Upton Sinclair

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over the top. In 1900 Sinclair married his first wife. This was a start of a whole new era of writing for him. By 1904 Sinclair was moving toward a realistic fiction type of writing. He had become a regular reader of the "Appeal to Reason", which was a popular socialist-populist weekly magazine at that time. Upton’s big break came in 1906 when he published a book called, " The Jungle." As a writer this is where Sinclair gained most of his fame. This book gave him not only fame, but it also led to the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. This book had the deepest impact since Harriet Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The books popularity enabled Sinclair to establish and support the socialistic Helicon Home Colony in Englewood, N.J. However the popularity of his type of writing fell away after that year. After " The Jungle" was written it set off many similar studies of a group, and industry. or a region. Among some of them were: "The Metropolis" (1908) which was a exploration of New York ...

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power of literature to improve human conditions at home and in the work place. He was deeply committed to social justice. Sinclair used his pen to expose corruption and injustice. Throughout his life Sinclair was a vocal supporter of socialism.

Now I will compare 2 of Upton Beall Sinclair’s writings in detail. In his first popular writing, The Jungle, Upton shows the life of a worker in the meat-packing plants of Chicago. The Book starts out with a man named Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant, who arrives in America dreaming of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. He finds work in the filthy Chicago stockyards, where the backbreaking work and treatment of workers is two much for ...

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