The Jungle‚ argued that the meatpacking industry in Packingtown had caused so many deaths‚ injuries‚ and corruptions which weakened the American Dream. Sinclair supported his argument by demonstrating the poor conditions of an immigrant couple‚ Jurgis and Ona‚ and their immigrant family through the use of pathos to bring out emotion of the evils
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door of restaurants and businesses? Upton Sinclair was an author‚ journalist and activist. He wrote The Jungle and Boston to uncover the in justice of the meat packing industry. He was a muckracker often known as a spy. "He was named for his father who was an alcoholic." His mother name was Priscilla Harden. "Sinclair was the one of the best American writers of his era." He had a since of poverty because he lived in cheap apartments in New York. "Sinclair graduated from a university which we now
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