The Jungle By Upton Sinclair Discussion Questions Directions: Brainstorm your answers to the following questions in
the space provided. Be prepared to share your original ideas in a class discussion
1. In your opinion, what is the most disturbing line/section? Why?
2. Meatpacking houses operated like this for many years. Why do you think it took so long to
change the industry?
3. In the context of this excerpt, how does greed drive action? Cite evidence from this text, your
own experience, and other literature, art, or history in your answer.

It is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. . among the wonderful deeds of hannibal this one is enumerated: that having led an enormous army, composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good fortune. this arose from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty, which, with his boundless valour, made him revered and terrible in the sight of his soldiers, but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect. –the prince, niccolò machiavelli what kind of reasoning does machiavelli use in this excerpt? he uses inductive reasoning because he offers statistics to prove his claim. he uses inductive reasoning because he observes a pattern and proves a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he relies on scientific experiments to prove a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he introduces a conclusion and proves it with evidence.