Throughout American history, people that have challenged themselves with a cause have had at least some control of major issues present during their lives. Upton Sinclair was one of these influential people. Using his talent for writing, Sinclair wrote his most successful novel, The Jungle. This novel stressed a need to improve conditions for industrial workers, and exposed the faults of Capitalism in order to promote his cause; which was Socialism. Sinclair achieved his goal of promoting Socialism with the story of Jurgis Rudkus and his family. By describing the harsh system in which workers were consumed by, Sinclair uncovered faults in Capitalism, and inversely promoted Socialism.
In Sinclair’s story, he vividly described the family and the disagreeable situation they were in. The accounts of the meatpacking industry, developed mainly on truth from personal experience, were filled with examples of an unjust work system, corruption by employers, and the resulting low living conditions. For example, Packingtown laborers would be forced to work repeatedly faster, only to see their wages cut numerous times. Also, families became impoverished, causing the children to work. As a result, Elzbieta's son, Stanislovas, was eaten alive by rats. Such major problems in the Capitalist system were focused on throughout the novel. The problems in the meatpacking industry related to issues concerning the entire industrial labor force. Sinclair continued to show that these problems could have been solved by Socialism.
The fact that Jurgis joined the Socialist Party and was dedicated to improving his surroundings was how Sinclair displayed the fact that Socialism was a more practical system.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how upton sinclair's novel, the jungle, stressed a need to improve conditions for industrial workers, and exposed the faults of capitalism to promote his cause, which was socialism.
- Analyzes how sinclair vividly described the family and the disagreeable situation they were in. the meatpacking industry was an unjust work system, corruption by employers, and low living conditions.
- Analyzes how sinclair showed that socialism was a more practical system when jurgis joined the socialist party.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair's novel, the jungle, stressed a need to improve conditions for industrial workers, and exposed the faults of capitalism to promote his cause, which was socialism.
- Analyzes how sinclair vividly described the family and the disagreeable situation they were in. the meatpacking industry was an unjust work system, corruption by employers, and low living conditions.
- Analyzes how sinclair showed that socialism was a more practical system when jurgis joined the socialist party.
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- Upton Sinclair's Work Conditionsanalytical essayEmployment is hard to find and hard to keep and a job isn’t always what one hoped for. Sometimes jobs do not sufficiently support our lifestyles, and all too frequently we’re convinced that our boss’s real job is to make us miserable. However, every now and then there are reprieves such as company holiday parties or bonuses, raises, promotions and even a half hour or hour to eat lunch that allows escape from monotonous workloads. Aside from our complaints, employment today for majority of American’s isn’t totally dreadful, and there always lies opportunity for promotion. American’s did not always experience this reality in their work places though, and not long past are days of abysmal and disgusting work conditions. In 1906 Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” was published. His novel drastically transformed the way Americans felt about the unmitigated power corporations wielded in the ‘free’ market economy that was heavily propagandized at the turn of the century. Corporations do not have the same unscrupulous practices today because of actions taken by former President Theodore Roosevelt who felt deeply impacted by Sinclair’s famous novel. Back in early 1900’s in the meatpacking plants of Chicago the incarnation of greed ruled over the working man and dictated his role as a simple cog within an enormous insatiable industrial machine. Executives of the 1900’s meatpacking industry in Chicago, IL, conspired to work men to death, obliterate worker’s unions and lie to American citizens about what they were actually consuming in order to simply acquire more money.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how upton sinclair's "the jungle" transformed the way americans felt about the unmitigated power corporations wielded in the ‘free’ market economy.
- Analyzes how men's bodies were routinely exploited for dangerous labor then discarded as the human body began to break. jurgis, the main immigrant character in the jungle, observes the conditions.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair's novel affected president roosevelt deeply at the time. the usda reported that the claims were fabricated and the novel was a compilation of lies.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair's "the jungle" transformed the way americans felt about the unmitigated power corporations wielded in the ‘free’ market economy.
- Analyzes how men's bodies were routinely exploited for dangerous labor then discarded as the human body began to break. jurgis, the main immigrant character in the jungle, observes the conditions.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair's novel affected president roosevelt deeply at the time. the usda reported that the claims were fabricated and the novel was a compilation of lies.
