Imagery in The Jungle :: Upton Sinclair

The snaps that I encountered when reading about the meat packaging industry in the early 1900s were very graphic. Some images were more graphic than some others. The prototypical scene that comes to mind when I think about the passage The hobo camp was the huge iron wheel with pigs on it. This scene sticks out in my mind because I can almost see the pigs squealing as they are ripped away by their feet up higher and higher into the air. I can also see the massive river of hogs awaiting their turn to be enchained up by the burly Negro. Another scene that is easy to happen upon is the scene where the blasters struck the cows on the head with a sledgehammer hammer. In this scene all I can imagine is emaciated out earthly concern who has swung a sledge all day. This man would mother to be worn out in a couple of days due to the physical demand. The next scene im going to describe is the scene in the steaming room. This is probably one of the most disgusting scenes in the en tire text. Knowing all the germs that could possibly be there and the incident that there was new germs brought in every hour. The odor those men had to expect worked in would have been gut wrenching. The bubbly creek was the part of the lettuce river into which all the blood, lard, hair, and any other possible thing that came off of a pig or cow was swept into. The idea that a man came along and collected the film that formed on the top and change it as pure lard is appalling. And to think that unsuspecting families purchased the waste and therefore cooked with it. One of the wrinkles the men in the factory could apply for was the knocker. This was the man who would knock out the cows before they were slid out of the killing bed. Another job there was in the factory was the butcher this guy was the one who was to unravel out the cow. The way in which he did this was to make one agile stroke to the cow. After which the cow was hung to bleed out. The headsman was one of the o ther jobs men had in the factory. It was his job to make two or trey swift strikes to the neck and severe the head in the fastest elan possible.