Summative Essay
Many children believe that our world is just a safe, happy and wonderful place to live in; that is not true at all. In the following essay I will be evaluating the effects of our world on the innocence of people. There are several different ways that the reality could change our innocence. However, three main ways are that there is no guardian who will give us proper guidance through life constantly, death can come for anyone, and love is not always genuine in the real world. Confronting the reality of our harsh world destroys our innocence.
First of all, there is not someone there to enforce the rules and provide you with advice on good judgement all of the time. We are taught by our parents and guardians on good behaviour …show more content…
As children, we all believe that the good people will be awarded and the bad people will be punished. However, we can lose our innocence by confronting the reality that everyone will meet their death one day and by experiencing those terrible feelings of losing a loved one. This has affected Holden in The Catcher in the Rye, “He's dead now. He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine, on July 18, 1946. You'd have liked him. He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times as intelligent. He was terrifically intelligent…He was also the nicest, in lots of ways…I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage.” (44, Salinger). Holden Caulfield begins to lose some of his innocence after being haunted by the deaths of his brother, Allie and as well as a classmate, James Castle. Both of these boys were innocent and kind people, but they both died at a young age and Holden realizes that anyone is vulnerable to death, no matter who you are. Facing the reality of the harsh world makes Holden realize that good things will never last forever, such as his happy memories with Allie. After losing Allie, Holden begins losing his own innocence by failing and leaving school and getting involved with a prostitute, drinking and thinking of committing suicide. This realization and loss of innocence is also presented in the Lord of the Flies. “He held a spear in his left hand and was tossing up a pebble and catching it again with the right. Behind him a column of smoke rose thickly, so that Ralph’s nostrils flared and his mouth dribbled. He wiped his nose and mouth with the back of his hand and for the first time since the morning felt hungry. The tribe must be sitting round the gutted pig, watching the fat ooze and burn among the ashes. They would be
Many children believe that our world is just a safe, happy and wonderful place to live in; that is not true at all. In the following essay I will be evaluating the effects of our world on the innocence of people. There are several different ways that the reality could change our innocence. However, three main ways are that there is no guardian who will give us proper guidance through life constantly, death can come for anyone, and love is not always genuine in the real world. Confronting the reality of our harsh world destroys our innocence.
First of all, there is not someone there to enforce the rules and provide you with advice on good judgement all of the time. We are taught by our parents and guardians on good behaviour …show more content…
As children, we all believe that the good people will be awarded and the bad people will be punished. However, we can lose our innocence by confronting the reality that everyone will meet their death one day and by experiencing those terrible feelings of losing a loved one. This has affected Holden in The Catcher in the Rye, “He's dead now. He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine, on July 18, 1946. You'd have liked him. He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times as intelligent. He was terrifically intelligent…He was also the nicest, in lots of ways…I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage.” (44, Salinger). Holden Caulfield begins to lose some of his innocence after being haunted by the deaths of his brother, Allie and as well as a classmate, James Castle. Both of these boys were innocent and kind people, but they both died at a young age and Holden realizes that anyone is vulnerable to death, no matter who you are. Facing the reality of the harsh world makes Holden realize that good things will never last forever, such as his happy memories with Allie. After losing Allie, Holden begins losing his own innocence by failing and leaving school and getting involved with a prostitute, drinking and thinking of committing suicide. This realization and loss of innocence is also presented in the Lord of the Flies. “He held a spear in his left hand and was tossing up a pebble and catching it again with the right. Behind him a column of smoke rose thickly, so that Ralph’s nostrils flared and his mouth dribbled. He wiped his nose and mouth with the back of his hand and for the first time since the morning felt hungry. The tribe must be sitting round the gutted pig, watching the fat ooze and burn among the ashes. They would be