Upton Sinclair & Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Sailing in the Boat to the Same Direction

Abstract

We are in front of two amazing novelists who dedicated their emotions and literary skills to noble causes. Upton Sinclair’s The
Jungle and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah drawn a landscaping space aiming at giving birth to a world free of injustice,
inferiorities, inequality, and unfairness. These two masterpieces helped to change many of the ugly faces of life to be much better to the people to live in integrity and equality.
The article highlighted the features and similarities between both Upton Sinclair and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. They share the
subject matters and themes in their writings. They have the same concerns as regards their communities’ agonies, pains,
shortcomings, deficiencies, dreams and hopes. Both were amazing as imaginative story tellers. They expressed thoroughly in their writings the ideas and thoughts aiming at achieving social reform and social justice as well.
Undoubtedly, the processing and the way handled by each other was different, but the objective is the same. The difference was
related to the environment and background of each of them. Upton Sinclar was one of the muckraking movements of the
progressive era, while Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was one of the cross-border culture of the African background came from Nigeria expressing the multi cultures amalgamated with the local, regional, and international reality.
Keywords: Sinclair, Adichie, The Jungle, Americanah