The Jungle Book Reports

The novel, The Jungle was written by American journalist, Upton Sinclair. When I hear this book come up I almost always think of “the book about the meat packing industry and the bad conditions that people lived in”. I feel like you are a good author if you can write a book that people will hear and instantly be able to state the main idea of it. I feel that Upton Sinclair is a great example of that sort of author. This novel is a novel that I knew what it was about before I read it and it wasn’t until it became an actual assignment that I was forced to it read and thought it was actually really good. Something that I liked about the book was that it was about a family rather than just society as a whole without a specific perspective.

For instance instead of Jurgis’ life sucking and then it gets better, his life was bad then got worst, then got better and then turned around and became right back bad. Then other things started to happen and everything was all good. I was also pretty disgusted to know about some of the ingredients that went into the sausages and beef like the cigarette butts and poisoned rats. That was really hard to take in. Although the book did hold my interest. I don’t really care for a book without a definite answer or ending because it’s up to me to have to figure out the conclusion and figure out solutions. Also, this book makes me think about all of the social problems that we have in society now and have yet to fix. I think that this book should be a book required to read in every history class at least one year in grade school and broken down and takin further into in college. It would make history so much more interesting. I was always one to think that being able to see the graphicness and understand the real life situations that people actually encountered before America was what it is now. In conclusion I really enjoyed this book. I think that Upton Sinclair is a great writer. I feel like the plot could have went a bit differently in the sense of it being better but it still made sense so it was okay. I feel like the best parts were the detail and the graphic descriptions presented to the reader and