The Age of Innocence

your innocence. This reminds me of a quote said by Mr. Spencer early on in the novel: “Life is a game, one to be played by the rules” (8). Holden disagrees, though, he believes that playing by the rules means to allow society to control you and your life, which is why he resists growing up himself. He, too, admits that he “act[s] quite young for [his] age sometimes” (9). A teacher also plays an important role in a child’s development. Being given difficult facts of life, a child’s innocence and…

insane, or quite possibly dead. Frequently, Scout objects to going on Jem and Dill’s little journeys to the Radley’s, but still goes with them nonetheless. To Kill a Mockingbird revolves around the loss of innocence, quite particularly, Scout’s innocence.…

At the beginning, Holden is shown as innocence for most of the book which is related to his struggle with growing up. But as the story progresses, Holden must learn maturity for himself and learn to move on eventually though there are going to be circumstances that may come with a price. In this case, he can’t accept the death of Allie, which is shown as a death of innocence that had no good reason to die. In the beginning of the book when Allie, “got leukemia and died…on July 18, 1946” when…

The speaker in Audre Lorde’s poem “Hanging Fire” feels alone and confused about coming of age, because she believes that her innocence is being stripped away from her with no one by her side to ease the transition. The reality of this young girl's innocence being stripped away is explained as her “skin has betrayed her.” She is now entering her teenage years, the diction of the word “skin” shows he ashamed views on herself and how hormones are on the rise and there is no one there to help her…

Coming of Age in Great Expectations Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations tells a story about a young boy named Pip and his journey throughout his life. Pip learns a lot about social standings and whom one can and cannot trust throughout the novel. An overall theme to this novel is coming of age. To come of age means to transition from being a child to being an adult. Pip faces many hardships and roadblocks that will help him learn about society and grow as an individual. Charles Dickens’ Great…

shows many diverse themes such as empathy, loss of innocence, innocent victims, courage, and prejudice. Though the book does in fact show all of these themes, one of theme definitely shine throughout the entire book. The main theme, arguably, would be loss of innocence. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows loss of innocence through the rough experiences and mature events in Jem’s and Scout’s lives. The first proof of loss of innocence would be the unwelcoming, to children,…

Innocence and Feminity in Salman Rushdie’s, East, West and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi shows the struggles from childhood while growing up in Iran to the subsequent encounters in Europe. Salman Rushdie’s “East, West” on the other hand uses fiction and reality and blends the two in its most controversial perspective. Despite the difference in style and writing language, the two books are documented in certain themes with complementing ideologies. The main objective…

Blake’s Introduction to the Songs of Innocence and Jean-François Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. With regard to The Postmodern Condition, I was intrigued by Lyotard’s argument that examined the method by which individuals acquire knowledge through their own societal perspectives. Lyotard’s argument on the impact of societal perspectives in the acquisition of knowledge reminded me of Blake’s poem, Introduction to the Songs of Innocence. Considering Blake’s poems and…

Innocence is the quality or state of being free from sin or moral wrong.Things that are innocent have moral goodness and are pure. In the book, The Catcher in the Rye, characters, objects and images are used to symbolizes an idea. The author ,J.D Salinger, utilized these three things in the book: Holden’s brother, Allie, Holden’s dream and the Holden’s sister, Phoebe, to represent innocence in the book. First off, Allie was the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, beloved brother who died of…

Flowers,” is a short story written by Alice Walker, the story talks about how a child loses her innocence to a traumatizing event. The main character, of this story is a young girl named” Myop” is enjoying a morning in the summer by picking up ,flowers when she comes upon the decaying body of a man who has been hanged. She is exposed to racial discrimination at an early age ,which is traumatic for a kid her age. The Flowers is a story of how a child loses her purity, and how it can be lost…