... third wife, in 1967. Sinclair died on November 25, 1968. Among Sinclair's most famous books is The Jungle (1906), which launched a public uproar and catapulted the government amidst a frenzy in an investigation of the meatpacking plants of Chicago, and changed the food laws of America. Today his works are not widely read, mostly because writers with political and social ... tremendous growth in investigative journalism as well as his socialist beliefs and that of his comrades. The Jungle accounts for the dirty conditions in the Chicago meat-packing industry and the struggles immigrants ...

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... 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 for writing ...

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... . Upton Sinclair, stated in 1903 that "My Cause is the Cause of a man who has never yet been defeated, and whose whole being is one all devouring, God-given holy purpose". He wrote The Jungle with a purpose. After its publication, the public's violent response to The Jungle 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 pa...

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... here all they get is cheated and no respect what so ever. Another aspect that Sinclair shows in The Jungle is that of the interesting working conditions found during this time. Jurgis and Ona have moved into a part of the town known as the "stock yards." This is the part of town in which houses Chicago's biggest slaughtering and meat packing industry. Oddly enough Jurgis finds ... taverns just to be able to survive the cold of the night. Sinclair clearly shows how terrible and life threatening the living conditions were during this time. I believe that Sinclair's main motive in The Jung...

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... doing various jobs. Days were often very long, work conditions were not easily tolerable, and the pay was only a few cents a day. With The Jungle's release, the novel gained a lot of its attention from the scenes of the meat packing industry's disgusting and unsanitary practices. The graphic descriptions of producing and selling the rotten diseased meat, made America sick. It was sad to see that factory owners valued ... by luck though that Jurgis wanders into a meeting about restoring humanity and giving rights to the working class. It is at this point that Jurgis and his family are gi...

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... dealt with in such a manner before. Upon its release, readers were disgusted with the analysis of the meatpacking industry. Although it had not been Sinclair's plan, The Jungle created many food laws, which made even the most inexpensive foods more palatable. In the end, the emotional impact was lost; even though it revealed the cruelty of being poor at this time, it also told a poignant story of a ... hopeful family who lost everything consequent to their move to the United States. The events the family suffered through were far grimmer than the condition of the food Jurgis" employer p...

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... his book, "The Jungle, toward informing the American public about the socialist reform of the time. Instead, it brought the entire nation to its feet, when they found out just what they and there children were eating. This book describes the life of a Lithuanian family who struggle to get by in Chicago. Most of the story revolves around the life of Jurgis Rudkus and the obstacles he ... 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 t...

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... books, articles, and plays dealt with a wide variety of social issues and Sinclair also assisted in creating the Leagues for Industrial Democracy. Sinclair is known for his strong socialistic beliefs and his journalistic style. The idea for The Jungle came about when the unsuccessful strike against the meatpacking companies in Chicago took place. Historically this time was horrible for immigrants and other poor families and ... was also a time of corruption and deceit. The family that Sinclair has the reader follow is that of Jurgis Rudkus. An immigrant family ... survive and how eithe...

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... of one of America's oldest regulated systems and unveils important issues that were suppressed by the progressive movement. Though it is often believed that the meat reform began with the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle in 1906, Kolko argues that it really began decades earlier. By the late 1800's meat was in high demand, so companies were producing at a faster rate than they ... this, many meat packaging and production companies had laws put into place guarantee the quality of the meat being sold outside of America. So though technically there were efforts made by companies ...

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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is about a young man named Jurgis Rudkus who moves to Chicago (Packington, the center of the meatpacking industry) from Lithuania with his wife, Ona, and other relatives. Jurgis overcomes many obstacles and I was surprised to see how ... them, everything from being arrested to being homeless and having to beg. Read on and find out more about Jurgis and him rising through it all. The main character is Jurgis Rudkus; he comes to America in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his family (basically what everyone comes to ... went to prison and has been th...

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... like Jurgis and left them feeling as nothing more than animals. It is through industry's dehumanizing treatment of the poor working class that Jurgis and many others change from common workers to animal-like creatures. Upton Sinclair uses animal imagery in The Jungle to illustrate the dehumanization of Jurgis charting his plight from a respectable immigrant to a savage animalistic creature. When Jurgis is working ... at the stockyards, his self-esteem is fairly high because he had not been fully exposed to the despicable conditions of Packingtown. When Jurgis and his family immigrate to ...

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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair changed the history of Chicago, the largest city of the meat packing industry. The book represents the lives of many immigrants who arrived to America to find the American dream, but as they experience the hardships of labor, discrimination and corruption, poverty took over their lives. In the book, the author clearly describes the dangerous and unsanitary working conditions that employees had to deal with, and the cruelty that ... to Jurgi's son, Jurgis feels more determine to work harder, but this all changes when Jurgi has an accident at work due to the dangero...

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... popular practice. This was where "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 ... be so ungrateful to notice that a dozen carcasses were passing him untouched."# This obviously led to tubercular meat being processed in the packing house. Another problem was t...

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... had its lure that brought in immigrants created their ethnic makeup during the large migration to the country at the turn of the 20th century. In Chicago, the meat packing companies were committed to attaining the highest profit margin attainable. For Chicago, it was this industry's system to maximize profits, as illustrated in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, that attracted workers from all over western Europe creating what is ... now considered an ethnic melting pot. The most intriguing aspect of the meat packing industry in Chicago was the fact that the companies were able to give minima...

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