The Jungle Upton Sinclaire
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle takes place in Packingtown, an area of Chicago, around the turn of the 20th century. This book takes an intimate look at an immigrant family facing the hardships of a laborer’s life, trying to fight the hollowness of the American Dream, how capitalism essentially breaks a family apart. The main goal of The Jungle is to exploit capitalist world and try to persuade the reader that socialism is the way out of the evils of capitalism. This book also uncovered the dangerous and unsanitary conditions of the meat packing plants that sold diseased and rotten meat to unsuspected customers, which led to various acts to guarantee sanitary conditions. Upton Sinclair uses a naïve Lithuanian immigrant family in this novel to reveal the troubles and difficulties they have when they come to American expecting high wages and a good life. The hypocrisy
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Approximate Word count = 586
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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