Experience results in change of people, whether it be the sight, sound, or the action of something. With change comes the loss of innocence, simply because everyone is ignorant to everything until it happens. O’Brien’s own character’s loss of innocence is proven when O’Brien wrote: "He lay face-up in the center of the trail, a slim, dead, almost dainty young man. He had bony legs, a narrow waist, long shapely fingers. His chest was sunken and poorly muscled -- a scholar, maybe. His wrists were the wrists of a child” (O’Brien 118 ). This description of the man that O’Brien killed was very specific portraying imagery. The imagery used let the reader know that O’Brien was impacted by this moment in time, changed forever. The details used
