Outside Reading - Week 2

My outside reading book is The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, and so far it's going pretty well. The plot of the book sounded interesting, but it started out fairly slow, mostly because there was a huge amount of characters that had to be introduced.

At this point, it's pretty obvious that motif is the main literary element. This book was written to reveal to the public the truths about the meat industry, so the author created many different symbols such as the innocence of the pigs that are slaughtered, and the false pretences that the immigrants come under.

The main tone so far has been informative, satirical, and patronizing. The tone doesn't change dramatically throughout the book, as the main family is always facing new obstacles and hardships because of the crushing poverty they are trapped under.