- Explains that immigrant workers employed by corporate trusts of early 1900's had no power to amend the dreadful circumstances they became entrapped to.
- Analyzes how roosevelt used public outrage and opportunity to implement two legislations: the pure food and drugs act and the meat inspection act.
- Explains that upton sinclair's the jungle: muckraking the meat-packing industry was published by the constitutional rights foundation.
1143 wordsRead More - Upton Sinclair's The Jungleanalytical essayUpton Sinclair really wrote The Jungle for the promotion of socialism, himself being a long-time socialist, but what really caught the attention of the public was the few pages of descriptions about the horrors of the meat-packing industry. He couldn't have been very happy that the book gained fame for a different reason, but nonetheless it did gain a significant amount of fame and get that message of socialism is better than communism out to the public widely. There are a lot of different characters in The Jungle, and they all have some significance in their roles. These characters vary widely in many aspects, including: professions, social status, and economic status.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that upton sinclair wrote the jungle for the promotion of socialism, but the few pages of descriptions about the horrors of the meat-packing industry caught the public's attention.
- Analyzes how the main character in the novel is jurgis rudkus, a lithuanian immigrant, his wife, ona lukoszaite, and phil jack duane.
- Narrates how jurgis and ona's story begins with the party at their wedding in america, but goes back to the time before they left lithuania.
- Explains that upton sinclair wrote the jungle for the promotion of socialism, but the few pages of descriptions about the horrors of the meat-packing industry caught the public's attention.
- Analyzes how the main character in the novel is jurgis rudkus, a lithuanian immigrant, his wife, ona lukoszaite, and phil jack duane.
- Narrates how jurgis and ona's story begins with the party at their wedding in america, but goes back to the time before they left lithuania.
- Describes packingtown, a section of chicago where the meat packing industry is centralized. they visit the plant and see the efficiency and speed at which hogs and cattle are butchered, cooked, packed, and shipped.
- Analyzes how jurgis' tough build quickly gets him a job on the cattle killing beds, and the other members of the family soon find jobs, except for the children.
- Narrates how ona becomes upset after the birth of her first son, antanas, and jurgis confronts her after she fails to return home. she breaks into tears and tells him that a foreman named connor has forced her sexual relationship.
- Narrates how jurgis is sentenced to jail for thirty days after beating connor to a pulp. when he is released, his family has moved to an even poorer neighborhood, and ona is in labor.
- Narrates how jurgis enjoys a "hobo" life, wandering across the country, but when winter comes, he is forced to return to chicago. he meets jack duane, an experienced criminal.
- Analyzes how jurgis walks into a socialist meeting and is introduced to ostrinski, who teaches him about socialism. as the story ends, the results of an election are being received.
- Analyzes how the jungle casts an evil light on america, business, and politics. it promotes socialism, emphasizes corruption and makes people working at the bottom look like slaves.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair shows the reader how to solve capitalism's problems: replace it with socialism. every member of the socialist party was told about the "socialist revolution".
- Analyzes how the jungle is more than an advertisement for socialism. it describes the horrors of the meat packing industry in great detail.
- Narrates the cruelty to animals in the novel, including the hogs being hoisted into the air, pierced by a sledgehammer, and the "steerly" cattle that developed boils.
- Opines that the novel did not persuade them to become a socialist, but they still enjoyed reading it.
1311 wordsRead More - Ethics In Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'analytical essayWhile The Jungle was by far Sinclair’s most famous work, what many are not aware of is the fact that The Jungle was initially written as an expose for a well-known socialist newspaper in the country, Appeal to Reason. Although Sinclair once said he were to write the “Uncle Tom’s Cabin of the labor movement”, he did so not by merely speculating what the meat packing industry was like, but by actually experiencing the lifestyle firsthand. Upton Sinclair went to the packing plants himself in order to truly gain the experience of what it was like to work in the stockyards as well as communicating directly with employees, laborers, social workers, and locals to truly grasp what life was like in a place like Packingtown. It was not until Sinclair was able to take all of his experiences in that he was able to sit down and write an accurate and to some, frightful expose of what the meat packing industry
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the jungle concludes with the pessimistic ending and narrative of the family as a way to demonstrate that nothing good was truly produced in places like packingtown.
