Jesus will descend from heaven with great power and glory; many people grow up with this thought. Different religions believe in different ways of how the world will come to an end, however, maybe he has nothing to do with religion. “The End of the World as We Know It” written by the author Dale Bailey argues that the world is ending for someone every minute of every day. Writing about a survivor of an apocalypse struggling to deal with the emotional dimension of his loss, Bailey states that the apocalypse is coming and there’s nothing you can do to avoid it. The end of the world is not just the destruction of the world. “The End of the World as We Know It” illustrates that losing someone we love deeply is an experience of the end of the world, each individual has a unique experience of the end of the world, and God will replace everything that belonged to that certain individual.
In “The End of the World as We Know It” a short story by Dale Bailey, the protagonist, Wyndham must deal with being the last man on earth. Wyndham is a UPS driver, a loving husband and dad. One morning Wyndham woke up and discovered that…show more content… Wyndham losing his loving wife was his first experience of the end of the world as we know it. A line in the story clarifies, “It was like touching a woman made of wax, lifeless and cool, and it was at that moment-that moment precisely-that Wyndham realized the world had come to an end” (Bailey 286). This line indicates that the loss of his wife had a huge effect on him. The world has ended in his eyes the moment he saw his wife dead. Bailey’s point of view of the end of the world is that losing someone we love can alter our world forever. Losing someone hurts so much that we feel our world ended but we still are
