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The Jungle

The Jungle. Upton Sinclair. Tone.

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The Jungle

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  1. The Jungle Upton Sinclair

  2. Tone Sinclair wrote The Jungle in a sad tone. Doing this, he created sympathy among the reader, his exact reason for writing. By doing this, he would seek to empower the nation to change some of the injustices of the time period. His tone is very important to the text because it would eventually inspire the Meat Inspection Act. “Such were the cruel terms upon which their life was possible, that they might never have nor expect a single instant’s respite from worry, a single instance in which they were not haunted by the thought of money.”

  3. Imagery “Under the system of rigid economy which the packers enforced, there were some jobs that it only paid to do once in a long time, and among these was the cleaning out of the waste-barrels. Every spring they did it; and in the barrels would be dirt and rust and old nails and stale water- and cart load after cart load of it would be taken up and dumped into the hoppers with fresh meat, and sent out to the public’s breakfast.” Sinclair’s use of imagery are critical to the text. Without the vivid descriptions used in the novel, Americans may not have been so horrified of the realistic conditions of the meatpacking industry.

  4. Voice “The winter went, and the spring came, and found them still living thus from hand to mouth, hanging on day by day, with literally not a month’s wages between them and starvation.” The voice used in the text is from a first person point of view so that you can understand the experiences as the characters are struggling through the novel and also in third person so that you know everything that is occurring around the family that the story surrounds.

  5. Irony “There could be no trifling in a case like this, it was a matter of life and death; little Stanislovas could not be expected to realize that he might a great deal better freeze in the snow-drift than lose his job at the lard machine.” Irony is used seldom in the text. Here, it is ironic that even the children go to work to keep the family alive, but in harsh conditions, when it is compromising for them to get to work, it is better for the family if they had died in the storm on the way to work.

  6. The End!! Roxanne Bannon

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