What is your opnion on why The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a banned book?

Question

The Jungle is a novel about Chicago stock yards. This novel is on a list of banned books. I have to do a report on it so please help if you have read this book i need your opinion on it for part of the report. please help!!

Answer 1

The banned book list includes any country than bans a book so it could be that another country banned it, mostly likely a communist country.

Answer 2

You should read it. The book is about how, in 1900, the meat that was put on the American Table was slaughtered and prepared in the filth of the Chicago Stockyards. The book is the main reason that we have the FDA today. It also talked about poverty in America and many of this countries social ills.

Sinclair believed that the main point of The Jungle was lost on the public, overshadowed by his descriptions of the unhealthy conditions in packing plants. The public health concerns dealt with in The Jungle were not as significant to Sinclair as the human tragedy lived by his main character and other workers in the plants. His main goal for the book was to demonstrate the inhumane conditions of the wage earner under capitalism, not to inspire public health reforms in how the packing was done. Indeed, Sinclair lamented the effect of his book and the public uproar that resulted: "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." Still, the fame and fortune he gained from publishing The Jungle enabled him to write books on almost every issue of social injustice in the Twentieth Century.

Sinclair is well-known for his principle: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." This quotation by Sinclair has appeared in many political books, essays, articles, and other forms of media.

Sinclars political beliefs whot have lead to the book being banded but it is known that Teddy Roosevelt read the Jungle in one day and was so shocked by the book that he began to get Congress to pass Public Health laws and Food Safety laws.

Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair As a start to your research and do read "The Jungle"

Answer 3

Sorry I have not read it. I know it is available but it is one of the "banned classics." It lead to the creation of the FDA and to meat inspections. I have heard so much about the book (in various classes) but have never read it.

I know he had what were considered "Socialist" views and that may have been why the book was banned; I believe it was first banned in Boston.

If you can't find anyone who wrote it, go to "pinkmonkey.com" and get Barron's Booknotes for that title and that may help.

Apparently these people who are telling you to read the book, have not read your question.

Good luck to you.

Answer 4

Odd that you say it is banned. If so, how come you are being asked to write a book report about it?

You can buy the book at Amazon.com for as little as $5.95 and have it in a couple of days. Rather than asking someone to help you write a book report on a book you haven't read, which is essentially cheating, read the book.

Answer 5

"The Jungle" isn't banned in america of a, regardless of the indisputable fact that it is been banned in different worldwide places. It became even burned in Nazi Germany, through fact Sinclair became a socialist. The e book itself is an extremely surprising account of lifestyles for the poverty-bothered on the turn of the twentieth century, and for that reason it remains very debatable.

Answer 6

Who said it was banned? Its a classic, and most people have to read it eventually for school.

Answer 7

the book portrays the truth of the chicago stock yards...that's why its banned, b/c they are embarrassed

Answer 8

Too gross?
Goes against capitalism, the economic form of the U.S.?