Innocence

Within an excerpt of James Kincaid’s Erotic Innocence, specifically a portion addressing the underlying sexualization of children, Kincaid claims that the sexual attraction of a child stems from less obvious examples of sexual objectification in the public. Although these examples of objectification appear to be taboo in today’s perception of discussable topics, these observations warrant deeper study based on the reservation when addressing the sexual eroticism of children. These feelings of…

A mockingbird is a unique type of bird that should never be harmed because all it does is make beautiful music. This special bird is the very symbol of innocence. Throughout Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, there are many important individuals that represent a mockingbird. From the beginning to the end of the narrative we have characters that are the embodiment of the mockingbird because all they do is help others and they themselves get harmed in some way. However, there are some…

Innocence does not mean immortality. As J.K. Rowling said, “Always the innocent are the first victims.... So it has been for ages past, so it is now.” In the Jazz Age novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is a self-made, extravagantly rich young man who lives on the West Egg of Long Island. His love interest is Daisy Buchanan a married old money girl with whom he had a romantic past. As their relationship progresses, it becomes clear to everyone but Gatsby that it is not the…

In this quote, Miller shows the irony in people’s actions by discussing guilt and innocence through different people’s paradigms. During court, lawyers are needed to help prove a person innocent, whether they are actually guilty or not. In this quote, Danforth suggests if a person is pure hearted, they would not need a lawyer to defend their case. He suggests a person with a pure heart would not be accused in the first place, therefore would not need a lawyer, whereas a person who is guilty…

connect with the people around him because they also see him as “phony”, but as the novel progresses Salinger exposes Holden’s innocence to the audience showing the reader his intentions of wanting to understand the truth of…

The innocence of a Children’s Actions Physical Description of Child To begin, I observe a five-year-old preschooler. She is in Kindergarten, but this is not her first year of school she has been going to school since the age of three. She began at a daycare than to preschool and now she is in Kindergarten. Her name is Jennifer Dolores Munoz, her Birthday is on August 17 and she was born in the year of 2011. She is five years of age and sixty-three months years old. She weighs 46 pounds and is 56…

element discussed along with the reoccurring reminder of the conditions the chimney sweepers were forced to endure. Despite all of the harsh experiences, the children’s’ innocence is evident as they remain hopeful and optimistic in the unfair society. The poem explores the contrast of the unruly child labor paired with childhood innocence that makes up the chimney sweeper’s dark reality. William Blake starts out the poem by revealing the…

The true values of man are revealed when one faces the prospect of losing something precious in order to keep what truly matters, as people’s sacrifices reveal their true beliefs. In The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton demonstrates that people make such sacrifices for what they really value, when Newland Archer ends his affair with the Countess Olenska, whom he loves, to live socially accepted with his wife, May Welland. Archer gives up the relationship that he longs for, displaying that his…

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…

The Gain of Self-discovery: From Innocence to Experience William Blake’s The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience aim to show the two “contrary states of the human soul” by presenting paired poems respectively focusing on the bright and dark sides of the world and human spirit. Among these poems, the two versions of “The Chimney Sweeper” explore the issue of child labor in the 18th century of England from children’s perspective. By comparing the two poems, readers will find that…