Deep analysis of The Jungle

The book combines muckraking journalism with an emotionally loaded fictional narrative. Muckraker journalists investigated and exposed unscrupulous behavior in business or government during the Progressive Era in the United States; Sinclair's The Jungle endures in the eyes of many critics as the finest example of this type of writing. The text's fusing of a sentimental narrative, reminiscent of 19th-century novels, with factual details of the meatpacking industry, made this book an international bestseller. Indeed, the novel is the most remembered of the 90 in Sinclair's corpus. The book's impact is undeniable as its publication resulted in creating the Pure Food and Drug Act, which became law on June 30, 1906