Upton Bell Sinclair Jr. was born on September 20, 1878 in Baltimore. Later, he

moved to New York and supported himself writing pulp fiction. In 1901, he privately

published his first novel, Springtime and Harvest (later named King Midas). The Jungle,

was Upton Sinclair's sixth novel and first commercially successful work and with part of

his proceeds he founded a Socialist cooperative in Englewood, New Jersey. Sinclair

wrote many novels after The Jungle, such as King Coal, Oil, and Boston. He received the

Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1943, for Dragon's Teeth, a anti-fascist novel on Nazism in

Germany. Sinclair died on November 15, 1968 at the age of ninety. Sinclair has been

widely published and translated throughout the world, with some 90 published books in

The Jungle was written to expose the filthy manufacturing practices of the packers

who used rotten, diseased, and contaminated meat. It was also written to tell how

Socialism was an answer to the problems of Capitalism.

The story starts out as a young immigrant Lithuanian couple, Jurgis Rudkus a

speaker his story and he takes him under his wing and teaches him about Socialism.

because this story is even more ridiculous then him jumping on the train, you'll just have

finally makes it to Packingtown, Chicago. Packingtown is a filthy, disgusting, sewage

because Sinclair wanted simple and uneducated people to understand his writing. Sinclair

Another thing I could not believe was how anti-climactic (all me) the ending was. I kept

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