- Explains that the audience at the time either despised the book and what it stood for or realized the wake-up call sinclair set out for as he wrote the novel.
- Opines that companies disregard what is ethical as long as it brings the most profitable solution. with regulations being set and laws enacted, every business in any industry will become bankrupt.
- Analyzes how the jungle concludes with the pessimistic ending and narrative of the family as a way to demonstrate that nothing good was truly produced in places like packingtown.
- Explains that the audience at the time either despised the book and what it stood for or realized the wake-up call sinclair set out for as he wrote the novel.
- Opines that companies disregard what is ethical as long as it brings the most profitable solution. with regulations being set and laws enacted, every business in any industry will become bankrupt.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair, of the jungle, demonstrates the downside of massive unethical corporations while showcasing the unsanitary conditions of the food industry.
1390 wordsRead More - Upton Sinclair's Accidental Success: The Jungleanalytical essayAn American writer, reformer, and an idealistic supporter of socialism, Upton Sinclair, became a famous “muckraker” in the early 1900s. Through his writing, he made it his principle goal to expose political and social evils (Daniel Mark Fogel). The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, comes across rather elementary as far as novels go; however, the way the story reads is not what was so important about the book. By writing the book, the author aimed to expose the horrendous working conditions in the meatpacking industry in the early 1900s in Chicago, Illinois. As a worker himself in the meatpacking plant yards, Sinclair often witnessed illegal practices and unsafe food handling first hand (Gallagher). In addition to the poor working conditions, he attempts to shed some light on the diseased, rotten and contaminated state of the meat products that these deprived workers produced. Upton Sinclair’s, The Jungle, highlights the devastating condition of the meatpacking industry’s workers, their poor health practices at the turn of the century, and by reaching the White House, this anti-capitalist and pro-socialist author’s novel changed the way our food reaches the American public forever.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how upton sinclair, an american writer, reformer, and idealistic supporter of socialism, became a famous "muckraker" in the early 1900s.
- Analyzes how sinclair depicts hardworking immigrants as suffering, with scarce employment opportunities, and with the jobs they do have, people cannot make a decent living on the mediocre compensation.
- Explains that the "american dream" of a capitalistic lifestyle was not as attainable as they thought it would be.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair, an american writer, reformer, and idealistic supporter of socialism, became a famous "muckraker" in the early 1900s.
- Analyzes how sinclair depicts hardworking immigrants as suffering, with scarce employment opportunities, and with the jobs they do have, people cannot make a decent living on the mediocre compensation.
- Explains that the "american dream" of a capitalistic lifestyle was not as attainable as they thought it would be.
- Analyzes how jurgis finds a job in packingtown, where the meatpacking industry is located, but realizes that corruption runs wild in his new home country.
- Analyzes how sinclair's depiction of jurgis' immigrant family and their systematic denial of the american dream is not subtle.
- Analyzes how sinclair illustrates a glaring theme of social darwinism throughout the novel, the jungle.
- Analyzes how sinclair's novel, the jungle, gained such high visibility that president theodore roosevelt read it. the novel was intended to be propaganda for socialism.
1189 wordsRead More - The Jungleopinion essaya great place to live in and decided to move to America. The day after
In this essay, the author
- Narrates how they decided to move to america after finding a great place to live in.
- Narrates how he recovers and goes to get his job back, but finds it gone and must find a new job.
- Narrates how jurgis smells the plant, and finds out that ona is ona.
- Narrates how they decided to move to america after finding a great place to live in.
- Narrates how he recovers and goes to get his job back, but finds it gone and must find a new job.
- Narrates how jurgis smells the plant, and finds out that ona is ona.
- Narrates how they kept the house they tried so hard to keep, and back to the lodging house where they stayed.
- Explains that antanas, jurgis stays and gets a job then is laid off, so he gets the job.
- Analyzes how a bartender cheats when he leaves the family, is full, and has $100 bill.
- Narrates how the novel ends on a socialist hotel porter's job.
- Opines that workers were weak and old if they got too old or were unable to work hard or fast.
- Opines that they would like them in the novel, but later on in it.
- Opines that you don't really get to know her in the story.
- Narrates how baby isn't his, he is devastated, and then nearly kills ona's boss.
