THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
THE MUCKRAKERS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
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Haphazard conditions of the Chicago meat packing factories that allowed water to drip on meat
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Focused on the injustices at the fault of the railroad company on farmers. It covered an event between ranchers and the railroad that turned bloody
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The problems facing the urban poor, like poor living conditions
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Political corruption in the cities were politicians focused more on their own profits than governing.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Octopus examines the struggle of California wheat farmers in the San Joaquin valley against the powerful Pacific and Southwestern Railroad monopoly. Norris employed the technique of literary naturalism in the novel to dramatize the issues of environmental determinism and social justice.
Detailed explanation-2: -Norris was inspired to write the novel by the Mussel Slough Tragedy involving the Southern Pacific Railroad. In the novel he depicts the tensions between the railroad, the ranchers and the ranchers’ League.
Detailed explanation-3: -There is a shoot-out between the farmers and the railroad employees, during which Harran Derrick, Hooven, Osterman, Annixter and others are killed.
Detailed explanation-4: -The central characters-Presley, a poet from outside the region; Annixter, a wheat farmer and ranch owner; and Vanamee, a shepherd with mystical persuasions-all emerge from the side of the wheat farmers.