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 published with his bear money. Upton Sinclair was a famous novelist and social crusader from California. He was born on 20 September 1878 in Baltimore Md. He was the only child of Priscilla Harden and Upton Beall Sinclair. Upton Sinclairs childhood was lived in poverty, one where his father was an alcoholic, his job as an alcohol salesman most likely contributed to his disease. And although his own family was extremely poor, he spent periods of time livelihood 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 moved to New 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 life Upton Sinclair would run for the Gover nor of California where he would get 37% of the vote, and if it were not for his honesty at expressing his views Upton Sinclair would have won his bid for Governor. During the later physique of his life he went on to write more muckraking novels. The Jungle was his groundbreaking novel, it was told as a fictional story of Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant running(a) in Packingtown.Jurgis sees his American dream of a decent life dissolve 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 to the highest degree finding out he had raped his wife, then in a sense held her hostage as his mistress knowing that Jurgis wife is doing this to for the sake of her family. This purpose then loses the wife to disease and his son to drowning.Through this story telling Upton Sinclai r had hoped the book would ignite a powerful socialist movement on behalf of Americas workers. The publics help was directed instead to his fewer than a dozen pages of supposed descriptions of unsanitary conditions in the aggregate packing plants. The Jungle hit upon more than his hatred of the meat packing industry.