What Are The Risks Of The Jungle By Upton Sinclair

There are thousands of literatures in this world, every book contains the painstaking and diligent efforts of the author, and some are especially valuable because authors take many risks to finish them. Writers will take risks in many ways like the content, the structure and the format of the book. There is a novel named The Jungle, the author Upton Sinclair also takes many risks to finish and publish it. Those risks do have some advantages, however, on the other hand, they also have disadvantages, and why did he want to take those risks? What is the main purpose for those risks? There are a bunch of things about risks that readers could evaluate. As for the risks that the writer taking in The Jungle, firstly, the content of The Jungle is so

He tries his best to find job and work hard to bread this family. Nevertheless, another bad news attacked him. One day, after he finished his work come back home, he finds every women in his family is crying. His son, Antanas run to the street and was drown in a puddle due to no one watch him. Jurgis feels hopeless, he lost his wife and now, he loses his son. He becomes degenerate because this world and also because himself. He starts to rob others with a friend he made in the jail. After that, Jurgis finds a job in meatpacking plant and gradually, he becomes a scab. When he thinks his life is going better, he meets his old enemy, Ona’s boss. Jurgis attacks him for the second time. The only thing he can do to avoid to go to prison is post bail. Then he becomes a beggar. After he becomes a beggar, he has joined a free political meeting, he finally discovers his hope, the socialism. Then, he joins into movement for workers' rights and fights for his new life. That’s the summary for whole story. The Jungle is a novel about blood and sweat, the struggle to the fate, that’s the first highlight of content, and the second highlight is about food safety. When the author wrote the manufacture process for meat production that Jurgis saw in the meat picking industries, the horrible scene shocked every audience. In order to emphasize these points, he takes two critical

Why doesn’t he write something amicable and encourage people to believe the government? The answers to those questions need to seek in the background of the year when this book was published and the author’s own identity. During the author writing this book, it’s the beginning of the Progressive Era, with the growth of economics, it also increased the gap between the poor and the rich, and what’s more, “Trust”, one of the shapes of Monopoly also derive from this age. In the text, Ona’s boss allude to the beef “Trust”, the text illustrated the privilege of those Trusts and the endless cupidity they have. Due to these situations, writers and journalists appeal to the public to defend by exposing the negative social events like the corruption of American government. Those writers and journalists were called “Muckrakers”, Upton Sinclair was one of them. In order to stay on his position and support the muckrakers, he chose to tell the truth to American public instead of keeping silence. Then, “The Jungle” became his weapon to oppose the trusts and some corrupt officials. Although the content is dangerous and risky, it’s also effective and worth. People responded dramatically to this book, the risk has valuation for Upton Sinclair to take and hook the