The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a novel set at the meatpacking plants and stockyards of Chicago‚ Illinois. Jurgis Rudkus and his family‚ immigrants from Lithuanian‚ decided to move to the United States to follow the “American Dream”. They settled in Chicago and started to work in Packing town. Unlike the working conditions of today‚ they encountered the worst working conditions possible‚ testing their family life and values‚ and how authority figures were there for
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age because immigrants from around the world saw the life in the United States as a magical world of easy living‚ but when they actually got to the U.S they were severely let down‚and plagued with a life of suffering and hardships. In Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle he does an amazing job of illustrating one of the biggest conflicts in the immigrants lives. During this time‚ the manufacturing and processing industries were corrupt in many aspects such as their treatment of their workers‚ the process
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Justine Saldana POLS 2314.07 11/23/12 The Jungle By: Upton Sinclair Ona and Jurgis are getting married and they live in Chicago. They live in Packington which is a city known for their meat packing industry‚ while there they see pins filled with different types of livestock. Tuberculosis is a common disease that is going around during this time‚ and some of the animals are skipped from inspection and continue on into the meat process with this disease. Jurgis is employed in the meat packing
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Upton Sinclair wrote the novel The Jungle in hopes that the readers would be awakened to the terrible living conditions of immigrants in the cities around the turn of the century. His goal was to document the inhumane treatment of the working men and women in the industrial capitalism speaking out specifically about the unsanitary conditions in the Chicago meat-packing industry. During the period of industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth‚ millions of
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The Jungle In the 1900s the working conditions for foreigners and natural born citizens were unacceptable. The meat was packaged in factories crawling with disease. Upton Sinclair recognized the issues surrounding these conditions. Sinclair wrote The Jungle to inform the world about how not only the meat packing industry was flawed‚ but also how the working conditions of that time were flawed. Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ on September 20‚ 1878. His father was an alcoholic
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Upton ’s Sinclair ’s The Jungle was a novel based on one employee who worked for a Chicago ’s meat-packing factory. This detailed novel described horrendous conditions and gruesome visions of contaminated meat. This brought forth significant changes within the meat-packing industry. America ’s business of canned meat was declining within the country as well as the world. Lack of trust and controversy surrounding the meat-industry caused President Roosevelt and Congress to take initiative of the situation
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American history that has been peaceful. Upton Sinclair‚ in his novel‚ The Jungle‚ an expose of the meatpacking industry‚ became an enormous bestseller translated into seventeen languages within weeks of its publication in 1906. But while 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
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Upton Sinclair wrote the novel The Jungle along with several other politically-charged novels. Primarily motivated by politics‚ Sinclair wrote novels encouraging socialism and condemning capitalism. The literary period‚ the historical events‚ his family background‚ his job experience‚ and his political opinion inspired Sinclair’s desire to write The Jungle. The bold novel incited bold reactions of both support and criticism. Despite the opinions of the critics‚ Sinclair’s political outcry is
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The Jungle is a novel in which a Lithuanian family moves to America in search of the “American dream.” During this time (early 1900s) America was becoming very industrialized. Industrialization to most people meant more jobs and more money. Though there were indeed more jobs available‚ the working conditions were less than favorable. The main character‚ Jurgis Rudkus‚ is able to find work in one of the large slaughterhouses in Chicago. The company “Brown’s” was a part of the Beef Trust in Chicago
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Upton Sinclair and the Chicago Meat-packing Industry In 1900‚ there were over 1.6 million people living in Chicago‚ the country’s second largest city. Of those 1.6 million‚ nearly 30% were immigrants. Most immigrants came to the United States with little or no money at all‚ in hope of making a better life for themselves. A city like Chicago offered these people jobs that required no skill. However‚ the working and living conditions were hazardous and the pay was barely enough to survive
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