The Gift of Innocence
As a child you never truly understand the gift of innocence, you are too focused on looking up at the greater things. In the book “Chickamauga” Ambrose Bierce illustrates a young boy getting driven into experiences he would never have dreamed of. Everything was harmless before his misery, just like life was simple before you grew into a young adolescents. Innocence is something you don't realize you have until you lose it.
During our class reading of “Chickamauga” a young boy has nothing on his mind but leading his triumphant army to battle until he enters a world of unknown. This youthful child “entered a forest unobserved”, and he had no way of knowing that this small distance between him and the other side of the …show more content…
At that point in our life we had no way of having a true understanding of how destructive these seemly fun games were. Now realizing that we were wrong to treat war like a game. Our innocence kept us protected from the reality of the world. Many children trust and believe anything they are told because they know no better. Commonly kids deem Santa Claus real, and are faced with disbelief when they come to terms with logic. Just like the boy, I was scared at times and comforted by firmiular things. The child is no different then many kids now a days, he is just faced with a much harsher reality. I am blessed with hearing and vocals making things easier to understand yet, finding out that the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus is fiction was an awakening to my growing innocence. It opened my eyes to a less magical world where not everything can just be given to you. This was one of my first experiences with disappointment. I saw things differently and I was now responsible for younger children and my friends beliefs, I couldn't say anything in fear I would ruin the joy for them as well. I had now experience responsibility and disappointment and reality seemed to set in little by little. My understanding and adultolescence came in as a trickle un-like the boy in the story. As he traveled to his once beloved house he was greeted with a fiery home that shone bright. That light illuminating a grueling sight of death. Because he had never been face with something like this at first “he stood stupefied by the power of revelation…” As the actuality of the world hit him so did the facts that go with it. The dangerous, unfairness, fury, and affection. He felt love for his mother but it was taken away from him, just like the joy from christmas as Santa Clause becomes a distant memory. Experience can be so gratifying yet so
As a child you never truly understand the gift of innocence, you are too focused on looking up at the greater things. In the book “Chickamauga” Ambrose Bierce illustrates a young boy getting driven into experiences he would never have dreamed of. Everything was harmless before his misery, just like life was simple before you grew into a young adolescents. Innocence is something you don't realize you have until you lose it.
During our class reading of “Chickamauga” a young boy has nothing on his mind but leading his triumphant army to battle until he enters a world of unknown. This youthful child “entered a forest unobserved”, and he had no way of knowing that this small distance between him and the other side of the …show more content…
At that point in our life we had no way of having a true understanding of how destructive these seemly fun games were. Now realizing that we were wrong to treat war like a game. Our innocence kept us protected from the reality of the world. Many children trust and believe anything they are told because they know no better. Commonly kids deem Santa Claus real, and are faced with disbelief when they come to terms with logic. Just like the boy, I was scared at times and comforted by firmiular things. The child is no different then many kids now a days, he is just faced with a much harsher reality. I am blessed with hearing and vocals making things easier to understand yet, finding out that the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus is fiction was an awakening to my growing innocence. It opened my eyes to a less magical world where not everything can just be given to you. This was one of my first experiences with disappointment. I saw things differently and I was now responsible for younger children and my friends beliefs, I couldn't say anything in fear I would ruin the joy for them as well. I had now experience responsibility and disappointment and reality seemed to set in little by little. My understanding and adultolescence came in as a trickle un-like the boy in the story. As he traveled to his once beloved house he was greeted with a fiery home that shone bright. That light illuminating a grueling sight of death. Because he had never been face with something like this at first “he stood stupefied by the power of revelation…” As the actuality of the world hit him so did the facts that go with it. The dangerous, unfairness, fury, and affection. He felt love for his mother but it was taken away from him, just like the joy from christmas as Santa Clause becomes a distant memory. Experience can be so gratifying yet so