Innocence

whether this is the face of a murderer, or the type of kind young gentleman that you would have tea with or go to the opera with. Although I truly believe that just the charming attitude and looks of Mr. Gray should and are enough to prove his innocence, as someone who has come to know Mr. Gray closely I feel obligated to go above and beyond in defending him. The most important and obvious defense on all three murders is the lack of evidence brought forth by the prosecution. If Basil Hallward…

Innocence to Knowledge Living in the south during the Great Depression are bleak and grim times. Severe discrimination and injustice exists in every town. These aspects only fasten the loss of innocence in children. Scout has to face many harsh aspects of the 1930’s in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. In this loss of innocence novel, she is countlessly exposed to the truths of life which hasten her passage to adulthood. {Although it is obvious that Lee stresses the importance of experience,…

knowledge she has obtained which made her change her stance on the death penalty is the increase in people being found innocent due to DNA evidence. The authority behind this is the Innocence Project, a project started in 1992 that works to exonerate wrongly convicted individuals using DNA analysis. She found out about the Innocence Project through various news shows she watched that showed cases of it. She also read a lot of articles online or in the newspaper that pertained to this. The cases…

Can innocence last forever? Throughout the novel Catcher in the Rye Holden is a character who is afraid of coming out of his childhood. Interestingly he has a younger sister Phoebe who is still in her childhood. Because she is young she is one of the few people Holden has almost nothing bad to say abou. Phoebe Caulfield is important to the story because she represents the few things Holden likes in an individual, she is an innocent child, a mature person to chew fat with and a character not too…

The loss of innocence in one’s life can transform them entirely. Everyone must experience the act of losing their innocence; otherwise, they will never grow out of their childish state. In order for someone to learn how to fully take care of themselves, they must first learn to become adults, therefore losing all of the previous innocence they once held. However, it can sometimes be a bad thing. In the beginning of The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantes is an innocent and naïve boy who…

In the novel, the mockingbird is a symbol of innocence and killing a mockingbird would to be to unnecessarily persecute someone or something. During Chapter 10, Atticus explained to Jem and Scout why not to shoot at mockingbirds. Mockingbirds represent the idea of innocence as they don't do any harm to their surroundings, so to kill one would not only serve no purpose, but it would be morally wrong. There is no justification for killing a mockingbird, and yet hunters and children still shoot at…

Jodi Picoult once said “One person’s trauma is another’s loss of innocence”. This idea of maturation has been used in stories and novels for the longest of times. Throughout the story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout, the main protagonist, grows up in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930’s. Scout sees the ugliness of the world throughout her childhood as she is exposed to racism, injustice, and cruelty of society. The trial and death of Tom Robinson is the pivotal moment where Scout…

you. The only thing keeping you young. The only thing keeping you shielded from the world. It can be brought on by any one thing. That thing is known as “loss of innocence”, but is it really a loss? All someone loses is their naivety and artlessness. The 1980s movie, “Breakfast Club,” perfectly exemplifies each person’s loss of innocence that day. The movie is about five members of different cliques in high school and one Saturday morning detention. They all have different views of one another,…

this is an important because Daisy embraces her youth and beauty, by taking the name Daisy. She is comparing herself to the beauty and innocence of a flower. Many of Daisy’s friends appreciate her innocence, and are drawn in by her charm. In time though, they are often repulsed by the recklessness of her behavior; and no longer willing to accept her foolish innocence, as justification for her behavior. In the high society she is no longer seen as a beautiful flower, but rather a weed that must…

Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home is a work that founded on conflicts and paradoxes between outward appearance and meaning. Even the title Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic appears incomprehensible. The phrase “Fun Home” all the same for first Family funeral home, that evidently is not something, a number of us would consider being fun. We tend to contemplate the phase “Fun Home” in relevancy the family’s actual house; it is clear that their family life is not notably fun with its upsides of…