Summary Of Upton Sinclair's Novel 'The Jungle'

The Jungle
Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle, highlights the amount of unethical practices inside the meat-packing industry used to produce better profit for the company. Upton Sinclair uses the main character, Jurgis, an immigrant who travels with his wife from Lithuania to Packingtown with his wife Ona, to show how corrupt the meat-packing industry was, as Jurgis first job was moving slaughtered cattle through the process of meat-packing. When Jurgis begins his job, the first thing he notices is the lack of sanitation in the workplace. He notes the suffering of the animals, the government inspector not checking several carcasses for tuberculosis and the doctoring of spoiled meat so it can be packed. Later, in Chapter 13, Jurgis and

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