The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (Book Summary) - Minute Book Report
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- This is a quick book summary of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. This is a tragic story about a Lithuanian family led by a man named Jurgis and their trials in Packingtown's meat packing industry.
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"It is difficult to get a person to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it." Upton Sinclair
Wow 👏👏
The last 50 pages of the book is Sinclair thinking, "Now how do I REALLY show everyone I'm a socialist?"
Good book, even if the writing gets stilted.
Yes socialism seems to be the panacea for all ills. Having read the book several times the best lesson learned was that "....it is each against all and the Devil take the hindmost!"
I thought the same thing. Socialism advertisement the whole ending was.
Holy crap, so glad I found this sooner. Just the story itself sounds like a back and forth. Even though many students and people may not appreciate this as much, I'd just like to say thank you for taking the time and effort to share a story in a way no teacher could have ever done.
Please read the book. It is a hard one to go through, but honest. I am very fortunate to have been born in America and given the opportunities I have, but honestly we have never really been beautiful. American history kinda sucks.
mnicolemortensen7 neither has any other country had a beautiful history. It’s best we acknowledge the stains of the past and work to make the future better.
You should read it, it is such a good book. Heartbreaking, but good.
I would love to see an adaptation of this movie in modern day America showing how little has changed in the plight of the immigrant worker or working poor in general.
You're thinking of illegal aliens not immigrants.
eric hofmeister I would pay to see that
Potting Soil they aren’t called illegal aliens bro, they’re called
say it with me now because it may be difficult for you
“Illegal Immigrants”
Illegal aliens is dehumanizing, offensive, inflammatory, and even a racial slur
suscbribe for frei vbuck and robuks they’re immigrants. Don’t call them aliens because aliens automatically has a feeling of not human and comes from the unknown and I’m not an immigrant. We need to understand that even more than coming here illegally they are still people not animals or aliens.
Online Profile i am not the one making the rules, aliens is just what they have always been called, without any malicious intent. If you want them to not it, go appeal every dictionary definition, and go appeal several acts and laws that use the term ‘aliens’ because thats what the government has been calling them. They don’t mean it in a bad way, they just are following the exact definition.
Man my high school English sure loves having us read sum deep messed up books. But good book overall
Bruh I’m reading this in bootleg ap 7th grade
It’s really hard
on god
091021 The point of The Jungle was to change the negative treatment of children & stop child Labor. Without revealing what the industrial industry create were would we be today? Children should fully enjoyed as it only a tiny window of time before it's what? OVER. HeavenLee Justice
So
Did anyone else remember hearing about this book, but having the only notable feature drawn from it as "it was a whistleblowing book that demonstrated the dirty working conditions of meat factories which ultimately helped establish the FDA? (pure food and drug act 1906)"
Yes but I'm confused as to how this video even remotely relates to that
Have an essay due in two days and i didn't read a single page because of how boring the first pages were. THANK YOU
How was it? We’re your grades any good?
this is me right now man... essay due for me college class on Monday and I cannot bare the first couple pages without falling asleep
@Patricia M it is boring yet interesting. boring b/c it is not the things i enjoy reading, and interesting b/c well it really is.
How do you know the first few pages are boring if you didn't read a single one?
Poor Jurgis :( man went through a lot
I appreciate this kinda books , it could make people understand more than reading one whole story.
This video made the story seem so much better than when reading it
this is an amazing channel. keep this up man. i appreciate hearing summaries of books and will definetly save me some time for required reading in some of my classes.
THANKS SO MUCH
school starts in 3 days so this was VERY HELPFUL
I've never really understood what the term "shitshow" meant before seeing this. Thank you!
Where have you been we miss you :( 2021
I wish there was an Upton Sinclair for this generation.
thank god i watched this ahead of time, time to nock a good 8% off my english grade
*knock. 🎉❤
C+ is the grade I give this summary; sorry but as a professor I always think of things in terms of letter grades. This summary omits certain critical details and actually makes two MAJOR factual errors. A better summary enables the recipient to make analytical inferences and to retain key supportive details. I HATE to admit it, but Sparks and Cliffs are excellent A+. Wiki earns an A- grade. As this is a C+ graded summary, a C graded summary would be: "The Jungle is about immigrant struggles."
Ok boomer
There are professors on UA-cam?
That’s cool and all, but I didn’t ask
@@joaquinmurga8253 ah yes the one who listened and will clearly get an A since this summary tells nothing.
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yeah... what do you think they do all day?
Small correction, Jurgis would be pronounced Yurgis, since we’re talking about a lithuanian man. Because in lithuanian, the letter J makes a y (consonant style) sound. :) And thank you for the book summary.
We miss you please come back😢
So helpful I have to go back to school in 2 days and this was a life saver thank uuuu
I love your gentle voice
I actually need to finish the book now. I got like 15% of the way through but stopped, idky it seemed super interesting.
Thank you so much. I really didn't want to read this and you have helped me so much. Thank you once again, much love
2020 and I miss you
Well I have a full test on this book and I haven’t read a chapter in it so I hope I can get a good grade
Gavin Beaver my teacher instantly knew 😂😂😂
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L0ST S0UL I graduated 😂😂 my teacher even knew it haha
You did great as always! Can you do a video on "The Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli? It's complicated, haha.
You did great as always. Can you do a video on the invisible man? I personally can't choose between Ellison or H.G. Wells... up to you
Thanks for the suggestion. I actually read both stories, but that was a while ago. Maybe I'll reread them soon. :)
Hey man! I love your videos.And they are really helpful!Can the next one be
"Lassie come Home"?
What happened to this channel
The deceptions of the meat processing plants also lead to the 1987 Guns N' Roses song "Welcome to the Jungle"
I'm having such a hard time believing this to be true...
