The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair was an important novel for the Twentieth Century in American history and made a big role in how industries, people, and American society in general functions like it does today. Industrialization was one of the many themes that made The Jungle an important role in American history. ... Immigration was also another theme that Upton Sinclair brought up, so people could understand what life was like for them at the time. ... The novel showed the hardships immigrants had to go through, and what The novel showed how the Labor Movement in the 1920's affecte...

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Later in the novel, Jurgis becomes involved in the political machine. ... During the course of the novel, Sinclair uses many themes. One major theme is materialism and merciless competition that made America into a metaphorical jungle. ... So during the course of the novel, Sinclair uses these themes to illustrate his point. ... Also, Sinclair took a kind of nonfictional approach to writing the novel. ...

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The Jungle is a novel written by Upton Sinclair. The jungle deals with the extreme working conditions in factories in the early 1900s, and socialism. ... The novel was written using a sequential order of events. Two of the most important themes of the story are the working conditions and socialism. ... In the Jungle many of the workers thought that socialism was the answer for all their problems. ...

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The Jungle, By Upton Sinclair. ... In fact, a main theme presented throughout The Jungle is hard work in hard times. ... Because The Novel is based in the industrial, early 1900's and Sinclair's main point is to show the trials of working men, the industrial environment of Packingtown, Chicago is a perfect setting for a narration that will support the themes of the novel. ... Research will however, prove that Sinclair did investigate the meat packing industry rather heavily before writing The Jungle. ... After reading Sinclair's The Jungle one will gain sympathy and understandin...

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The Jungle, published in 1906, was one of Sinclair's most popular novels and a perfect example of muckraking. ... Death was a major issue in the novel. The deaths in The Jungle shed light on the theme that capitalist societies will do whatever it takes to get what they desire, sacrificing weak lives in the way. ... Propaganda is evident everywhere in the novel. ... In doing so he created a perfect example of a muckraking novel - The Jungle. ...

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The Chicago stockyard setting plays a vital role in revealing the characters and the capitalistic theme of the novel. ... The first half of the novel is very depressing. ... Morris adds, "the most meticulously realistic part of Sinclair's oeurve is the first twenty-one chapters of The Jungle, up until the death of little Antanas. ... The author uses this novel to take a stab at the reoccurring theme of Capitalism and promotes the use of Socialism. ... The last quarter of the novel is directed towards the socialist movement. ...

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Upton Sinclair's novel the Jungle illustrates how greed and ruthless competition has made turn of the century America into a brutal jungle.Take or be taken? ... The Packingtown Beef trust was part of the capitalist jungle. ... In addition I have chosen as my theme? ... I have chosen this theme because it reflects how most businesses operate today in the 1990. ... Following graduation, Sinclair went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where he began writing full-length novels with serious social themes. ...

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In the movie Apocalypse now, the characters, events and themes involved in the story are based on the novel "Heart of Darkness". ... Benjamin Willard who is sent to find the person in the inner stations causing turmoil in the jungle. The setting of the film takes place in the jungles of Vietnam, during the Vietnam War during the 1970's while the novel takes place in the jungles of Africa during the era of Imperialism. ... Both novel and film portrayed Mr. ... The film portrays the themes of the novel in a well manner making it a good movie to understand the reading. ...

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In the novel the setting is the African jungle along the Congo River during the height of the ivory trade, whereas in the film the setting is the war torn Vietnam jungle down the Nung River, while ruthless and barbaric fighting is going on there. ... Like the novel, natives were used in Vietnam showing how the jungle was not civilized. ... (Apocalypse Now) While the setting was changed by Coppola the overall theme between the novel and the film stayed the same even though they take place in two totally different times in history. ... With the setting being in the Vietnam jungle during the...

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Heart of Darkness is a novel that depicts the adventure of one man. ... This novel forces one to examine his/her definitions of savagery and civilization. ... The novel begins on board the Nellie, a small European ship on the Thames River. ... The major theme this novel deals with is the conflict between what is savagery and what is civilized. ... This novel is perhaps the best depiction of good and evil I have ever read. ...

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The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, is a muckraking novel that exposed and documented the horrific conditions of Chicago stockyards in the early 20th century. According to The Health Anthology of American Literature "The underlying theme of the novel is of a political and social nature, illustrating the industrial exploitation of immigrants who were forced to work under unpleasant conditions." ... The theme of hopelessness is prevalent. ... Later in the novel, Jurgis becomes involved in the political machine. ... "The theme of the book is aptly described by its title, The Jungle. ...

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The Russian then takes a rifle and disappears into the jungle. ... Kurtz passion for gore and other deviating tendencies reflects that no one can escape the savagery of the jungle. Symbolism plays a large role in the novel by placing two powerful forces against each other. ... Symbolism was the main aspect of the underlying meaning of the novel. ... Theme: The darkness, the mysterious unknown, and opposing all progress were the major themes in the novel. ...

