Muckraking
the Meat-Packing Industry
. Upton Sinclair
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What social problem did Upton Sinclair’s novel ‘The Jungle’ describe?
The despair of immigrants working in Chicago stockyards & revealed the unsanitary conditions in the industry
.
What point of view is The Jungle?
Because The Jungle is told from
a third-person, omniscient point of view
, insight into what a character thinks, says, and does isn’t available firsthand. Readers are told what happens; therefore, the most telling information readers gain into Jurgis and his family is from the narrator.
What acts were made by The Jungle?
Within months, two pieces of legislation resulted from Sinclair’s novel:
The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act
, both signed into law on June 30
th
, 1906.
How were the immigrants treated in The Jungle?
The foreigners are treated
like slaves and women are forced into prostitution
, but there is no way out because of judges like ‘Growler’ Pat that despise foreigners. The family is forced to sacrifice their morals just to survive.
What is the main problem in the Jungle Book?
The first is
an external conflict with the tiger Shere Khan
; this conflict, in which the tiger is trying to hunt and kill Mowgli and Mowgli and his friends are trying to kill the tiger in self-defense, occupies a considerable part of the narrative.
What is the most awful part of what you read in The Jungle?
As a Socialist novel
it’s unconvincing: The ending
, in which Jurgis Rudkus converts to socialism, is the worst part of the book.
Why was The Jungle banned?
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. … While several of Sinclair’s other novels were banned
due to their explicit language
, The Jungle came under scrutiny by Senator Joe McCarthy for its Communist sympathies in 1953.
What is the message of The Jungle?
Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle
to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry
. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws. Before the turn of the 20th century, a major reform movement had emerged in the United States.
What is the plot of The Jungle?
The main plot of The Jungle follows
Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus, who came to the United States in the hope of living the American dream, and his extended family
, which includes Ona, Jurgis’s wife; Elzbieta, Ona’s stepmother; Elzbieta’s six children; Marija, Ona’s cousin; and Dede Rudkus, Jurgis’s father.
How many letters a day did Roosevelt receive after The Jungle was published?
About a month after “The Jungle” was published, the White House started receiving “
100 letters a day
demanding a Federal cleanup of the meat industry,” Alden Whitman wrote in Sinclair’s obituary. (He died on Nov. 25, 1968.) Roosevelt invited Sinclair to the White House, then ordered a federal investigation.
What was passed in response to The Jungle?
Sinclair’s veracity having thus been confirmed, Congress passed
the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act
in June 1906. In addition to prohibiting mislabeled and adulterated food products, these two laws paved the way for all future consumer protection legislation.
Who dies in the jungle?
- Shere Khan – trampled by buffaloes.
- Tabaqui – executed by Grey Brother after interrogating him.
- Father wolf & Raksha – cause of deaths unknown.
- Dholes – some were killed by a bee swarm, the rest were killed by Mowgli and the wolf pack.
- Won-Tolla – succumbs to his wounds after killing the lead dhole.
What was the Jungle Progressive Era?
The Jungle was Upton Sinclair’s infamous 1906 novel that was a story that brought to light the problems in the meat industry. It was tied to the rise of the Progressive Era was
all about getting the government more involved with society problems
instead of letting society take care of itself through natural selection.
What was one result of Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle?
Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle changed the way Americans looked at the food industry. As a result of his book,
Americans no longer trusted that the food industry had the best interests of consumers in mind when they prepared or handled food
. The terrible conditions in the meat industry led to demands for reform.
