politics were also very worthwhile causes to conquer along the road to social reform. If all of these three movements with their own best points for reform were to act together, America may have held a faster and more effective path of transformation and healing. The demoralizing concerns that faced America had no easy resolution. The Rudkus family suffered through horrifying turmoil to barely survive in the country, which they once held in relation to great glory and prosperity. The American dream of freedom and success were crushed under the many downfalls of capitalism during the Gilded Age. Socialism, with its theoretically perfect form of government and its promises of equality and good life for all seemed to hold a bright future for the meagerly working class. This seemingly ideal form of reform found in socialism did not hold the best answer. The path of recovery would not come as easily as Upton Sinclair had rallied for in The Jungle. ...
