‘The Jungle’ by Upton Sinclair
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Literary Analysis
During his journalist career for the newspaper, the Appeal to Reason, Upton Sinclair went undercover as worker in meat processing industries of Chicago. He went covert as meat industry worker to investigate the alleged complaints about the sordid conditions in meat industries and nearby inhabitants of unskilled workers.
‘The Jungle’ is the outcome of his experiences disguised as labor worker in the meat industry of Chicago. To be frank, the book impact so much in the food industry and related laws of the United States than the author actually planned.
Upton Sinclair in ‘The Jungle’ enumerates his experiences and observation through a fictional immigrant family.
The family immigrated from Lithuania to the United States for fulfilling the dream of economic freedom. Upton Sinclair finely illustrates the situations when a family immigrated from rural agricultural environment…
