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Hello AP US History Students of the Summer 2014e,

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Blair Crumpler

For the AP United States History summer reading assignment, I chose to read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. This book is about an immigrant's journey from a rural life in Europe to the stockyards in Chicago, Illinois. Traveling with family and friends, Jurgis Rudkus (the immigrant in question) came with several preconceived notions about all the money and happiness he could find in America. However, he soon comes to realize the horrors that working in a slaughterhouse brings. I chose to read this book because, several years ago, I picked it up when I was at a friend's house. This friend told me that when her mother read The Jungle in college, she became a vegetarian for several years. Being a vegetarian myself, I was extremely curious what this novel had in store, but I never actually sat down and read it until now. I find it quite easy to read and extremely fascinating.
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