Student Critique of The Jungle By Upton Sinclair :: Upton Sinclair

The book The Jungle was introduced as a novel by Upton Sinclair was financed and produce with his own m whizzy. Upton Sinclair was a famous novelist and social crusader from California. He was born(p) on 20 September 1878 in Baltimore Md. He was the only youngster of Priscilla Harden and Upton Beall Sinclair. Upton Sinclairs childhood was lived in poverty, one where his father was an alcoholic, his dividing line as an alcohol salesman most likely contributed to his disease. And although his own family was extremely poor, he spent periods of time living with his wealthy grandparents. By living from one end of the extreme to the other he argued that this is what turned him into a socialist.1His family move to raw York and at fourteen he enrolled in the City College of New York. He wrote dime novels and stories for magazines and newpapers to pay for his college tuition. It was in New York where he became a fan of the Socialists Partys politics. Later in conduct Upton Sinclair wou ld numeration for the Governor of California where he would get 37% of the vote, and if it were not for his truthfulness at expressing his views Upton Sinclair would have won his bid for Governor. During the later course of his life he went on to write more muckraking novels. The Jungle was his forward-looking novel, it was told as a fictional story of Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant works in Packingtown.Jurgis sees his American dream of a decent life conclude into nightmare as his job hauling steer carcasses in the stockyards leaves him so physically drained that he was unable to support his family. This was not the life this immigrant expected when arrived in America. He loses his job when he beats up his boss, angry about finding out he had raped his wife, and then in a sense held her hostage as his mistress erudite that Jurgis wife is doing this to for the sake of her family. This character then loses the wife to disease and his countersign to drowning.Through this story telling Upton Sinclair had hoped the book would ignite a right on socialist movement on behalf of Americas workers. The publics attention was directed instead to his few than a dozen pages of supposed descriptions of unsanitary conditions in the meat packing plants. The Jungle hit upon more than his hatred of the meat packing industry.