B. Inform the reader why great gruel is on sale
To make or become smaller in size
Yes, there are some heroic characters that sacrifices in life for the sake of others.
The answer is the difficulty of determining what is real. Typical modernists had a loss of meaning in the modern world, so there themes included the question of "What is real?" There was a search for meaning in a world without God, and a search for self with a critique of traditional values.
