Summary Of Uncle Tom's Cabin By Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair was a revered writer and social crusader who in the process of trying to alert the public of the many issues in America became an “accidental muckraker”. Muckrakers were journalist devoted to exposing the social and political corruption In America.

At the tender age of five, Upton Sinclair wrote his first book. It described a pig that ate a pin that appeared in a family’s sausage. His family moved their life to New York when he was ten years old. There, Sinclair received schooling and a good college education from Columbia even though his father was a traveling liquor salesman and an alcoholic. To support himself, Sinclair started writing at age fifteen and supported himself through college.

After graduating from Columbia in

His most popular book, The Jungle was published in 1906 and was an instant success. No novel in American history, other than Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel; Uncle Tom’s Cabin, had more impact on the political issues in America. The Jungle was a fictional novel devoted to exposing the unbelievable conditions of the meat packing industry in Chicago’s “Packing town”. Packing town was the end product of four big meat packing companies who based their operations in few cities. These giant corporations bought smaller slaughter houses so they could more easily control the market. Chicago was the most popular city to build base operations. Since Chicago’s economy was mostly supported by meat packing factories, many workers in Chicago did not complain about or quite due to the appalling work conditions because they knew that getting another job somewhere else was almost impossible. Not only did Sinclair’s description of the disease-ridden and unhealthy process of making meat was true, it also had enormous impacts on the way the public viewed products of the meat industry and largely affected the sales of these giant

It was a novel that described the killings of striking miners and their families in the state of Colorado. Sinclair also wrote a book about the famous case of Sacco and Vancetti. Sacco and Vancetti were two criminals devoted to destroying the government by using violence. They were taken to court, found guilty for robbery and murder and quickly executed. Sinclair named this novel Boston and published it in 1928. One of his other popular novels, called Dragons Teeth, was published in 1942. The novel described the horrors of Nazi Germany, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943.

Upton Sinclair started reading about socialism during his struggle to make it as a novelist. He began to believe in the ideals that Socialism offered. In 1903, Sinclair became a member of the Socialist Party. About a year later, he started writing articles for a socialist magazine called Appeal to