THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
THE MUCKRAKERS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The unfair practices of the Standard Oil Company
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How the railroad company was charging farmers that needed to transport goods across the country large amounts of money.
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How more and more immigrants were coming into this country and were being treated badly.
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That meat industries were not taking care of meat in sanitary ways.
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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: -Career. Frank Norris’s work often includes depictions of suffering caused by corrupt and greedy turn-of-the-century corporate monopolies. In The Octopus: A California Story, the Pacific and Southwest Railroad is implicated in the suffering and deaths of a number of ranchers in Southern California.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -In August 1902, Everybody’s Magazine published an article by Norris, A Deal in Wheat, exposing corrupt business dealings in agriculture.