Title: Mosquitoland Author: David Arnold Number of Pages: 342 Summary: Mosquitoland is a coming of age story by David Arnold. The main idea of the book is Mim’s (the main character) journey from Mississippi to Cleveland to get to her mother, in it she makes friends and has all kinds of experiences. The friends she makes are Walt; a teenager with down syndrome living under a bridge and Beck, a “stunningly handsome” man in his twenties who she meets after trying to buy a used Pickup-Truck. Her experience range from a cubs game with her newfound friends to a horrible stomach ache from a chinese food buffet. What I Learned: From Mosquitoland I learned how important friends can be, from Mim meeting Walt and Beck. They shared important moments
New agencies were established as a role of the government's responsibility to its citizens and one of those agencies was the Food and Drug Association. The Food and Drug Association origins could be traced back to the creation of the Agricultural Division in the Patent Office in 1848. The FDA federal consumer protection agency began when the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act was passed. This law was aimed to end serious abuses in the consumer product marketplace. This agency was strongly advocated by Harvey Washington Wiley and the act was passed because of his efforts and Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle".
This reflect remembers Montag’s description of Clarisse as a mirror in The Hearth and the Salamander. Granger clearly sees that they need to evaluate who they really are before they start doing new things. Mirrors in the book Fahrenheit 451 are symbols or self-understanding of seeing oneself clearly. Mirrors can also be symbols of seeing who you really are from the outside to the inside. “Come on now, we’re going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them” (Bradbury
In The Jungle by Uptown Sinclair, the immigrants were exploited to a point of slavery. They were not treated with care, and were considered a number and not a person. The company did not care whether or not how the person did their job, or how much danger the person in. As long as the job was done on time, and no money was wasted. At some points the men would not be able to work. Some men had little to no feeling in their hands due to cuts, and bruises. Uptown Sinclair showed this by saying, “The hands of these men would be criss-crossed with cuts, until you could no longer pretend to count them or to trace them.”-chapter 8 Sinclair. No person should have to go through all the pain and suffering these men had. It is hard for a person to make
Based on chapter 13 of How To Read Literature Like A Professor I believe The Jungle is a political work centered on the contrasts between capitalism and socialism. Upton Sinclaire uses Jurgis to represent immigrants and the working class, making the character more relatable helps to get the authors point across to the audience. Wether it be politically or otherwise, the story is meant to change us and in turn change society. In the case of The Jungle , Sinclaire uses symbolism and propaganda like antics to express his ideas both through Jurgis and the story itself. This novel being programmatic (pushing a single cause, concern or party position) supports socialist ideas and causes. For example, in The Jungle, Jurgis is constantly oppressed
During the turn of the 19th century, the second industrial revolution was taking place in America, which shifted society from agricultural to industrial. Innovations and new technology were the driving vehicle for burgeoning businesses in the city. With this shift, populations swelled in large cities such as New York, Chicago, and Pittsburg by job seeking immigrants from countries including Ireland, Germany, and Lithuania who were attracted to the United States wanting to be a part of a so called “American dream” and economic opportunity. These immigrants longed for a chance to start over again and wanted nothing more than an opportunity to make a better life for themselves, and the generations
The article written by Sarah Maslin Nir and William K. Rashbaum in the New York Times, talks about a bomber who tried to detonate a bomb in one of Manhattan’s busiest subways. The bomb did go off but not fully and Akayed Ullah, 27, who was identified by a policeman, was the only was who was badly injured.
Dry September is a story where citizens of a Jefferson, Mississippi have heard a rumor that Will Mayes, a black man has raped a white woman named Minnie Cooper. The story explores the reactions of the town’s citizens as this rumor is spread. Individuals begin to make individual conclusions and assumptions drawing hasty ideas based on insufficient or miniscule evidence, even going as far as to make up some of the evidence to draw a conclusion. There is a relationship between racism and violence in the world of the text.
