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A Forever Change Today, when someone opens a package of meat, they can expect a fresh, quality piece of food. That person can look on the label of the package and determine exactly what is in the container. But in the early 1900’s this wasn’t so. It was common to find maggots feeding on rotten meat that would still be put on to a stovetop to be cooked, and served to the family. But the rotten meat was just the beginning of the concern; there was no telling that the meat was from a cow or pig as advertised. In the meat packing plants, if a workers arm got chopped off, no one would know the difference. An author by the name of Upton Sinclair traveled to the packing plants of Chicago to see the conditions that these workers lived in. The result of his trip was a book so impacting that the entire industry was changed forever. This book described the hopeless life of the citizens in the stockyards of Chicago. Sinclair’s imagery creates sympathy between the reader and the characters in The Jungle. Sinclair’s imagery pushed The Jungle into the nation’s spotlight. It shows how terrible life was for an ordinary human. “All day long the children of Aniele were raking in the dump for food for these chickens…” The children were digging through the dump looking for food, not for themselves, but for the chickens.
Approximate Word count = 861
Approximate Pages = 3.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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