help me!

[ozzyboy]

Hello I am reading this book The Jungle Upton Sinclair and have not yet finished reading it I still have a long way to go and its due next week. I am reading this because a have to do a book review and one thing I must include in my assignment is an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the book, the outstanding ideas, theories, arguments, or qualities of the book, and I must support my analysis with examples from the book.:rolleyes5:

[dfloyd]

After reading The Jungle, Teddy Roosevelt threw his morning sausages out a White House window.:smilielol5::smilielol5:
Also, you might learn how to spell Sinclair.

[ozzyboy]

yea I know but I was in a hurry....BUT U STILL DIDNT HELP ME OUT ON ANYTHING:nonod: so why reply with something USELESS:confused:

[Illini88228]

yea I know but I was in a hurry....BUT U STILL DIDNT HELP ME OUT ON ANYTHING:nonod: so why reply with something USELESS:confused:

First of all, since you're asking for help you might want to try being a little more polite to the people who respond. Second, we're not really here to do your homework for you.

But, as for the book. My general impression of it, and its been a while since I read The Jungle, was that the book as a novel more or less fell apart in the final chapters as it became more and more a background for Sinclair's socialism. He famously commented that he had aimed for America's heart and had instead hit its stomach. The book is less thematically about the horrors of the meat-packing industry, as it's almost always taught in schools, than about the plight of immigrant labor in turn of the century America.

[Katy North]

I found the book so gripping that I finished it in one day.

Surely you can finish it in one week. :hand:

[pooteeweet]

I found the book so gripping that I finished it in one day.

Surely you can finish it in one week. :hand:


Two days here, but yeah, I know what you mean!

[Mariner]

Hello I am reading this book The Jungle Upton Sinclair and have not yet finished reading it I still have a long way to go and its due next week. I am reading this because a have to do a book review and one thing I must include in my assignment is an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the book, the outstanding ideas, theories, arguments, or qualities of the book, and I must support my analysis with examples from the book.:rolleyes5:

The back of the book provides a good summary.

Don't assume what the strengths and weaknesses are supposed to be. What do you, as a reader, find as strengths and weaknesses? Is the book approachable to you? Is it's message straight-forward and clear, or does it get it's message across with metaphors and long story-examples? The book was written in the early 20th Century, so is it still relevant today? Is the language reasonable to you, the modern reader?

Ask yourself those kinds of questions instead of trying to figure it all out. Judge it by your standards, not how you think a librarian would judge it.

It's a great book, and you still have time to read it. Sometimes, book reports suck, but it's a classic for some reason!