... 1897, and in 1897 he graduated with an A.B. degree. Following graduation, Sinclair went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where he began writing full-length novels with serious social themes. These novels such as King Midas, The Journal of Arthur Stirling, and Manassas, did not receive any critical recognition, but they showed that Sinclair was concerned with ... been translated in many different language. response to the publication of The Jungle was quick and overwhelming. Even the literary critics were at least as interested in the descriptions of the awful working conditi...

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• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

... Sinclair was an important novel for the Twentieth Century in American history and made a big role in how industries, people, and American society in general functions like it does today. Industrialization was one of the many themes that made The Jungle an important role in American history. In the 1920's mass production was becoming more and more popular. Meat factories, and seamstress factories were filthy and very ... place on an "average" day in the life of an immigrant. The novel showed the hardships immigrants had to go through, and what The novel showed how the Labor Movement in t...

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• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... class as a whole, and still, Jurgis and the working class keep their faith in the "American dream." Because The Novel is based in the industrial, early 1900's and Sinclair's main point is to show the trials of working men, the industrial environment of Packingtown, Chicago is a perfect setting for a narration that will support the themes of the novel. Also, the way Upton Sinclair narrates The Jungle, including a protagonist, a setting, and a plot, rather than simply ... giving out facts about the meat packing industry, supports the validity of the statement that Sinclair's main purpose ...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Jungle is a novel written by Upton Sinclair. The jungle deals with the extreme working conditions in factories in the early 1900s, and socialism. The author purpose in this novel is to expose the truth behind the working conditions that workers suffer from exploitation and to promote socialism. The novel was written using a sequential order of events. Two of the most important themes of the story are the working conditions and socialism. In the early 1900s many immigrants" workers ... form many countries arrived into the United States all with the same thing in mind living the American dr...

• Word Count: 544
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School