- Narrates how ona and the baby die after being released from jail.
- Opines that the deaths of the people he loved and carried about, that is why i found his death.
- Opines that once they started reading the novel, they really got into it.
- Narrates how antanas stayed with a farm equipment maker and then was laid off, but finds work in sa steel plant.
1589 wordsRead More - The Jungle is Upton Sinclairanalytical essayThe Jungle is Upton Sinclair’s novel that narrates the tragedy of Jurgis Rudkus and his family, Lithuanian immigrants who travel to America to work in Chicago’s meatpacking plants. It is a grim story of suffering and hardship. This family undergoes considerable difficulties that vary from the appalling and unsafe working conditions, to poverty and starvation, in addition to merciless businessmen who extort their money as well as dishonest politicians who generate laws that permit the existence of such scandal. Furthermore, the narrative traces Jurgis’ transformation when he meets the new political and economic system of socialism. The novel also uncovers, in one of its parts, the sickening and disgusting methods of the meat processing (Karolides 281).
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how jurgis finds work without delay, the same thing for ona's cousin, marija berczynskas, and jonas. the packinghouses are filthy and unhealthy places where every part of the animal is exploited for profit.
- Analyzes how jurgis is forced to work in an unheated slaughterhouse, marija is out of work, and tamoszius, a pleasant violinist, is unable to marry.
- Analyzes how jurgis becomes a beggar after he hurt himself at work and meets freddie jones, who deceives him, and they commit burglaries and muggings.
- Analyzes how jurgis finds work without delay, the same thing for ona's cousin, marija berczynskas, and jonas. the packinghouses are filthy and unhealthy places where every part of the animal is exploited for profit.
- Analyzes how jurgis is forced to work in an unheated slaughterhouse, marija is out of work, and tamoszius, a pleasant violinist, is unable to marry.
- Analyzes how jurgis becomes a beggar after he hurt himself at work and meets freddie jones, who deceives him, and they commit burglaries and muggings.
- Narrates how jurgis descends into the deepest despair of his soul. he finds an orator delivering a speech that attracts him, and adopts its principle that workers should own factories and plants.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair's novel the jungle narrates the tragedy of jurgis rudkus and his family, lithuanian immigrants who travel to america to work in chicago’s meatpacking plants.
- Analyzes how a calamity or chance event can easily confound and destroy the family in packingtown.
1401 wordsRead More - Analysis Of Rhetorical Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'analytical essayThe novel follows a family of immigrants from Lithuania working in a meatpacking factory, and as the novel progresses, the reader learns of the revolting conditions within the factories. Sinclair’s The Jungle illustrates the concept of Bitzer’s “Rhetorical Situation” and Emerson’s quote quite effectively. For instance, the horrendous safety and health conditions of the packing factories were the exigencies that Upton Sinclair was making clear to the reader. The rhetorical audience that Sinclair aimed to influence with his novel was Congress and the president, as both had to agree in order to establish health and safety bills to better the conditions within factories. Sinclair’s efforts did not go unnoticed as in 1906 both the Meat Inspection Act, and the Pure Food and Drug act were approved by both Congress and President Theodore Roosevelt (Cherny,
In this essay, the author
- Explains that emerson wrote, "times of terror are times of eloquence." based on their reading of bitzer's article, what does this sentiment mean to you?
- Explains how to find an article from a major news source that focuses on some aspect of south africa.
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- Explains how to find an article from a major news source that focuses on some aspect of south africa.
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1620 wordsRead More - Depicting the Times in The Jungleanalytical essayUpton Sinclair, a journalist, spent seven weeks researching and interviewing within Chicago's meat packing district. His novel "The Jungle," depicted the graft, corruption and unsavory practices of the meat packing industry. Originally published as a series of articles in a weekly Socialist-based newspaper called "Appeal to Reason." This newspaper's circulation was a half million and heading upwards, thus "The Jungle," found much notoriety before published as a novel. Due to public outcries that followed its publication as a novel in 1906 led directly to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug act later that year.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that industry in america during the 1900's was in the "i'm walking, what next?" stages of infancy. regulation in american industry was veritably nonexistent during this time.
