Question

The title of the novel is called “The Jungle.” Why do you think that Upton Sinclair chose to name the title of his book this? Is there a hidden meaning to it?

Answer 1

The Jungle, novel by Upton Sinclair, published serially in 1905 and as a single-volume book in 1906. The most famous, influential, and enduring of all muckraking novels, The Jungle was an exposé of conditions in the Chicago stockyards. Because of the public response, the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906, and conditions in American slaughterhouses were improved.