The Age of Innocence

experience it as the novel continue. The Guirthe brothers have lost their mother and wife to depression. Moreover, the Guthrie brothers have lost their innocence. For example, when they are on their paper route and see a woman dead in her apartment. Most children don't see these things at a young age and both Ike and Bobby have lost the innocence of death. Furthermore, they've seen the ugliness of death and can never go back to what they had once saw before. Victoria Roubideaux also has lost…

Childhood and innocence are things that are seen as sacred to those who have outgrown the first and lost the latter. However, these two concepts are less linked and more complicated than one would prefer to believe. Metaphor is often used to translate difficult to describe experiences and concepts into forms that those unfamiliar with these experiences will find easier to understand and more relatable, to make the indefinite definite and the intangible tangible. The purpose of metaphor and…

Rowling once wrote, “Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.” in other words, Rowling said that the innocent are always the first to learn about death, suffering, and the horrendous things in life. In S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders, Johnny, one of the two protagonists in the story, stabs a Soc, also known as a popular kid, while defending Ponyboy, the other protagonist. Their innocence prevails despite the horrendous circumstances Ponyboy and Johnny are…

The Fracture of Jem’s Innocence Coming of age is often like watching a set of rose colored lenses shatter to reveal a shocking reality. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the court trial of Tom Robinson, an alleged rapist, shakes the entire town. When it ends in a guilty verdict based on his race rather than the evidence, Jem, the protagonist’s brother, is shocked to the core, his innocence destroyed, and his beliefs fractured by the result (Lee, 212). This happens despite reassurance from the…

Similar to the overall process of growing up, a loss of innocence occurs across physical, mental, and emotional levels. Twain emphasizes Huck’s loss of innocence especially in the second half of the story. However, because Huck grows up differently than most children, his innocence loss does not seem as dramatic as other boys his age in the nineteenth century. As children lose their innocence while growing up, their sense of reality and the world around them increases. Lauriat…

Housemaid’s daughter is set in Cradock House where a young black girl is raised within a white family, both facing many adversities. They explore familial relationships where they create a foundation for their values at a young age which results into the loss of their innocence as the values taught were compromised when facing the injustices of their society. The comparative texts reflect that an individual’s views of their reputation within society is influenced by the values that are enforced…

reveals an event between him and a prostitute. The relation between these two illuminates Holden’s distinctive need for the preservation of child innocence.. Holden meets a man in the Hotel elevator- Maurice- who advertized prostitute. Holden decides to get one for a night. When he opens the door for the prostitute, he notices that she is young, almost the same age as he is. Holden wanted talk to her, but unlike him, Sunny, just wanted to get right into business. Sunny had a nonchalant…

Topic: Compare how the theme of innocence is represented in The Book Thief and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Through having innocence as a key theme, the author of the novel The Boy in Striped Pyjamas (written by John Boyne) and director of the film The Book Thief (directed by Brian Percival) have succeeded in capturing the reader’s attention and emotions, therefore intriguing the reader and taking an emotional effect unto their life. In order to do this, innocence is not directly mentioned,…

others may begin as a representation of innocence, which is the exact opposite of their resulting fate. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein experiences the unfortunate…

is a thought-provoking novel that shows how the allegory, innocence versus experience, is distinguished between a human and a monster. The novel focuses on the distortion of innocence through experience in a mental progression of the protagonist, Victor Frankenstein. The novel places an emphasis on the mental progression of Victor as he explores the world outside of the home. Some experts argue that while Victor was at college, his innocence was corrupted by his interest in black magic. However,…