- Explains that large unregulated corporations began to dominate the u.s. after the civil war. the trusts were groups of corporations that would squeeze out competition to keep the prices of their products low.
- Explains that corruption ran rampant within the city governments and corporations, leaving a blind eye to worker and consumer rights. the socialist party blamed many of society's ills on competition for profit.
- Explains that industry in america during the 1900's was in the "i'm walking, what next?" stages of infancy. regulation in american industry was veritably nonexistent during this time.
- Explains that large unregulated corporations began to dominate the u.s. after the civil war. the trusts were groups of corporations that would squeeze out competition to keep the prices of their products low.
- Explains that corruption ran rampant within the city governments and corporations, leaving a blind eye to worker and consumer rights. the socialist party blamed many of society's ills on competition for profit.
- Analyzes how sinclair's novel "the jungle" depicted the graft, corruption and unsavory practices of the meat packing industry.
- Analyzes how sinclair wrote this novel as an argument for socialism, but it became an expose of the meat packing industry. his main idea was the injustice of commercialism to working-class people.
- Opines that they would read another sinclair novel, but not with the expectations they had before beginning "the jungle." the last four chapters of this novel completely ignored the characters and became an explanation of socialism.
428 wordsRead More - N/Aanalytical essayThe Jungle was elaborately and truthfully written by Upton Sinclair to shock the nation (and the world) in hopes that it would bring light to the immigrants who supplied their food; in writing, Sinclair not only brought attention to the immigrant and native workers who suffered to live while working in the meatpacking industry, but also has shown truth about the industry that nobody but the insiders knew. He has exposed the exploitation of workers, the unsanitary conditions of the factories, and the corruption of power; Sinclair has had a great influence on the improvement of the meatpacking industry and has shed light on its evolution.
In this essay, the author
- Explains sinclair's sole purpose for writing the jungle was to bring attention to the exploitation of those who worked within the meatpacking industry.
- Explains that speeding up of work caused the men to work frantically because of the fear that they might lose their job.
- Analyzes how sinclair uncovered the fact that bosses worked their workers to the bone and then threw them out.
- Explains sinclair's sole purpose for writing the jungle was to bring attention to the exploitation of those who worked within the meatpacking industry.
- Explains that speeding up of work caused the men to work frantically because of the fear that they might lose their job.
- Analyzes how sinclair uncovered the fact that bosses worked their workers to the bone and then threw them out.
- Analyzes how the meatpacking industry exploited its workers by accepting child labor. the bosses of the factories were very precise about keeping a child’s records on hand to ensure that they would stay out of trouble when inspectors would stop by.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair uncovered the horrors surrounding diseased, contaminated, and rotten meat that was fed by the tons to the worlds.
- Analyzes how america's meat was contaminated, as was their milk, tea, coffee, canned fruits and vegetables. upton sinclair acknowledged in the jungle that consumers knew of the repulsive confidentialities of packingtown.
- Analyzes how sinclair's jungle exemplifies the corruption of power during the early 1900s that influenced the meatpacking industry.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair's message provoked the public about corruption of power.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair's work was intended to expose the exploitation of workers and immigrants, the unsanitary factory conditions in which american people derived their meat, and the corruption of power.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair's the jungle has made a colossal impact on the meatpacking industry. the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug act paved the way for the fda.
2055 wordsRead More - Upton Sinclair's The Jungle as Socialist Propagandaanalytical essayIn the world of economic competition that we live in today, many thrive and many are left to dig through trashcans. It has been a constant struggle throughout the modern history of society. One widely prescribed example of this struggle is Upton Sinclair's groundbreaking novel, The Jungle. The Jungle takes the reader along on a journey with a group of recent Lithuanian immigrants to America. As well as a physical journey, this is a journey into a new world for them. They have come to America, where in the early twentieth century it was said that any man willing to work an honest day would make a living and could support his family. It is an ideal that all Americans are familiar with- one of the foundations that got American society where it is today. However, while telling this story, Upton Sinclair engages the reader in a symbolic and metaphorical war against capitalism. Sinclair's contempt for capitalist society is present throughout the novel, from cover to cover, personified in the eagerness of Jurgis to work, the constant struggle for survival of the workers of Packingtown, the corruption of "the man" at all levels of society, and in many other ways.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how upton sinclair's novel, the jungle, engages the reader in a symbolic and metaphorical war against capitalism.
