The Jungle Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle was a great influence over the countries decision to take notice into the food safety administration. Sinclair used a brilliant picture of the 1900’s. A somewhat frightful perception is used for the meat packing industry, political corruption, and fraud. The Jungle was one of the most discussed novels of the early twentieth century. The Jungle opens with the wedding of a “mighty shouldered,” “giant handed,” individual by …showed first 75 words of 1195 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1195 total…this country had in the early twentieth century. He portrayed a poor Lithuanian family to show Americans these alarming flusters. He used the power of this book to help regulate the meat packing industry. Although The Jungle was a fictitious novel it caught Theodore Roosevelt’s attention and he took notice. If it were not for The Jungle there is no telling when this great country would have cleaned up their food industries if ever.