Rockwell Introduction Paragraph

While in modern times we often revert to the saying "live in the moment", this ideology was considered a completely new idea in the mid-20th century. Americans were so accustomed to looking back on their pasts that the idea of focusing on present issues seemed unusual. Rockwell's "The Runaway" overlooks the fundamental rift that was rising in America throughout the 1950s- an emerging counter-culture that was not concerned with how things were in America but rather how they are.