Ordinary People The novel Ordinary People explores how the heart and mind recover from afflictive losses. The author Judith Guest depicts how a tragedy can change lives drastically and even tear families apart. Conrad Jarretts recovery shows how people, slowly but surely, can go on with emotional stress differently, and those differing strategies are portrayed in this novel. The death of Jordan Jarrett affected the Jarrett family greatly. Calvin, his father, was one who …showed first 75 words of 432 total…

…showed last 75 words of 432 total…many people. With all that, he started to live a normal life again. The tragedy that happened to the Jarretts in Ordinary People is a good example of how people recover from painful losses. The novel shows the effects on a family and a persons own reaction to the incident and how they differ from others. It also shows that life should and can go on even when you think it cant.