foundations have opened up many doors for the children of today to further their education without putting enormous strain on their entire family. The book The Jungle was an extremely interesting book to read for me. Sinclair’s in depth details during many of the scenes was unbelievably disgusting. The fact that people had to live like that during those times is ridiculous. For the most part the people who worked in the packinghouses might as well have been slaves. If they were slaves they would at least be given a place to stay and enough food to stay able to work. But still neither of these situations could have helped their dignity, for that had to be completely lost. I cannot imagine being able to pay my bills one year and the very next year have to resort to getting on my hands and knees and begging for money. I know that desperate times call for desperate measures, but I do not think that I could sacrifice my pride so far as to beg in the streets to the same people who had put me there in the first place. In conclusion, I would like to leave you with a little information about Upton Sinclair’s life and career. The author of The Jungle's, Upton Sinclair, life is best characterized by one word prolific: during the course of seventy-six years he wrote dozens of books, pamphlets, and plays as well as hundreds of articles, speeches, and letters on every conceivable subject for a man who was interested in social conditions and social changes. Estimates in the early 1900’s give him 90 published books and 772 translations of these books in 47 languages and 39 countries. How many millions of words the output represents would be extremely difficult to calculate, though in the early years of his writing career he was producing 2 million words a year. Born Upton Bell Sinclair, Jr., on September 20, 1878, in Baltimore, he was the son of parents who were southern by ancestry. The family was poor as the result of his fatherR...
