The Age of Innocence

with war in their everyday lives. Both of the characters Leper and Finny are forced to face the reality of world war II in different ways. Leper and Finny’s experiences with war impact each significantly, although both result in a major loss of innocence. Leper’s naivety about what it would be like to enlist was the beginning of his downfall. After seeing the ski film, Leper states “‘I always thought the war would come for me when it wanted me,’” (125). As somebody who loves nature, he…

Allworthy. Notably, Fielding establishes Mrs. Wilkins’ prudish nature in which he mentions, “the fifty-second year if her age, vowed she had never behold a man without his coat…” (40-41). This small addition that Fielding includes in the passage introduces to the audience that Mrs. Wilkins has never been in a maternal position due to the fact that she has never seen a man…

representation of Paisley Dickey in a scene taken from an episode of “Toddlers & Tiaras.” I will inspect how she demonstrates the sexualization and adultification of young female bodies in child beauty pageants as influenced by the discourse of beauty and innocence, as well as how gender, race, and class plays into this complex issue. Furthermore, I will also express how childhood pageantry reinforces normative gender scripts and its role in a larger historically-rooted discussion regarding the…

now is regarded as a seminal figure of the romantic age. His work and art has influenced countless writers and artists throughout the years. Blake is even labeled as a “magical” writer and an “original” thinker. Although during his own time period, this artistic genius went wildly unnoticed. Born in 1757 in London, England, William Blake began writing at a young age. He claimed to have his first “vision” of a tree full of angels, at only the age of 10 years old. He studied engraving and…

government misconduct and an inadequate defense. In 1982, a white pregnant woman was raped and robbed by a black man in her home in Detroit, Michigan while playing with her seven month old son. She described her assailant as a thin black man between the ages of 15 and 18. She stated to detective Janice Nobliski, that the man was clean shaven with braids in his hair. When police arrived at her house, they collected the robe she was wearing and the sheet from her bed. She was also taken to the…

Feel the rise and descend of your green colored horse. All around you horses gallop on this fast and blurry course. Mirrors, clowns, flashing colored lights, whirling and twirling, what chaotic sights. Round and round, when does it end? Life is a journey full of trips. Some trips are cyclical like an amusement park ride who’s speed and momentum we cannot control. They are seemingly spinning out of control filled with dizzying distractions that prevent us from enjoying the ride and knowing how to…

America begins school at the age of three. A child may begin to mature at a around 12 years old, unlike Antonio who starts school at the age of seven. Though he started school later than the average child, he matured at a rate that subsequently affected and changed his life. Coming of age by the process of maturing is an important and well addressed topic in the novel Bless Me, Ultima. Rudolfo Anaya addresses this throughout the book to focus on Antonio Marez’s coming of age as he experiences…

Symbolism in The Catcher in the Rye Like all great pieces of literature, J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye owes much of its fame to its ability to connect with the reader’s emotions. “Holden’s discontents and diatribes are infectious because we all have our irascibility and fastidiousness, and Salinger has managed to play on us by summoning up the perfect details” (Castronovo). The troubled teen story of Holden Caulfield depicts a young man unable to face his own reality. A struggle, many…

one of the causes of why Golding focuses on loss of innocence. At the ages of 6-12, the boys are used used to having their parents do everything for them and are used to attention and feeling like they are the most important people in the world. If all of these boys come together a natural struggle for power arises. Each boy focuses on their own ego, what they can do to become important. When Jack and Ralph collide they procure a loss of innocence because they now know what it is like to not be…

“Nothing to see” suggests that Maycomb is a small, quiet town with little to do. Lee uses the sleepiness in the town to establish interest in Maycomb as events unfold during the novel. People create problems that aren’t there to entertain themselves in the slow paced county. This is like racism, a large part of the book. The person you see may be completely harmless. You have nothing to be afraid of, however, you bring yourself to become fearful of them for no reason, other than the one you’ve…