Loss Of Innocence Theme

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" You're a mean old ...man! Cried Gwyn. Mrs Griffiths gave an anguished sigh, and her husband stood up. But Gwyn fled before another word could be spoken. He climbed up to his bedroom and nothing followed, not even a shout."
The theme of this quote is "Lost of innocence". Gwyn, unlike other boys of his age lost his innocence at a very early age when he was about 5 years old. He became a victim of his father harassment (he is accusing him of being the coupable of his sister mystery disappearance) and developed the ability to ignore him. This ability is quite big to handle for a little boy of his age . For example, If we consider the average reaction of boys of his age who are being expose to this harassment, they would probably cry or feel

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