The Jungle

The Jungle by: Upton Sinclair In the book “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair the author gives a critique of the early twentieth century labor practices in the growing cities of the United States. It gives people an opportunity to see all the factors that were going on not only in the meatpacking industry, but also the way working people lived and all the challenges that they had to overcome to just be able to survive. It also shows how the working conditions are in the city of Chicago. It shows how workers did their tasks in unsanitary conditions. The book would say that they would be working and rats would be passing by and because they were so tired they did not care anymore. * "And, for this, at the end of the week, he will carry home three dollars to his family, being his pay at the rate of five cents per hour-just about his proper share of the million and three quarters of children who are now engaged in earning their livings in the United States." I found this quote to be interesting because even though Jurgis works for whole family. Life in the United States is very difficult.

* “They had dreamed of freedom; of a chance to look about them and learn something; to be decent and clean, to see their child group up to be strong. And now it was all gone-it would never be!” This shows how life in America turns out nothing like they expected.
The observation that I made about the author’s style in the first half of the book is that Sinclair uses a lot of words to describe one situation. He creates a scene in the reader’s mind to be able to get the idea. Sinclair uses a lot of words just to prove a point. He also uses several Lithuanian words throughout the first half. He also explains the unsanitary conditions people worked on. There are descriptions on how bad the place actually was. I believe that the main idea of the story, not just the first half, is the American dream. Sinclair talks how most families got to the Unites States and what their