The Jungle:
What qualities did Sinclair believe a person must have to succeed in "Packingtown"?
- Sinclair believes that a person must be a liar, and have deceitful and meddlesome qualities in order to succeed in "Packingtown", for the hardworking, "get-the-job-done" kinds of people would only be thrown out and replaced.
According to the passage, what is the plant owner's main goal?
- The plant owner's main goal is to become successful, however way he can, in the business industry.
What does Sinclair mean when he says, "...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar....?"
- I believe it means that the workers in the meat production factories were rated so poorly by their power-hungry business bosses, that they stood to be of less value than a real dollar bill.
The U.S. government regulates the environment in many ways. Called the U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), it effectively manages clean drinking water in cities and on airplanes. EPA controls how much fluids go through the sewer systems, as there are strict guidelines that the sewer systems have to meet in order to ensure the environment does not get polluted. They also work with companies to make sure that toxin levels in the air don't get out of control.
