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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In Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle‚ published in 1906‚ a sense of injustice towards the working class and need for socialism is present. Sinclair intended to illustrate the vast majority of immigrants in Chicago at the turn of the century; providing details and examples of abuses in the meatpacking industry merely as a means of demonstrating their troubles. After the publication of The Jungle‚ Sinclair stated‚ "I aimed for the public’s heart‚ and by accident I hit it in the stomach." He used those words
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individuals that attempted to address problems within American society were Upton Sinclair and Jacob Riis. These two muckrakers revealed the horrible working and living conditions of the lower class. In Upton Sinclair’s In The Jungle (1906)‚ Sinclair showed how unregulated capitalism was in the meatpacking industry. His described the unsanitary conditions and the inhumane conditions experienced by the workers and shocked readers. Sinclair had intended it as an attack upon capitalist enterprise‚ but readers
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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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Book Review on The Jungle As in any classic novel‚ there are several themes that contribute to the betterment of the story. However‚ the most prominent seems to be that capitalism is the root of the evils in the world‚ and socialism is the only cure. In my opinion‚ this is an excellent theme‚ because Sinclair truly persuades the reader into the belief that socialism is far superior to capitalism. He creates a sort of propaganda for the cause of socialism. The theme is developed subtly. The author
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the American Dream Many immigrants migrate to America everyday with the hopes to achieve their American dream. For most immigrants the American dream consist of finding a country where effort and morality transcend to success. In “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair‚ a family of hard working optimistic Lithuanians migrate to America with the belief that equality and opportunity dictates that all people should have the same opportunities open to them if they put out efforts. They arrive to the US expecting
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economic competition that we live in today‚ many thrive and many are left to dig through trashcans. It has been a constant struggle throughout the modern history of society. One widely prescribed example of this struggle is Upton Sinclair ’s groundbreaking novel‚ The Jungle. The Jungle takes the reader along on a journey with a group of recent Lithuanian immigrants to America. As well as a physical journey‚ this is a journey into a new world for them. They have come to America‚ where in the early twentieth
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In The Jungle‚ Upton Sinclair uses a true to life story to demonstrate the working man’s life during industrialization. Marx depicts in the Communist Manifesto an explanation of why the proletariat is worked so hard for the benefit of the bourgeois‚ and how they will inevitably rise up from it and move to a life of communism. When The Jungle and the Communist Manifesto were written‚ the proletariat‚ or working class‚ was a commodity of commerce. Like their brothers‚ they subjected to competition
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Force The Jungle Critical Analysis The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a powerful piece of classical literature. Indeed‚ it is arguably Sinclair’s most famous of all prior and latter works of art due to the simple fact it had such an impact on the meatpacking industry. Oddly enough‚ Sinclair didn’t achieve his underlying goal in stressing the importance of a socialistic society‚ but rather society focused on the atrocities of the how their food was being prepared in factories. The Jungle is a fictional
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Sinclair‚ Upton. The Jungle. New York: The Penguin Book‚ 1906 Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is the story of an immigrant who came to America for a new beginning involving a “great” job. The immigrant‚ Jurgis Rudkus‚ comes from a poor family in Lithuania and wants to now support his future wife‚ Ona Lukoszaite by working for a meatpacking factory in Chicago. Jurgis soon realizes that America and its’ people and opportunities are not all that he thought they would be. Sinclair exposes the horrors and
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