The Food and Drug Adminstration from Upton Sinclair´s The...

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was about Jurgis Rudkus who was an immigrarnt from Lithuania that came to the United States to discover his dreams, hopes, and desires. He took his family to Chicago to begin a new life. He worked in meatpacking industries that were unsanitary and brutal amount of hours that resulted into starvation. He was mistreated and realized the American dream wasnt as easy as it seemed. The book deals with disease, hunger, corruption, crime, poverty and death. â€Å"Leave it to me; leave it to me. I will earn more money – I will work harder.† This was said by Jurgis frequently because him and Ona always struggled with money and having a job but Jurgis never wanted Ona to stress about those problems. Jurgis always took charge†¦show more content†¦Jurgis always struggled with money even when Ona was on the verge of dying. Jurgis finally convinced the women but Ona didn’t make it on time because it was too late already. Upton Sinclair sho ws you the struggle Jurgis went through with money and it wasn’t a fair life for him. When Jurgis lost both Ona and his son Antanas he was begging and a drunk man gave him a 100 dollar bill, that next day he enters a bar to receive change but the bartender tells him he has to buy a drink first, once he does the bartender only gives him 97 cents and refuses to give him his change. Jurgis then gets in a fist fight with him but then is sent to Jail. Once he was a prison he realized the life of crime was the best way to survive as an immigrant, then Jurgis finally loses his hope of getting that American dream he always wanted. Jurgis had a good reason to feel like this because he kept getting turned down by jobs and had nowhere to stay, he was homeless. The tittle of the book was misleading because I thought it was going to be about nature, but once you finish the book you realize it’s about surviving in the â€Å"wild†. Survival in the United States isn’t easy especially when you are an immigrant. The author did achieve the books purpose because once the book was published the FDA had a new law on sanitation. The writing the author used was extremely effective because practically every chapter was about the struggles Jurgis is going through and