summboo 's review for:

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

5.0

reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

---

Intense book that causes you to reflect on capitalist systems

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Grief, Abandonment

Minor: Grief

The book is intense I’m it’s descriptions of poverty and the food industry in the early 1900s. Parts of the book are unsettling and difficult to read because they are trauma spawning events for the main character