Ordinary People mini-Essays; Calvin During the early 1900's Modernism emerged. This era brought a psychological suffering from existential angst to modern society. Most people became atheistic because of emotional pain due to their loss of belief in G-d. Although people at this point may not have come to a total understanding of the nature of G-d they were willing to engage in the struggle to discern this answer. Therefore they went in a search for …showed first 75 words of 1271 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1271 total…for the two of them to get closer now that the barrier is gone. He ultimately comes to the conclusion that "Truth is in a certain feeling permanence that presses around the moment. They are ordinary people after all. For a time they had entered the world of the newspaper statistic; a world where any measure [one] took to feel better as temporary, at best, but that is over. This is permanent. It must be" (94).