The Jungle has long been associated with food production‚ the book is actually a much broader critique of early twentieth-century business and labor practices in the rapidly growing cities of the United States. The Jungle is the story of Jurgis Rudkus and his family‚ Lithuanian immigrants who come to America to work in the meatpacking plants of Chicago. Their story is a story of hardship. They face enormous difficulties: harsh and dangerous working conditions‚ poverty and starvation‚ unjust
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general elation of consumption. Additionally‚ the crowded animal pens of the stock yards symbolizes packingtown’s crowded living quarters for workers. With almost no personal space or privacy for individual‚ Jurgis and his family and dehumanized by their accommodations. Similar to an animal‚ Jurgis exist‚ from a severe capitalist point of view‚ only to carry out his function at the meat-packaging
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The Jungle Research Paper In Thomas Paine’s 1791 book Rights of Man‚ he paints an idyllic‚ almost naive sense of peace and cordiality throughout America. However‚ by the time one century has passed‚ corruption and social castes have inevitably settled over the country‚ ultimately disproving almost everything Paine had lauded America for. This is evidenced by Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel‚ The Jungle‚ and the Eric Schlosser’s 2003 book‚ Fast Food Nation. The 21st century has done nothing to
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“The cheapest doctor they could find would charge them fifteen dollars‚ and perhaps more when the bill came in; and here was Jurgis‚ declaring that he would pay it‚ even if he had to stop eating in the meantime.“ (110) Upton Sinclair was a muckraker‚ who wanted to expose the problems within the industries‚ factories‚ cities‚ and immigrants in order to have these issues fixed.
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imagery that strategically capture the reader in a world full of sympathy and belief. In this manner‚ he uses the journey of Jurgis Rudkis to depict the conditions in the meat packing industry in the United States. Jurgis‚ being the main character‚ was not used only to reveal the harsh and hidden lives of those working and living in Packingtown‚ however. Sinclair also used Jurgis to portray his personal belief of capitalism being corrosive. The following quote has been taken from a review found at AssociatedContent
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Recent United States History Class Number 8469 March 2‚ 2005 The Jungle Analysis Paper America‚ by the turn of the twentieth century‚ was regarded as the "Land of Opportunity‚" and lured thousands of immigrants. The foreigners that fled to the United States were in search of new lives; better lives. America was at the age of industrialization‚ and the economy was shifting from agriculture to factories. There were jobs in the factories available to un-skilled workers‚ which were the majority
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Upton Sinclair’s novel‚ The Jungle‚ has been a major influence on American History. The novel’s success stems from how it exploited the American meatpacking industry and eventually led to the passing of the Food and Drug act of 1906. Though the novel discusses the American era of Industrialization in Chicago‚ the title refers to this era as a Jungle. Sinclair’s title‚ The Jungle‚ symbolizes the worker’s struggle for a good life in a country where capitalist’s prosperity is defined by their poor
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contaminated meat which stunned the public which led to new federal food laws. The book is his fictionalized story of Chicago’s Packingtown. The title was the reflection of the how he saw the cruelty in meat-packing industry. The main character‚ “Jurgis” took the job at the Durham thinking this would help better his life‚ but this job was based on Armour & Co.‚ the leading Chicago meat packer. He witnessed how the company would make the assembly line much faster and still pay workers the same amount
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THE JUNGLE: Essay In the year of 1906 Upton Sinclair published a book called THE JUNGLE‚ which takes place in Chicago. In Sinclair’s book THE JUNGLE Sinclair uses many different ways to persuade Americans to turn to socialism. Socialism is any various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. In other words socialism is when everyone has to combine the money that they’ve earned then
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and when they healed and could work again‚ they did not have a job. With the poverty level at its highest‚ many citizens had to steal in order to survive. If they were caught‚ they would end up spending the night or even more in jail. In the novel Jurgis is put in jail because he started a fight with his boss‚ who sexually harassed Ona; He was put into jail for 30 days. While in jail‚ he was not able to provide his family with money‚ with no money they sent the children to work. In the 1900s children
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