American Literature / Unit 12 AML 1119 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Upton Sinclair and *The Jungle*
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The idea
Sinclair, whom the witness lists among the naturalists, wrote The Jungle about immigrant workers in the Chicago stockyards, intending an argument for socialism. Readers were horrified instead by the descriptions of the meat, and federal inspection law followed.
In practice
Aimed at the heart, and it hit the stomach.
Where people slip
The book's effect was not the one intended.
Your place on the trail
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