- Explains that capitalism and socialism are relevant to the jungle, and that it is the economic system most fitting with the idea of the american dream.
- Argues that believers in socialism would disagree with this ideal. socialism is the economic system in which the workers, instead of a rich minority of entrepreneurs, own all industry.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair's novel, the jungle, engages the reader in a symbolic and metaphorical war against capitalism.
- Explains that capitalism and socialism are relevant to the jungle, and that it is the economic system most fitting with the idea of the american dream.
- Argues that believers in socialism would disagree with this ideal. socialism is the economic system in which the workers, instead of a rich minority of entrepreneurs, own all industry.
- Explains that the story revolves around the life and family of jurgis rudkus, a lithuanian immigrant who comes to america with his wife ona, their children, and some members of their extended family.
- Describes the veselija, or wedding party of jurgis and his new wife, ona, in a bar in their neighborhood.
- Analyzes how sinclair depicts the lithuanian event with many of the same things and the partygoers' values to give the reader a sense of identity with them.
- Analyzes how sinclair illustrates the unfairness of capitalism by showing the plight of the workers in packingtown.
- Analyzes how the poverty of packingtown makes work the driving force in the family's life.
- Analyzes how the "evil" capitalist regime sinclair presents oppresses the family in every way possible without mercy.
- Analyzes how sinclair's depiction of capitalism as a force as unrelenting as disease or cold weather, destroys the wholesome values of the family.
- Analyzes how sinclair illustrates the idea of social darwinism in the story.
- Analyzes how sinclair ridicules the american dream throughout the novel. he introduces jurgis as a strong man with good morals who is willing to work his ass off to see his family thrive.
- Analyzes how sinclair strays from the detail of the beginning, speeding through the story, and making the end sound more like a commercial for socialism.
- Analyzes how sinclair's novel, the pure food and drug act of 1906, was a propaganda against capitalism and pro-socialism.
3115 wordsRead More - "The Jungle": Inspiring Change in the Workplaceanalytical essay...key factors that played into workers' rights; thus we know that Sinclair did not have as much impact on the rights of laborers as he had hoped. However, through his book, The Jungle, Upton Sinclair was able to greatly influence the hygiene in food and other products, which is just as important as the rights of the people. The intertwining of events that occurred in the late 1800s and early 1900s and the publishing of the marvelous book The Jungle have had a huge impact on the pay and working conditions for laborers today and on the levels of cleanliness in foods and other goods.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the jungle, a novel by upton sinclair, helped fuel the change through sanitation in the workplace.
- Explains that the troubling conditions that needed to be changed didn't come about until several years after thousands had immigrated to america.
- Explains that the dreamy life that seemed to be waiting wasn't. employers and factory owners realized that new, fresh loads of workers would settle for any type of pay when they got desperate enough.
- Analyzes how the jungle, a novel by upton sinclair, helped fuel the change through sanitation in the workplace.
- Explains that the troubling conditions that needed to be changed didn't come about until several years after thousands had immigrated to america.
- Explains that the dreamy life that seemed to be waiting wasn't. employers and factory owners realized that new, fresh loads of workers would settle for any type of pay when they got desperate enough.
- Explains that factory operators would search the surrounding lands and "recruit" people from farms and villages to work in mills. the agents lured thousands with images of the incredibly "glamorous life that awaited," but upon reaching the workplace, many began to dread the situation.
- Explains that the working conditions were demonic and the pay was very little. children, some too young to go to school and others too poor, would work as long as the grown men and not make half of three hundred dollars a year.
- Opines that the factory is an earthly hell. there is no sweetness, beauty, or joy.
- Describes how a journalist named upton sinclair heard about the circumstances of the factory workers and mill laborers, and decided to do some research. he set his story in "the stockyards of chicago."
- Explains that upton sinclair was determined to "expose the shocking conditions that immigrant workers endured."
- Analyzes how sinclair's marvelous descriptions aroused public attention, but not in the way he had hoped. instead, readers were shocked by the "sickening conditions of the meatpacking industry."
