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About This Novel

In 1904, Upton Sinclair spent seven weeks undercover in a Chicago meatpacking plant; in 1906, "The Slaughterhouse," which was serialized in newspapers, was published. As a journalist and writer who leans toward socialism, the starting point for writing this book is the "human-eating capitalist machine" and is aimed at the readers' minds and hearts. But perhaps accidentally or accidentally, the book hit the target a foot too low, "hitting the reader hard in the stomach" with its description of a meat processing plant. The protagonist of the book is Jurgis, a tall, strong and naive Lithuanian immigrant. He and his family came to the New World with great hopes and wanted to start over in this land of equality. But his life and hopes are slowly being torn to pieces. Unemployment, wife raped, jailed, child drowned, wife lost, all relatives and friends have fallen to the bottom of society step by step. Jurgis has struggled, fallen, and been disappointed, but in the end he still saw the glimmer of hope.

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