Jokubas's Life In The Jungle By Upton Sinclair

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Upton Sinclair was born in Maryland in 1878. Was an American author who wrote more than 100 books. He was involved with socialism which encourage him to write about the meatpacking industries. Eventually he wrote a novel named the jungle resulted in the best-selling novel. When he was little he didn’t have an easy life. His one only child of a drunk man and strong willed mother. He was raised in poverty even though sometimes he was taken to his mother family which they were a wealthy family. When he was 10 his family moved to New York at the age of 14 he started going to college supported himself writing novel and routine. While he was in New York he developed an interest for moral and social justice. Many families around the world are always …show more content…

He never though he was going to get married, but in a horse festival he fell deeply in love with Ona. Jurgis is a hardworking man that enables him to find work with no problem while other are still standing in line he has found a job so easily. To celebrate Jokubas takes them to take a tour of Packingtown he takes them to the yard where there is a huge amount of cattle. Jokubas tells them all about them how are they weight, loaded on train then they are taken to the slaughterhouses, where they are killed and cut for food. The party continues and they end up in the meatpacking plant where they begin a tour of the factory. Jurgis has the idea of instead of renting a house they could buy one if everyone help a little. They could give a down payment and every month pays twelve dollars. When they finally decide that they will buy the house, the agent tries to sell them a house that it was not as advertised just that the agent could make profit. The family is really upset, when Jurgis gets home he is really furious he threatens to go out and killed the agent, but instead he find another lawyer that helps them. Now Jurgis is relieve he goes home and tell everyone of the good news and they are happy he didn’t kill the …show more content…

Even though prison is hard they still give him shelter food and clothing. They said the prison is better life than the outside. When he is released from prison he wanders the street of Chicago begging for food and money. He receives like two pennies every day he think that people are not going to care about his wellbeing society has their own live they are not going to bother about others. But one day he was face with a drunk guy that offered him to go with him at his house. Jurgis agreed upon arriving Jurgis could not believe such a huge house with a lot of expenses things. The man said that he own a meatpacking company. At the end of the story Jurgis conversion to socialism. The novel has a switch from narrative to

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