Loss Of Innocence In The Novitiate

As people grow older they start to lose their innocence. This usually starts to happen when you have witnessed your first death, or when you go your first funeral. In the short story “The Novitiate”, the main character loses her innocence, after realizing her brother had to kill an animal to get some money. Her heart had shattered into a thousand pieces. This is because in her eyes a gopher was like a puppy, and to see her brother brutally whip the gopher around must have been a very traumatizing experience. On top of all this misery, she had also been asked to by her brother to catch one by herself. Of course when she heard this she didn’t want to, but she knew this would make her brother extremely proud of her. After catching the gopher, she was extremely upset, because she had seen …show more content…
One main thing is that we start to lose our innocence. I remember how in kindergarten, no matter what I had done no one would ever get mad at me. It had felt like even if I had killed someone, I wouldn't have been in fault. When I was younger, I thought everything would be a fantasy. That there would be no problems, but all that changed when my grandpa had died. This news was very shocking to me because nothing like this has ever happened to me before. It was a new feeling that my body has never encountered before. I wasn’t even able to express my emotions they way I should have in this type of event. The timing of this was even worse because I was supposed to go to Disneyworld in a couple of days. But when I heard this news I couldn’t imagine being excited and cheerful, and pretend like nothing had ever happened. To me, this experience had changed who I am on the inside. I felt extremely different, It was like I had an immunity to everything miserable and depressing. This entire event had taught me to be more passionate about my life. And that eventually sorrows will appear, but I know I have to overcome them all to be in this