support@essaywritingexpert.org5 PAGE PAPER In these questions you are asked to state and explain the author’s views on the subject. You are also asked to spend at least one of the pages explaining and defending your own view of the matter. Accuracy, clarity, and evidence of careful thinking, as well as the cogency of your position are the crucial features in these essays. If you intend to submit this paper for WPE consideration, ensure that you spend enough space showing your understanding of the central concepts without resorting to mere paraphrase or summary. One draft must be submitted at least four days before submission. Be sure to use direct quotes to reinforce your interpretations. In “My Confession”, Leo Tolstoy admits going through a mid-life crisis at age 50. Explain the background and source of this crisis, showing how he uses a story to highlight his sense of loss, and the emptiness of traditional solutions. How does Tolstoy resolve his existential crisis of loss of meaning and overcome his earlier problems? What sort of questions might an atheist raise to challenge Tolstoy’s claim that “without faith, one cannot live.” (p14, “The Meaning of Life: A Reader, ed. Klemke and Cahn). Do you agree with Tolstoy’s theistic claim that only faith in God can enable humans to escape from the specter of meaninglessness? Why or why not?