Essays on The Jungle

Throughout history, there have been books that shocked the world and turned many ideals upside down. Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel, The Jungle, was one of these cases. It sent a shiver down typical Americans’ spines when the author described the horrendous working and living conditions...

During the industrial revolution in America, many immigrant families migrated from countries in Europe and Asia in hope of finding a better life in the land of the free. However, when they arrived by the boatload, they were met with poor working conditions and wages...

Charles Darwin put forward the idea that nature showed prevalent consistency in a pattern of “survival of the fittest.” In the classic realist novel The Jungle, this concept is also present throughout the entirety of the story. The narrative of a man named Jurgis avidly...

In the novel The Jungle, Upton Sinclair illustrates that “Neither the squeals of hogs nor tears of visitors made any difference to the workers; one by one they hooked up the hogs, and one by one with a swift stroke they slit their throats” exemplifying...

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was about Jurgis Rudku who was an immigrant from Lithuania that came to the United States to discover his dreams, hopes, and desires. He took his family to Chicago to start a modern life. He worked in meatpacking businesses that...

In the works of Daisy Miller and The Beast in the Jungle, author Henry James provides readers with multiple explanations as to why it is important for one to live a full life. These two novellas share many broad similarities, including central thematic focuses, a...

Welcome To The Jungle Not once in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair does the author reference the title in the text, but the meaning of it is grounded deep in the writing. According to Merriam-Webster, a jungle is defined as “a confused or disordered mass...

In this essay I will be exploring ideas surrounding an “underworld” in The Jungle. The Jungle was written in 1906 by the American novelist, Upton Sinclair, in order to show the world the evils of the American capitalist system. Sinclair documents the journey of an...

The novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair narrates the life story of Jurgis and the tortures that he suffers since his arrival in Chicago with his family. Throughout the story, Sinclair describes the hardships that Jurgis and his family face in this capitalist country. Sinclair,...

Sinclair had intended to expose the horrible conditions faced by immigrants as the tried to survive in Chicago’s Meat-Packing District in his 1904 novel, The Jungle. While he did an admirable job of showing the unfair labor, housing, and economic conditions in Packingtown he did...

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser are two extremely different books about the same topic: the American food industry. Paired excerpts explore the behind-the-scenes work that goes into processed food and how the industries mislead or deceive the public....

“The lash which drives [the modern slave—the slave of the factory, the sweat shop] cannot be either seen or heard… This slave is never hunted by bloodhounds, he is not beaten to pieces by picturesque villains, nor does he die in ecstasies of religious faith....

Kipling’s “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” Essay One of the most famous story in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is the “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”, has also been published as a short book. Many people read it as the story of a heroic mongoose. But we can also interpret “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” from...

The ad that I used was the new trailer for The Jungle Book. I chose this ad because it was the most recent ad that I saw. This trailer sold me, the instant I watched the video. First reason why is because at the beginning...

Assignment #3 Insight The Jungle book is one of the finest classics of the time, first the book, then the cartoon and now the movie has reached the top of the table of 2016. You may have read the book, watched the cartoon or the...

The novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair narrates the life story of Jurgis and the tortures and destruction that he suffers since his arrival to Chicago with his family. Throughout the story, Sinclair describes the cruelties that Jurgis and his family faces in this capitalist...

Major developments in the meatpacking industry from the early 1900’s to the present include laws put into place by Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to improve working conditions, protect animal welfare, and improve the quality of meat...

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle goes through a series of intense struggles experienced by a Lithuanian immigrant family who have migrated to the United States in hopes for a better life. Sinclair encompasses the realities the working-class experiences in the Urban America, he creates a sense...

When immigrating to America the idea which occurred in my mind was excitement since I can eventually achieve the American Dream that I has long been told. America where everyone is given opportunities to be successful despite their culture, social class or ethnic. Regarding “the...