Comparing and Contrasting the Humorous and the Informative
...th how they would have acted if the things in the story were to happen to them. The man who tries to corrupt Hadleyburg has the image of a devil, trying to talk people into doing evil things. We are often tempted to find the easy way out when dealing with a problem in real life because it is fast and does not involve a lot of work. In the story, the people of the town are quick to tell a lie in order to make money without much effort. The Jungle talks of the meatpacking industries back in the early 1900¡¯s. Since Sinclair investigated the actual happenings in the factories, this story is realistic and easy for us to comprehend. This book describes the brutal ways that workers were treated, their unsanitary living conditions, and the fear they lived in. We can understand the problems that the characters of the story face because there are still several problems with meatpacking industries today. Not only in factories, but there are problems and things all around us that need to be fixed. The fact that The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is a novel written to entertain us makes the writing style quite different than the one used in The Jungle. Mark Twain did not follow the traditional style of writing that most writers of his time followed, when writing The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. The characters of this story talk in a way that real people might speak. The story is humorous and is not written to point anything out, but is just to enjoy without putting much thought into the plot. Meanwhile, The Jungle is more like reading a research paper since its purpose is to inform ...