If you do not want to, you do not have to, but can you please do a report on The Feather Pillow by Horacio Quiroga, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden? I can’t find anyone else who did a really short summary on it.
I don't know if you still read comments, but just wanted to ask what happened to this channel?
I miss your videos 😔
damn do you still make videos what happened
I have a test on this today :) haven’t read any of it yet
Wonderful
Where did this man go he helped with my book report
He must've read this boring atrocity(The Jungle) and decided he didn't want to do book reviews anymore.
Finished book last night. It was bleak!
Also Jugis missed christmas with family because he was in jail.
my grade thanks you man :D
i would honestly support a patreon for this channel if you ever decide to start it back up again
It is sad when Ona dies in labor, and it's also sad when Jurgis is jailed for fighting with his boss and also has to learn the ways of the street to survive. It does show both the unsanitary nature of meatpacking (for exampled the workers could have communicable diseases but would still relieve themselves on the kill floor). One worker even fell into a vat, and the rotting meat was often masked using borax. It seems like the factory owners also had the Republican and Democratic parties in their back pockets. It's sad to think that the Republican Party, which at that time was the party advocating for the Pure Food and Drug Act, which required labeling and transparency for all Food, Beverages and Prescription Drugs (or patent medicine if you will) was also a party that could be so easily bought. There was serious malfeasance afoot in Packingtown.
We need more of your vlogs fam!
Jurgis is pronounced Yurgis.
This shit is intense
i just found this now but what happened to this channel?
Thank you for this great recap. If I had to guess, a BIG reason this book is banned, not because of the gruesome depictions of meat packing and slaughter, not because of the harassment, but because it promotes socialism. Oh the horror. #readbannedbooks
You the best.keep up
Some Hella lazy kids here. It's an amazing book BTW. You actually would profit from reading it.
I graduated high school two years ago. I will say this, there’s a difference between reading an assigned book and a book on your own time. I used to be such a book worm, to the point where if I really focused I could finish two books in a single day. However when it came to reading books for school I just couldn’t get through them. They weren’t my preferred genre, and on top of that i couldn’t actually relax and enjoy the book because of reports, homework, essays, and tests
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And I though The Grapes of Wrath was bleak.
Dude it’s been years come back what happened🥲
where is this guy now?
RIP Stanislovas Lukoszaite
The rats ate him 🐀
How have you been brother 🤟🏽
I like the fact that you do these reports but the music in the background is distracting and makes it difficult to understand a lot of your narrative. Please slow down a little and cut the music and you’ll really be on to something.
My school sadly didn't read this book. They deemed it too disturbing.
Do the magic finger by Roald dahl
Hope you can make a new video about the book Once by Morris Gleitzman
Can you please review the novel Shine by Candy Gourlay 😊
I need a summary of your summary.
Where were you when I needed you?! D:
Are you going to talk about ASOUE season 3 I really didn't like it.
Come back legend
Can you make Coraline please
Unfortunately since Sinclair didn't know much about Lithuanians, several key elements of history were missing such as the tension with polish people, nationalism and socialist rivalries, and different ethnic groups such as the German supporting population in Klaipeda
Also ironic that socialism becomes prevelent when it would also lead to millions of Lithuanians dieing during WW2 and the cold war
Also your pronouncation of Lithuanian names could use some improvement
Millions? Hundreds of thousands maybe, but that has nothing to do with socialism, however the book was written in 1921 so even if it did the writer wouldn't have known.
Wrong, the author went straight to the Lithuanian community, he came upon the wedding of a young Lithuanian couple. The author's story is part of the novel and good editions will have the history of The Jungle and the back story too. I can't point you in the right direction , my well worn copy of Jungle is in my storage for now.
What happened to his family
Please do no promises in the wind thanks
Why do I have to read this 😿 make a movie so I can forget it more quickly
In what ways does Sinclair's book depict capitalism as a destructive force in America's immigrant community in early 20th century Chicago? Look at several of the books main characters and explain how they were exploited by their employers. Do you believe the The Jungle has anything relevant to say to Americans today?
Can you guys help answer these question ?
The Eastern European/Slavic city lifestyle of early 20th century America.
Man why did you stop posting?
i just read it ,so disgusting ! And the workers, so miserable life!
been 6 years bro
People got confused this with jungle book and I'm just stating its funny
Wait, what?
The story is, Jurgis has a lot of misery, stumbles on a socialist meeting, likes it, the end.
Where’s the part about rats in the meat
dam this is deep
PLEASE START POSTING
can you do Bambi, a life in the woods
Hey are you still there?
Sounds like it was still better than staying in Lithuania or they would have gone back....
They couldnt go back. It cost them their lives to move to America.
I wonder where they would have come across the funds to move all the way back to Lithuania. Immigrants are conned into moving here to help keep the corruption intact. That’s all. There’s no value to living in the states.
I mean they did not have the money but they were also one by one being picked off by death so theres that too.
Honestly if you are starving a living in this conditions how can you manage to have two babies. Like wake up, Damn. And this stills happens now days smh
No birth control
yoorgis
Please come back to youtube
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Hey man come back to youtube. Post something new. Let’s change this country. #readabook #fuckcapitalism
This was the most boring book ever!
epic socialist propaganda
@Colin Rude it IS.
You clearly have no idea about what socialism is.
@@johntr5964 you have no idea in general
@@LumpyBumpyAcidFish ,just give your definition of Socialism. Let me hear your opinion.
No answer,no knowledge.
I have to read this boring book for class.
its actually not boring. I though the same before. I read 10 chapters today wtf.
HamuGames If I was forced to either spend my weekend reading this book or watching paint dry...
I'd choose the paint.
Chapter 15 had me on edge the whole time
YOOR-GIS
Horrible fucking book.
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