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Upton Sinclair: A One-Man Reform Movement
Upton Sinclair’s career has had an enormous impact on America. ... Sinclair later wrote, “The commissioners told me that the only point on which they could get no proof was my statement that men had fallen into the lard vats and gone out to the world as pure leaf lard” (Schaumberg 19). Upton Sinclair’s truth seeking nature, ambitious character, and the impoverished conditions that he endured as a child helped shape his intense, humorless writing style and the hard-hitting subject matters he wrote about.
As a socialist, Upton Sinclair held fast to his beliefs. ... In fact, in 1904, the editor of a socialist journal, Appeal to Reason, gave Sinclair a five hundred dollar advance and asked him to expose capitalism’s degrading impact on the working class (Schaumberg 19). ... Sinclair worked for seven weeks in the meatpacking houses. ... I wrote with tears and anguish pouring into the pages all the pain that life had meant to me,” confessed Sinclair during his quest for justice (Blackwell 1). ...
Throughout his lifetime, Upton Sinclair had an ambitious personality. ... As a young socialist, Sinclair had hopes of “Remaking the world” (Blackwell 1).
Approximate Word count = 947
Approximate Pages = 3.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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