- Explains that even the president read the book after the uproar began. he appointed a commission of experts to investigate the industry and pushed for passage of the meat inspection act.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair's book, the jungle, had a huge impact on the pay and working conditions of laborers today.
1086 wordsRead More - The Jungle by Upton Sinclairanalytical essay“The Jungle,” written by Upton Sinclair in 1906, describes how the life and challenges of immigrants in the United States affected their emotional and physical state, as well as relationships with others. The working class was contrasted to wealthy and powerful individuals who controlled numerous industries and activities in the community. The world was always divided into these two categories of people, those controlling the world and holding the majority of the power, and those being subjected to them. Sinclair succeeded to show this social gap by using the example of the meatpacking industry. He explained the terrible and unsafe working conditions workers in the US were subjected to and the increasing rate of corruption, which created the feeling of hopelessness among the working class.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how sinclair's "the jungle" describes how the life and challenges of immigrants in the united states affected their emotional and physical state, as well as relationships with others.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair succeeded in showing the nature of wage slavery occurring in america in the beginning of the twentieth century.
- Analyzes how sinclair conveyed the danger and terrible working conditions of the poor workers in the meatpacking industry to the general audience reading the book.
- Analyzes how sinclair's "the jungle" describes how the life and challenges of immigrants in the united states affected their emotional and physical state, as well as relationships with others.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair succeeded in showing the nature of wage slavery occurring in america in the beginning of the twentieth century.
- Analyzes how sinclair conveyed the danger and terrible working conditions of the poor workers in the meatpacking industry to the general audience reading the book.
- Analyzes how sinclair highlighted and exposed the ills and problems of the community in this period of industrialization in order to attract people's attention to the unhealthy practices in the meatpacking industry.
- Explains that sinclair wanted to achieve and promote social changes in the community in order to change people's life for the better and reduce the gap between poor and wealthy individuals residing in america.
- Analyzes how sinclair succeeded in showing and revealing the nature and psychology of american capitalism developing during that period of time.
- Describes the life and working activity of lithuanian immigrants coming to chicago to find a better and more productive life. the idea of the american dream was also touched in the present book.
- Analyzes how sinclair's novel exposed the inadequacy of jurgis' conventional masculinity ridiculing the conceit of his self-sufficiency and strength.
- Explains sinclair's description of political corruption in a democracy, stating that it affects people’s life, professional activity, and management of various industries contributing to the country. immigrants were treated unfairly and improperly.
- Analyzes how sinclair acted as the animal-right activist helping americans understand where their food comes from by exposing the meatpacking industry. his book pushed congress to pass the law regarding food safety.
- Analyzes how industrial meat production was covered in the book indirectly specifying animal well-being, non-human living conditions, environmental pollution, and specific illnesses associated with this activity.
- Explains how the immigrant life was represented in detail in the present book helping to understand the major reasons why people came to live in america hoping to find better working opportunities and living conditions.
- Explains that the population of cities increased greatly during that period, which limited the number of available work for people. the meatpacking industry changed from an agricultural to industrial country.
- Analyzes how deinzer stated that people coming to america experienced what it meant to be an immigrant worker in need of money and without any knowledge of the language.
- Analyzes how upton sinclair attracted much public attention to the meatpacking industry showing the terrible truths and details not only about the working conditions and nature of people's work but also about this business in general.
- Concludes that sinclair's writing was so influential it prompted government action.
1571 wordsRead More - The Case Farms Chicken Plantexplanatory essayCase Farms chicken plant is one of the most dangerous workplaces in America today, it has been cited 240 violations and fined close to two million dollars. An immigrant from Guatemala, Osiel López Pérez was hired at Case Farms at seventeen years old, by law being too young to work in a factory, while working at the chicken plant he lost his leg due to the unsafe regulations. Upton Sinclair writes about the same events and conditions that occur in the workplace through his novel, The Jungle, describing illegal and unsanitary working regulations in the meatpacking industry.
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- Explains that case farms chicken plant is one of the most dangerous workplaces in america today. osiel lópez pérez, an immigrant from guatemala, lost his leg while working at the plant due to unsafe regulations.
- Explains that case farms chicken plant is one of the most dangerous workplaces in america today. osiel lópez pérez, an immigrant from guatemala, lost his leg while working at the plant due to unsafe regulations.
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