Annotation:
The Rise of American Industrial Revolution concludes the 19th century. Just like many other families across the world, the Rudkus family emigrated to America in search of a new life. They decide to settle in Packingtown, Chicago and realize the life they dreamed about was never going to happen.
Justification for Nomination:
This is a story of an honest, hardworking Lithuanian man named Jurgis Rudkus who comes to America with his family in search of a better life. Instead, he is faced with challenges and battles to keep his family from starvation. Jurgis works in Packingtown, near Chicago, which is a meat-packing industry that is filthy, dangerous, and hard to work in. However, when it is hard to find a job anywhere, Jurgis is forced to work in this threatening and unhealthy place. Jurgis encounters the death of his wife and unborn child in labor and his life goes downhill from there. He is confronted with the misfortunes of life and eventually abandons the rest of his family. Will Jurgis come to his senses and return to his family? Read on because this is a story with truth and honesty in itself of early America!
Banned in various countries across the world and burned in Germany by the Nazis, this is a book that cannot be missed. The truth and reality that Upton Sinclair so expertly sneaked into this story and structured a plot with characters so well created to play out those roles is just unbelievable. One of the best books to be written in early twentieth century with truth and honesty of the earliest immigration to happen in America. Moreover, Sinclair's work in this book had to be one of the earliest books written to be so influential. It is a book with values, beliefs, social-politics, family, relationships, survival, money and everything else that comes into play when thinking about "the American dream". This is a fictional book inspired by accurate situations that took place and Sinclair made his mark by creating such an intelligent work of art through the power of written language.
Genre: Political Fiction; Social Criticism; Multicultural; Religious
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