Literary Techniques In Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

“With one member trimming beef in a cannery, and another working in a sausage factory, the family had a first-hand knowledge of the great Packingtown swindles” (par.1). This statement from Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle, introduces trust from a family because of their own personal knowledge . The Jungle, features an immigrant family trying to survive in 1900’s Chicago meat packing district. In the story, Sinclair’s goal is to expose the miserable life of immigrants who work in factories.

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair follows the main character Jurgis Rudkus who is an immigrant from Lithuania. Jurgis immigrated to the United States and made his way to Chicago in order to follow the path of a legendary hometown name, Jokubas, who supposedly made a lot of money in the states. Upon reaching the United States and arriving in Chicago they realized it would be much harder to establish an income in a city they weren’t familiar with. Their luck changed when they happened upon the infamous Jokubas and found out he ran a local delicatessen in the stockyards in Chicago. Jokubas helped them find a place to sleep for the night in a boarding house while they used those first days to look for work in order to move to a nicer place of living.

The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair, is about a Lithuanian family that travels to Chicago in pursuit of the American Dream. When writing this novel, Sinclair sought to build support for the Socialist Party and the working class. In preparation for writing The Jungle, Sinclair spent weeks in Chicago’s meat packing plants to study the lives of its stockyard workers. When the novel was first published, readers were more concerned with the health standards and conditions in which the meat was processed rather than the socialist message that Sinclair intended. The Jungle is also often associated with the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act both in 1906, the year the novel was published (Source A).

Jurgis Rudkus, the main character in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, has a very rough journey when he moves to America from Lithuania. He faces many hardships and they're difficult for anyone to endure. Throughout the novel Jurgis is put through the justice/prison system multiple times, and each time he experienced something new, whether it be the unjust treatment he received, the food he was served, or even the condition of his cell and daily life there. The novel portrayed the justice system as an unfair one. They treat immigrants and the poor unfairly.

The overcrowded apartments and rooms foster poverty. Eviction from his greedy landlord is an ever-looming fear for Raskolnikov. He becomes trapped within the vicious cycle of poverty and place. For example, he pawns a watch to his landlady who offers him a meager amount for the watch. Raskolnikov, Raskolnikov cannot accept anything lower due to his debt to her.

Many years passed and Benjamin Franklin grew to strongly dislike Silas Deane and Arthur Lee because they did not work well together. This was the time period where Benjamin Franklin met John Adams. This is where Robert Middlekauff switches from talking about Benjamin Franklin to John Adams. John Adams was naturally an awkward man who lacked in the usage of words at appropriate times. Growing up John Adams disliked school so much that he rebelled and wanted to become a farmer like his father.

This fact doesn’t help this research, but helps put background to one major factor. In other words, his father in this family was an alcoholic and tend to be abusive. This leads to family members running away to where his sister, Niculina Rusescu, lived. With the combination of this, he was also bad at school and was illiterate. His parents decided to make him get an apprenticeship with a cobbler.

Throughout the book the lives of the Youngers have been full of struggles, and their own aspirations, however due to Walter, and his selfishness he will lead the family downhill as they begin their new lives in Clybourne Park. Due to the death of Mama’s husband Mr. Younger, and his life insurance policy. The family anxiously waiting

Unoka, who is Okonkwo’s father, was a failure. His wife and children did not have enough foods to eat and he owed almost every villager money (Achebe, 5). Life was hard for Okonkwo because Unoka was a lazy father who did not bother to think about his future. Okonkwo was not able to focus on other events because he was busy trying to feed and support his family. Okonkwo did not start his life as everybody else did (Achebe, 16).

He begins to work for Kamaswami, but struggles because being merchant went against everything he has been working towards his entire life. Guilt accompanies leaving behind beliefs that we have followed our whole lives. This was the case with Siddhartha. He used the money he had earned to indulge in activities that are not good for him like gambling and drinking. Like many people who aren’t content with life, Siddhartha broke down and went to a dark place.

It is very hard for them to find jobs, and once they do, they get paid little to no money at all. Both the Flint Water Crisis and The Jungle have many similarities. They both are real life stories on how government officials let many people suffer due to corruption in the government. Both the Flint Water Crisis and The Jungle have corrupt governments. The citizens

In the chapter Negocios, readers get background on the father’s immigration journey to the United States. We see the father struggle to financially, mentally, and physically. While reading the chapter Aguantando we saw the family struggle as well and assumed that the father was living this fancy life in the states. The family was extremely poor they barley had enough money to buy food for them to eat. In this chapter the father appeared to be the bad guy because he did not send money or come back to bring the rest of the family to the United States.

John Cheever’s inner conflictions in the midst of his struggles with marriage and finances are mirrored in the actions and words of his characters and the themes which his stories portray. ***No intro paragraph yet*** Like many of his literary characters, John Cheever began his life in the suburbs, in Quincy, Massachusetts along with his parents and brother Frederick. The child of well-to-do parents, Cheever’s father was the owner of a prosperous shoe sale business. However, during the depression with the economy failing, the business was lost and the family fell into the clutches of poverty.

Jefferson was accused of plotting the assignation of Abraham Lincoln. He was arrested for it but later released on bond. His reputation has now been ruined and it was hard for him to find a job. He traveled many times leaving his wife Varina behind. Not having her husband around took a toll on her.

In chapters 9-12, Sinclair makes a point about how the search and need for money can cause people to behave selfishly. In those chapters, it is revealed that Jonas, Teta Elzbieta 's brother, abandoned the family because he was tired of working diligently and not being allowed to use his hard-earned money. It is also disclosed that Jurgis had lost his job as a result of his injury because the foreman "had found someone else to do the work as well and did not want to bother to make a change" (219). The foreman believed that reserving Jurgis ' job for him and would an inconvenience and refused to make room for both Jurgis and his replacement because that would mean paying two men for something that can be done by one man. Sinclair also