... 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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... 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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... . Jurgis's stint in the countryside is a significant as it represents the moment where the protagonist falls outside of the spheres of production and circulation of the capitalist system. However, the summer turns cold and Jurgis's lifestyle is reeled back to industrial Chicago. While it is true that natural forces are at play in necessitating Jurgis's return, the transition reveals that wage ... ...

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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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... 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 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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... published the book himself. In any case, Sinclair does a superb job of displaying to Americans a novel with an excellent plot that supports the author's views of a capitalistic economic system. After reading Sinclair's The Jungle one will gain sympathy and understanding for the hard working, middle class man. Also the reader will learn some surprising and startling facts about the process of ... ...

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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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... to fatal diseases, which they are exposed to in the factories they work in. The human rights of these workers are almost non-existent. They are paid as low as 12 cents an hour, and when forced they work 84 hours a week. The way that they are paid is done in complete secrecy so the management can pay them illegally low ... ...

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