I aimed at the public's heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
Radical Innocent, 83.
This quote, spoken by Upton Sinclair, demonstrates the author's disappointment that the political point of his novel was overshadowed by the public's outcry over food production. Sinclair had meant for The Jungle critique capitalist economies. His goal had been to move the public to identify with the harsh realities of the working class and to garner sympathy for socialist viewpoints.
Instead, the country became outraged over the methods of food production. Sinclair's novel graphically illustrates the unsanitary and unethical standards by which meat was produced in the United States. The public was outraged that the government did not do more to protect the public and to maintain sanitation standards. This outcry eventually led to the Pure Food and Drug Act. The public was less concerned, however, with the treatment of meatpacking workers in
Answer:
situational irony
Explanation:
Situational irony occurs when the reader is waiting for an event to happen, but what happens is the opposite and totally unexpected event, which surprises the reader, for having been unpredictable.
The above text is an example of situational irony because as we read the text we are sure that a cheff who makes meat dishes admired in the world is a meat lover, but we were surprised to find that the cheff is vegan.
The phrase in the excerpt from a 1964 interview with Malcolm X indicates that he is explicitly stating an opinion is this "<span>{I don't think that it} serves any purpose for the {leaders of our people} to waste their time fighting each other needlessly."</span>
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D. clear
an adjective describes a noun and clear is describing the waters
