Summary Of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

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There is picture that is drawn along Sinclair’s revelation of hardship of urban life in Chicago in the 1900’s. The hardship that is seen along the book is the message of socialism that Sinclair wanted to justify. She explains how being compensated and determined for every individual based on their experience would be better for foreigners whom have lived a lesser life and in hope for the better. The belief that all their worries would be wiped and a new clean slate would be given to them through the migration to America. They had hoped that capitalism would allow them to become fear free. As they moved there it was not what many had pictured. In fact, it was harder. It was difficult to bring their morals and values and live by them in a compete …show more content…
Their life consisted of worrying about new things such as low paying jobs, risk of injury due to dangerous working conditions, and little to no ascending positions. “The meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one—there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit. There was no place for the men to wash their hands before they ate their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage. There were the butt-ends of smoked meat, and the scraps of corned beef, and all the odds and ends of the waste of the plants, that would be dumped into old barrels in the cellar and left there. Under the system of rigid economy which the packers enforced, there were some jobs that it only paid to do once in a long time, and among these was the cleaning out of the waste barrels. Every spring they did it; and in the barrels would be dirt and rust and old nails and stale water—and cartload after cartload of it would be taken up and dumped into the hoppers with fresh meat, and sent out to the public’s breakfast” (The Jungle,

Summary Of Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'

Upton Sinclair The Jungle is mainly about a Lithuanian family that moves to America to hopefully have a better life. Then they find out America was not as great as they thought it would be. The family had trouble keeping house, jobs and could barely afford food. They then realize they just don’t have enough money to survive in America and they don’t really fit in at all. It mainly them going through sad times, happy times, and some rough times. He mainly it talking about how they do survival of…

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Summary Of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

The Jungle: The Jungle was a novel written by Upton Sinclair in 1906 that highlighted the harsh conditions of the lives of immigrants in such industrialized cities, particularly the Chicago Stockyards. The novel also exposed the meatpacking industry with its corruption and bad practices. This included unsanitary and unsafe conditions in the slaughterhouses and in production. The release of this novel to the public helped to draw in sympathy for the working class and garner support for the Socialist…

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Summary Of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

with it. Around this time, Europe was becoming more and more concerned for our health because there was a drastic increase in cases of food poisoning and at one point even threatened to stop their pork trade the United States. After reading the Jungle by Upton Sinclair and newsletters regarding to the food that we eat, I’ve decided to investigate and look aside the industry to experience…

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Summary Of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

publication of Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, the Pure Food Act of 1906 was passed. Later, laws, unions and federal companies were created to help improve this problem. Although the country’s food industry has acquired labor unions and safety regulations for legal United States citizens, it has worsened with its treatment of animals and the hiring and firing of undocumented workers. Throughout time, the treatment of the animals we consume has become progressively worse. In The Jungle, cows in…

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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…

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Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a literary work describing human nature exposing truths of the wrongs done to people of America and is representative of all workers of the time. It is a very depressing realization of how unregulated capitalists corporations and monopolies treated human beings as wage slaves with complete disregard for the workers well-being. Throughout the book, Sinclair shows the struggles of an American family in order to show the failings in American society. **(A little about…

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