Why were you immediately struck by nauseating descriptions

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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle had a monumental effect on the meat packing industry in the early 1900's in the United States. His intention, however, was to affect change in the treatment of the workers. He said, "I aimed for the public's heart, and, by accident, hit it in the stomach." The nauseating descriptions of meat packing jump off of the page, but the deplorable treatment of the working immigrants is the intended focus of Sinclair's book. It is said, of Elzbieta's day, "It was stupefying, brutalizing work; it left her no time to think, no strength for anything. She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence."

When you read Chapter 14 of The Jungle, were you immediately struck by the nauseating descriptions of the meat packing or by the dehumanizing descriptions of the poor and abused immigrant workers? Why?

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