Cause And Effect Of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

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In this research paper introduction, it will consist of the twentieth century and the cause and effect of the book. The Jungle, which exposed of the meatpacking industry, became an enormous bestseller translated into seventeen languages within weeks of its publication in 1906. But while The Jungle has long been associated with food production and its disgustingness, the book is actually a much smaller part of an early twentieth-century business, labor practices in rapidly growing cities in the United States. During the early 20th century, contributing a public outcry which led to reform the Meat Inspection Act. Sinclair said the public reaction "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident, I hit it in the stomach."
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Anyone who lied and cheated to make a living was wealthy. This was the way a Capitalist and greedy society was presented in the book. It showed that a hard worker was not rewarded, and was disposed of when he or she became a burden. The book portrayed an honest, hard working lower class, and a dishonest, lazy upper class. No middle class was described.In this prompt, it gives out every fact and important major parts of Upton Sinclair's “The Jungle. In it; it talks about how the book was able to disturb generations to come. The novel is not only taught in English classes, as a powerful example of early twentieth-century naturalism. It say’s the book was so powerful that it was able to change government regulations. Not only does it talk about the book but also the author himself. It clearly defines the more important characters in the novel. It’s completely organized in chronological order. Also telling the end of the book about the protagonist reuniting with his family. Showing it was struggling to get back to his family. In this prompt, it gives out every fact and important major parts of Upton Sinclair's “The Jungle. In it; it talks about how the book was able to disturb generations to come. The novel is not only taught in English classes, a powerful example of early twentieth-century …show more content…

It reveals his personality from a younger age to when he wrote the book and so forth. This novel affected society the way he wanted all of his books to do. He was a determined writer throughout his long life, and everything he wrote was written with the intent of changing society. When he was eighteen, he started selling his stories to Street and Smith, a somewhat popular publisher that printed popular fiction books which were usually poorly written.The first seventeen chapter are about the struggles faced by one extended family from the eastern European country of Lithuania. They tried to settle in America, only to find themselves destroyed by the economic system. The book starts with hope and passion, with the marriage of Jurgis Rudkus to Ona Lukoszaite. Only to build your love of the characters and tear them apart in Chicago. Yet the reason Sinclair traveled to Chicago and wrote: "The Jungle" was to expose the horrid living and working conditions of immigrants through his fictional character, Lithuanian Jurgis Rudkus. When he came to Chicago, he's reported to have jumped off the train and said, “I’m here to write the Uncle Tom's Cabin’ of