After reading further into "The Jungle," and completing some research, I have come to make some brief points of how accurate the book is. The facts I came to find were very similar to ... early factories which enabled mass productions of wealth and power were at many times very dangerous places for workers. Workers faced gruesome long hours daily. The average work day was 12 to 15 hours per day, and the work week was six, and sometimes even seven days a week. These hours were in fact also spent in conditions that were extremely dangerous ... new world was to evolve from this. Never again w...

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... plant. Sinclair uses this chance to show his readers what it was like working in this kind of atmosphere. The meat packing plant is very dark and dangerous. In the summer it gets extremely hot inside the plant making working conditions fatal. During the progress of the book the readers see where many men die working inside these plants. The health ... conditions needed to be improved in certain parts of the United States, and to show other parts of the world what was happening to immigrants in the United States. After reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair one can see that he truly depict...

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... sits in the cell with all kinds of men, the judge designated a date for Jurgis' trial and his bond is set to three hundred dollars. He is taken to the county jail and humiliated, he realizes that its Christmas Eve and he reminisces the past year he spent with his wife and children. In chapters seventeen through twenty-one, is about ... ...

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... advantage of. For example, when Jurgis and his family went to buy their house they were told it would only be $12 a month for six years. However, when presented with the bill for the first payment the price was more then $12 because they had not been directly told they would have to pay a monthly interest amount of $7 on top of the ... $12. Even with the combined earnings of everyone in the family it wasn't enough. Soon they could no longer afford the house and ... ...

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... of the packing house in chapter 3 is necessary for this novel to provide the reader with a clear insight of what exactly is going on in the meat packing industry. After reading chapter 3, I was officially traumatized by the details that this chapter provided me with. The vivid details of this chapter make you realize how much of this novel consisted of factual ... whole process without feeling emotions, having something to say, picturing vivid images in their head, or comparing this event to something so tragic. One can imagine vivid images just by reading this chapter in the novel, to ...

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... their own as well. Both, however, are faced with strong economic problems. For Jurgis, it is the poor managing and working conditions of Packingtown. Due to their overproduction in the summer, they are forced to shut down in the winter making the workers unemployed when they need financial support the most. There was also no set wages. They could pay them ... ...

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... it would have been considering how the names were a little odd. This book was kind of easier to read because of the logical order that it was printed in. while reading The Jungle I realized just how much care and teaching we really do need in this world. Without all of the teaching and care that we are given as young children ... , we would be not even a day smarter than the day before. We wouldn't have learned anything. Although this book doesn't have an index it is barely needed. I enjoyed reading this book and wish that others have the chance to read it as well as I did. I defiantly r...

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... quite as surely as the cattle in the packing plant. Disease spread by filthy working and living conditions attacks them, they endure cold in winter and clouds of flies in summer, bad food weakens their bodies, and seasonal layoffs leave them always facing starvation. When illness destroys Jurgis's great strength, he realizes that he has become a physical cast-off, one of ... ...

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... a baby boy, Antanas. After months of working, the family is struggling to survive through the horrible working conditions. The meatpacking plant was full of filth and deceased cattle. In the summer, the plant would get to unbearable temperatures and the winter was the complete opposite. The winter was the most dangerous season in Packingtown. Every day in the winter, Jurgis had ... ...

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... prompted a government investigation of the meat packing plants in Chicago, changed food laws in America and led to the enforcement of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. After reading The Jungle, I can more clearly understand the hardships of workers in the United States during the turn of the century. Sinclair paints a vivid picture that lets the reader get close ... to the torture of industrial labor, without actually living through it. I think that after reading this book a public outcry and investigation were inevitable simply because it describes a life so tragic and inhumane that ...

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... and optimism are short-lived with the death of little Antanas. Overcome by grief, Jurgis decides to forget about the family and flees Chicago for the countryside. After spending the summer tramping around enjoying the fresh country air and sunshine, cold weather sends him back to Chicago to once again look for a job. Knowing that he cannot go back to Packingtown ... ...

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... and become lard. "The public revolted at the idea of human flesh going into the lard they used."# The meat packers ignored the publics right to safe, clean meat. After reading "The Jungle" president Roosevelt was outraged and ordered an investigation of the packing houses. The result he said was "hideous and Sickening"#. Roosevelt denounced people "who poision for profit"#. The ... ...

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... beginning to set up a home with all of the immigrants. The organizers or Comrades had so many people under them in which they directed or taught them about Socialism. After reading the novel and realizing what occurred in the early 1900's to the immigrants who needed to find homes and or jobs to survive and how either low pay at their ... ...

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... in the meat that American's were eating caused the government to take action. Repulsed by Sinclair's descriptions of the meat packing industry, Theodore Roosevelt ended the unsanitary conditions only after reading the book. The Food and Drug Act was a true example of how the people of our nation influenced the government to take action, to solve a growing problem affecting the American ... ...

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