Final answer:
The metaphor in the title of Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' emphasizes the meat-packing industry as unsupervised and dangerous. Sinclair's work led to significant food safety reforms after it exposed unhealthy practices and exploitation within the industry. The correct option is G.
Step-by-step explanation:
The metaphor in the title, which refers to the meat-packing industry, serves to emphasize how the industry is unsupervised and dangerous.
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, which is often discussed in the context of muckraking novels, depicted the deplorable sanitary conditions and lack of oversight in the meat-packing industry during the early 20th century.
The book discusses how meat was stored improperly, that facilities were contaminated with rat droppings, positions were filled with poison, dead rats ended up in meat hoppers, and that the strenuous and unsafe working conditions for employees were rampant.
Sinclair aimed to inspire a rejection of Capitalist exploitation and a move towards Socialism through his graphic depictions of the industry, but his work instead led to public outcry over food safety, resulting in the enactment of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906 to regulate the industry. The correct option is G.