The Age of Innocence

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee focuses mainly on innocence throughout the novel, the mockingbird came to represent the idea of innocence. Killing a mockingbird means a loss of innocence I the eyes of the reader. Throughout the book many of the characters can be identified as mockingbirds. Jem, Scout, Dill, and Boo all lost their innocence as they grew up in a town such as Maycomb. Tom Robinson is another example of a mockingbird in this book because of the injustices he faces being a…

The Flowers Alice Walker’s short story, “The Flowers,” is essentially a coming-of-age story that expresses the theme of loss of innocence. The girl in the story’s name is Myop. Myop is short for Myopia, which is an eye condition where one cannot see things far away. Myop cannot see beyond the beauty and happiness of her childhood. In the story, Myop was skipping along a trail, thumping her stick to a beat, doing what most ten year olds do. In the text the speaker states, “Today she made her…

by child like innocence? If it is worth being blind than who will take the burden of blinding you? In Catcher In the Rye written by J.D Salinger we get to see Holden a depressed teen struggle to identify himself in the world that he hates but still wants to help by protecting the innocent ones. Through the course of the book we get to see his identity change as he encounters those who a seem to not have lost their innocence or those who understand the meaning of losing their innocence. Holden…

adults to preserve the innocence of children as long as possible. This is true in both “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelo. In each of these novels, adults futilely attempt to protect the innocense of the children by shielding them from the adversities of society and this is evident in Scouts experience with Boo, Jem’s maturity, and when Maya was raped by Mr.Freeman. The first instance of the destruction of innocence is seen through…

one’s life when innocence vanishes due to an horrifying experience or an improvement of knowledge about the world. Originally, all Individuals are innocent, but it is turmoil and the hardships an individual encounters that is the source of the valuable virtue to perish. In some instances, innocence may be lost in one’s life before it is meant to be lost. Night, by Elie Wiesel is a devastatingly true story about his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. Eliezer’s innocence declines as…

William Wordsworth uses words to express his frustration with the worlds materialistic needs. The poet wants people to see ,through his words, that the Golden Age is a place without materials a place with bliss and serenity. The title of the poem is “ The World Is Too Much With Us” the poet wants the reader to understand that all of humanity, including himself, is responsible for what is happening and that to get back to a state of peace it will also take everyone. The same effect is seen…

her mother suffered from mental illness, rarely leaving the house. Atticus, the father of Jem and Scout, is one of the only white people in all of Maycomb who openly opposed racism. Jean Louise Finch, or “Scout” for short, is a little white girl who ages from six to nine years old in the story. By the standards of her time and place, she is very intelligent, and also a tomboy. Her brother, Jem, is…

the book where Scout as the narrator has a very educated writing style, the uses of “waked” instead of “woke” shows that she still has innocence. In the book, when she was a child she went through many adult-like events and learned a lot at a young age. The use of “woke” shows how even though she went through some serious events as a child, she still has innocence left in her. For my project, I created a board game that has a childlike feel to it. With the shades of blue, the cartoons, and the…

William Blake/"Songs of Innocence"& “Songs of Experience” It is said that as a young child, Blake, had visions and saw God and a tree full of angels. His parents had noticed that he was different from his peers. This allowed him to create ideas for his poems. He was heavily influenced by the Bible as he was growing up so many of his writings were influenced by it. William Blake, a poet, writer, and an illustrator of his own books, known for his poems, "Songs of Innocence," and “Songs of…

Innocence is the lack of experience with the world and the evils in life. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee suggest that innocence is an important factor in a child’s life that can easily be lost. Lee wrote a novel to talk about racial tensions as she tells the reader a story of the innocent Tom Robinson who is wrongly convicted of rape; her story is told through the eyes of the young and impressionable Scout Finch. The trial in the story shows how the most innocent people can be convicted of…