Upton Sinclair’s Gory Jungle Book Grabbed My Attention In High School

I wrote this in high school in the 1990s

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An assignment I had during my freshman year of high school greatly affected my literacy. Toward the end of the year, my teacher handed out a list of classics and modern classics and told the class to pick one book to do an oral report on. As soon as I saw The Jungle on the list I…