the jungle

imac · **Posted:** January 22nd, 2008, 4:34 pm

here is the cover has anyone read or heard of the book it's a great book about a Lithuanian immigrant coming to "Packington" also known as Chicago trying to face the challenges of the U.S. in the early 1900s

Adbot · **Posted:** January 22nd, 2008, 4:34 pm

Davo · **Posted:** January 22nd, 2008, 10:40 pm

Wow, cool dude! lol i had to read that last semester in Civics class. I read three pages of it and "spark noted" all the rest. Got a 101% in the class for 1st semester so i guess it worked. XD I honestly couldn't handle the book. It was so depressing. I'm not gonna spoil it for ya if you haven't already read it, but be prepared for a very unhappy and gloomy book.

Just a heads up.

imac · **Posted:** January 23rd, 2008, 4:47 am

thats pretty bad if im 13 and your 16 and you can't read it lol but yea it is a very sad book his family dies he gets put out onto the street fights a saloon owner and is forced to beg

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** January 23rd, 2008, 6:01 am

This is so weird. When I saw your topic title, I immediately thought of that book. It's a very good book that had rather unintended consequences on Upton Sinclair's part. He wanted to show the horrible living conditions that these workers toiled under and how they were being exploited. What happened actually, was that the public really only zeroed in on the parts about disgusting meat-processing methods. After the book was released, the Pure Food and Drug Act was released and Teddy Roosevelt publicly said that he felt "poisoned" by the practices that these food processing plants used. It really drew away from the hardships that many immigrant workers faced in the US. It's great to see that younger people are reading this.

imac · **Posted:** January 23rd, 2008, 1:05 pm

yes im proably one of the only people in the grade that has the skill or attention span to read it and iv'e learned alot about life in the early 1900s

Cowboyofdeath · **Posted:** January 23rd, 2008, 1:16 pm

Just like MQ, the title immediately made me think of Upton Sinclair. Thank you US History class.

I might just read it.

Adbot · **Posted:** January 23rd, 2008, 1:16 pm

Davo · **Posted:** January 23rd, 2008, 9:36 pm

imac wrote:

thats pretty bad if im 13 and your 16 and you can't read it lol but yea it is a very sad book his family dies he gets put out onto the street fights a saloon owner and is forced to beg

Oh trust me I was capable of reading it XD, but I chose not to. Number one, because i hate reading tbh, and at the time we had to read it, I had an 8 page research paper and 2 speeches to work on as well. Its been a long time since ive been interested in a book were required to read for school lol.

Anyway yea i agree with MQ tho. Upton was trying to prove and depict a point about the horrible condidtions that the immigrants had to weather thru.

It worked too.