Sainclair The Jungle Summary

The jungle was written to expose the brutality faced by the workers in the meatpacking industry. He wanted to show people what was really going on in the factory because few people were informed about these companies work conditions .He wanted to show the public that meat was diseased, rotten, and contaminated. This revelation shocked the public which later led to the creation of the federal laws on food and safety.Sainclair strongly shows the failure of capitalism in the meatpacking industry which he viewed as inhuman, destructive, unjust, brutal, and violent. (Middlebury) How does this fit with everything else? Sinclair was an American writer born in Baltimore. He was struggling to live a basic life, he started reading about socialism.

One of these issues was where did the sausage come from or what was inside of the hams. Did the people know that came all the way from Europe, which they only sent the rejected meat? The meat inside was a mold and white and would be dosed with borax and glycerine (cite) The meat had all kinds of germs in them because meat that was in the dirt, People would spit on the meat, and walk over it. Another thing was how the product was stored?it was in great giant piles in a dark storage room where you can barely see what's going on. The meat was stored there, therefore; the water from the roof was leaky which got into the meat, thousands of rats would be on top of the meat. The most horrifying part is that they don’t clean up the rats inside the meat and it goes on with the men in the

“ Another main topic he brings up is the waste barrels. In the waste barrels, there were such things like the butt end of the smoked meat, scraps of corn beef and many others waste of the plants were dumped in the barrel in the cellar left there to rot. (cite) These waste barrels were used in such inhumane ways. This was one of the jobs they did only once, which they get paid for cleaning the dust barrels. In the barrels, there would be such things like dirt, old nail, rust and stale water, after it was loaded It would be dumped into the hoppers with the fresh meat and then sent out to public breakfast. Some of it would be made into smoked sausage, but it took longer and would take lots of finances.They would instead just send it to their chemistry department to make brown with special chemicals such as borax and gelatine. All of this sausage came out of the same bowl people would wrap it and called it special and added extra money on