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Joseph Conrad's novel the Heart of Darkness, written in 1902, describes Marlow's journey through the Congo River. ... In this novel, the concept of isolation is an important theme that reappears throughout the dramatic structure. ... Drawn into a world of greed and evil in the jungle, Marlow struggles against its power to maintain his identity. ... The phrase "...yourself bewitched and cut off forever from everything you had known once..." states that people like Kurtz are so far into the jungle that they are isolated from society and they forget who he really are. ... Marlow'...

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" which for the novel is words reflecting the tragedy of Kurtz, and his transformation into an animal. ... If he didn't complete, then the Vietnam jungle would have conquered him. ... In "Apocalypse Now " Coppola is right on target when exploring the theme. The ultimate extreme of man's dark side, as explored in the novel and film, is madness. ... Kurtz was the victim to the jungle he was in.   ...

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John Steinbeck, the author of the novel, uses multiple literary techniques to convey the theme of brotherhood. ... Biblical allusion is also used in the novel to reveal the theme of brotherhood. ... A logical ending is also used in the novel to suggest the theme of brotherhood. ... Many other authors also use literary techniques to convey their themes in novels. An example of this is the author, Upton Sinclair of The Jungle. ...

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He wanders out of the jungle, followed by a fat boy named Piggy. ... It is therefore a novel about ideas, and its themes are as important as its plot. ... Throughout "Fahrenheit 451", the key themes of conformity, apathy, stagnancy and censorship are shown in a variety of ways. ... In truth, the entire text of Fahrenheit 451 is a discourse in theme. ... In these novels the things that people crave to have, but cannot, are shown. ...

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The way they live The story talks about the cruelty and the battering that lives the workers in the slaughterhouses of Chicago and the meat supplier industries abuses; The Jungle by Upton Sinclair try to picture the reality in this book. ... The American dream The theme of the book is aptly described by its title, The Jungle. Packingtown is a jungle, where the packers drive humans to live like animals. ... The American dream, the novel explains that after the death of Ona's father in Lithuania his farm was sold, and the family paid two-thirds of their inheritance to a local magist...

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In the novel, Heart of Darkness, the Europeans witness a life unlike any they have ever seen. ... Here he witnesses his first account of the jungle. ... This is the theme of a journey into Marlow's inner-self. ... Kurtz lost his sense of self in the jungle and his views changed. ... The jungle had not changed an...

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In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, Jack and Ralph as leaders differ from general to the very specific areas. The uninhabited jungle island that the boys crash - land on forms them into very inhumane creatures. ... As Ralph runs for his life through the jungle, he discovers that a ship has found the boys and that a sailor waits for them on the shore. ... The leadership roles of Jack and Ralph differ greatly throughout the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding. While there are many other smaller themes, the main use of contrasting Jack and Ralph through their leadershi...

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"Apocalypse Now" was released in 1979 after two years in the making, as Coppola's modern interpretation to Joseph Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness (Harris). ... If he completes the mission he is still civil, if he does not, the Vietnam jungle has conquered him. ... The jungle overcame the first soldier. ... Heart of Darkness, written in the late nineteenth century, was set in a wild African jungle frontier. ... Parallels in the movie and novel tie them together as a modern version or revision of an older masterpiece. ...

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His significance in this act changes from literal at that point in the novel to figurative when taken in context with the later events in Heart of Darkness. When the doctor asks in Marlow has a family history of mental illness, there is immediate foreshadowing about the madness that is to come in the novel. ... Conrad provides several examples of this theme throughout the novel. ... In the most literal sense, the "Heart of Darkness " is referring to the mysterious jungles of Africa that Marlow and his crew are entering. The jungle and river is frequently described as dark, brown, and swallowi...

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Two similar themes are that both in the novel and on the show alliances are formed then later broken. ... Both must find their own food but, in Lord of the Flies the boys hunt in the jungle with spears for pigs and in survivor Rich spears fish by the reef. ... Jack, with "the hunters", travels into the jungle armed with his spear to kill pigs for food and for the mere pleasure. ... The plots, settings, characters, and themes from the novel mirror those from the show. ... The moral of this fictional novel is illustrated in Survivor. ...

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The stream-of-consciousness technique, that is widely used in the novel and the narration, changed from calmly flowing to nervously jerking, makes its style remarkable. ... The contrast between past memory and present experience infuses the novel with a sense of contingency. ... One of the themes of the novel is the conflict between conventionality and unconventionality. ... Another theme of the novel is that the thoughts of individuals are connected in a way that transcends their separation. ... In the beginning of the novel Clarissa says, that she will get the flowers herself because Luc...

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