The Jungle Throughout Upton Sinclair’s novel‚ The Jungle‚ the inhumane and disgusting treatment the working men and women was shown to the eyes of the American people. Although what the book is most recognized for is creating the Pure Food and Drug Act‚ an act that gave consumers protection from dangerous and impure foods‚ the many various horrors the lower working class had to go through was something that deserved more recognition. Upton Sinclair’s novel‚ The Jungle‚ gives an insight on how
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Rhetorical Analysis of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle The Jungle‚ being a persuasive novel in nature‚ is filled with different rhetorical devices or tools used by Sinclair to effectively convey his message. Sinclair’s goal of encouraging change in America’s economic structure is not an easy feat and Sinclair uses a number of different rhetorical devices to aid him. Through his intense tone‚ use of periodic sentencing‚ descriptive diction and other tools of rhetoric‚ Upton Sinclair constructs a moving
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novel Upton Sinclair shows the problems of working class people. His believe in and contempt for capitalism as described in this story “The Jungle”. The writer explains capitalism in which the labor communities were treated very badly and to survive in the conditions of poverty. The novel rotates around the family of a character Jurgis Rudkus who have immigrated to America from Lithuania. As well as explained about the shameless extortion of migrants in the U.S.A. Introduction Upton Sinclair was
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causing injuries and illness (Doc 4). Reporters begin inspecting all aspects of working environments which leads to Ida Tarbell publishing the History of Standard Oil which exposed Rockefeller for the corrupt businessman he was. Two years later‚ Upton Sinclair publishes “The Jungle” (Doc 5). The jungle shows what was happening in meat packing factories at this time and how unsanitary the work environment was (Doc 6). This was the era of monopolies which allowed these‚ “Big Business”‚ men to control
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Jurgis agrees with the political party’s ideals‚ and becomes a member. As the story ends‚ the results of an election are being received. The novel ends positively‚ showing that the Socialist party made significant progress across the country. Upton Sinclair shows the reader how to solve Capitalism’s problems: replace it with Socialism. The Socialist party is promoted as an international political party that will solve all of the world’s problems. Every member of the party was told about the "Socialist
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animals has had an enormous and negative impact on our environment from pesticide runoff to increased number of cattle emitting poisonous‚ ozone-depleting gas. The conglomerate companies care even less of the people they employ. The film mentions how Upton Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’ changed the workplace forever‚ creating safer environments for workers and the formation of unions. The companies have regressed the workplace hundreds of years by hiring illegal immigrants that will tolerate shoddy conditions
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"muckrakers" would bring major problems to the publics attention. One of the most powerful pieces done by a muckraker was the book "The Jungle"‚ by Upton Sinclair. The book was written to show the horrible working and living conditions in the packing towns of Chicago‚ but what caused a major controversy was the filth that was going into Americas meat. As Sinclair later said in an interview about the book "I aimed at the publics heart and by accident hit them in the stomach."# The meat packing industry
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also how much we pay for goods. Consumer Goods may seem like an irrational reason to have a reform‚ but during the 1900’s‚ people realized that the meat that most people ate came from places that were very unsanitary. This was discovered after Upton Sinclair published
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many in countries and sometimes in the U.S. that do it illegally‚ and journalists work to expose this. Spargo’s book is very similar to The Jungle in a way because it also exposed a problem. Although‚ Spargo did not get as immediate of reaction as Sinclair did. When Spargo wrote this book‚ he shows “how children of twelve years of age are legally employed in the
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Andrew 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
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