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The Jungle
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The Jungle, Upton Sinclair’s muckraking masterpiece, stands as one of America’s great indictments of persecution, and it has never been out of print since its initial publication in 1906. Sinclair’s documentary novel centers on Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant working in Chicago’s infamous Packingtown. Instead of finding the American Dream, Rudkus and his family inhabit a brutal, soul-crushing urban jungle dominated by greedy bosses, pitiless con-men, and corrupt politicians. While Sinclair’s main target was the industry’s appalling labor conditions, the reading public was most outraged at the revelation of the disgusting filth and garbage in American food production. This outcome prompted Sinclair to proclaim: “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.” As a result, President Theodore Roosevelt demanded an official investigation, which eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws. For a novel to have such an impact outside its literary context is extremely rare. At the time of The Jungle’s publication, the only novel to have led to such significant social change was the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Today, The Jungle remains a relevant portrait of capitalism at its worst and an impassioned account of the human spirit in the face of nearly insurmountable challenges.

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(Please recognize that several a sic are implied in the following reviews.) its actually complex and silly! why cant we be studying like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at the very least that book is excellent! There you have it. Refreshingly, not a review written in among the witch's voices or alluding to Hillary and Bill Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Only a primal shout unleashed into the dark wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teen, but I admire his power to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation with an economy and a clarity that renders his convictions all the more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's overview of exactly the same play. You may'know'MICHAEL; he is the'Problems Architect'here at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in so it implies that he designs problems... which can be the case, for several I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to learn is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks in the first place, if it had been supposed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not a play. On top of that the teach had us students browse the play aloud (on person for every single character for a couple pages). None folks had see the play before. None of us wanted to learn it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared as if they weren't paying attention. This compounded to create me more or less hate reading classics for something similar to 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And it also can really fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between the writer and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to learn plays is wrong, and in the event that you require anyone, under duress, to learn a play then you definitely have sinned and are going to hell, in the event that you believe in hell. If not, you're going to the DMV. I'm also tired of all you smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists along with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of a note overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age when we are taught to respect each other's differences, it appears offensively egocentric and mean-spirited to anticipate others tokowtow in your small linguistic rules. Inspired concept may cost-free themselves regardless how you might try in order to shackle it. 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