The Jungle is centered on Chicago in the late 19th century to early 20th century. Jurgis, a robust and strong-willed young man, immigrates to the United States in an attempt to obtain a better standard of living. On the way there, shameless criminals hoping to gain easy money, cheat them out of their already limited budget. After arriving to Chicago, they are abhorred by the filthy conditions of the city and the abundance of factories polluting the air with grimy smog. Their illusions of the class mobility in America are quickly shattered when the family suffers from numerous scams, filthy working conditions, political corruption, hazardous food, and crippling low pay. Nonetheless, the family struggles onward to make their living in the cutthroat
The book The Jungle was introduced as a novel by Upton Sinclair was financed and published with his own money. Upton Sinclair was a famous novelist and social crusader from California. He was born on 20 September 1878 in Baltimore Md. He was the only child of Priscilla Harden and Upton Beall Sinclair. Upton Sinclair’s childhood was lived in poverty, one where his father was an alcoholic, his job as an alcohol salesman most likely contributed to his disease. And although his own family was extremely poor, he spent periods of time living with his wealthy grandparents. By living from one end of the extreme to the other he argued that this is what turned him into a socialist.1
Upton Sinclair was an American writer whose works reverts not only the inside but also the socialists view on things. Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was born into a family which held to its Southern aristocracy in everything that was done. When Sinclair was ten years old, the family packed up and moved to New York City as there were more opportunities to succeed.
In the article” When mosquitoes were killers in America” by Lauren Tarshis, there is evidence that discussed how mosquitoes were far more than a nuisance. The article talked about the symptoms of having malaria. Tarshis said,”Those who become sick get high fevers, bone - rattling chills, and painful muscle aches.” It must have been very painful for people in the olden days who had malaria. The current generation is very lucky because there are medicines that reduce pain. Malaria is a deadly disease caused by mosquitoes sucking blood and transferring the blood to another human's body. Tarshis talked about how many people die in a year due to mosquitoes. The article says” In this way, bite by itchy bite, 212 million people are infected with malaria
Upton Sinclair in his novel The Jungle made it clear that the family consisting of Jurgis, Ona, Teta Elzbieta, Marija, and others, were chasing after an almost nonexistent “American dream” in hope for happiness and money in their lives. Instead of a land of acceptance and opportunity, they find a place of prejudice and exploitation; instead of a country where hard work and morality lead to success, they find a place where only moral corruption, crime, and graft enable one to succeed materially (The Jungle: Themes, Motifs & Symbols). The hypocrisy of the American dream hit the family will full force and drove them into the ground.
In the novel, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, a young confused girl has trouble finding herself as she grows up in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza and her family move to a small, crumbling red house in a poor urban neighborhood. Determined, she decides that someday she will leave and move somewhere else and totally forget everything about Mango Street. Throughout the novel, Esperanza significantly matures sexually and emotionally. The many stories of her neighbors gives a full image of what Mango Street is like and showing the many possible paths Esperanza may follow in the near future. However towards the end, she begins to write as a way of expressing herself and as a way to escape the
Gastroenteritis, Typhoid Fever, and E. coli… all conditions that can result from eating mishandled food. Before modern research, nobody knew that these aliments could result from consuming food that was handled by someone in a factory which had poor sanitation. The environments of these factories are specifically depicted in Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle. We now live under the impression that the FDA and other governmental companies are strictly regulating what happens to the food we consume - that we are fully protected from any harmful diseases we could catch from something that gives us life; however, this is just another false promise the leaders of this country tell us in order to secure our dependence upon them.
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction novel about a futuristic community that has lost the ability to socially interact with one another. Guy Montag is the average citizen. His profession is a fireman, except in this society firemen don’t prevent fires, they start them. His job, like many other firemen, is to illuminate books by burning them because books are illegal. Over the course of Fahrenheit 451, Montag realizes society and its faults. Bradbury uses Montag to depict technology and censorship as examples of warning signs, and how that society could one day become ours.