In the perspective article, “The Coronavirus And The Ruptured Narrative Of Campus Life” (2020), Dan Chiassan, a contributor to The New Yorker and an English professor at Wellesley College, asserts that the coronavirus is impacting campus life, student’s lives, and suggests that this pandemic is all teaching us how to stay away from contact. Chiassan backs up this claim by doing the following: first, he explains how a syllabus “gives the students ideas of where to look for what happens next”(Chiassan 1); next, he claims “The coronavirus has taken the narrative shape away from both students and professors”(Chiassan 1); last, he explains “The virus has taught us all not to touch one another”(Chiassan 1). Chiassan’s purpose is to make the readers aware that the students on the campus are really being affected as well as everyone in the world in order to inform the reader that the coronavirus pandemic is all teaching us to stay away from each other and keep a distance. He also inserts “And so the idea of calling it off, cutting it short, could mean that a student might face violence at home sooner than she’d anticipated”(Chiassan 1). What this quote is trying to say is that students who live on the campus now have to go back home and they don’t know what they will come home to and because of the author’s concerned tone, it seems as if he wrote this to let his audience know what is going on with the campus and how it all changed so fast. The audience most likely consists of people that are concerned about the coronavirus and students who attend college.