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? ... Following graduation, Sinclair went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where he began writing full-length novels with serious social themes. These novels such as King Midas, The Journal of Arthur Stirling, and Manassas, did not receive any critical recognition, but they showed that Sinclair was concerned with the condition of working people and the inequality of the rich and poor in his first works. ... Some of the worst...

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• Grade Level: High School