The boys act typically of most children their age by being more interested in having fun than working. ... Also, after the boys have been absent from structured discipline, they become deliberate savages and retain absolutely no innocence. ... Clearly children can quickly forget what is right and what is wrong, especially when being away from adults for an extended period of time, often resulting in a loss of innocence. ... Children are disobedient, violent and lose their innocence when there are no adults to supervise them. ...
Esperanza tries her best to avoid what is renegade against the normal expectations of women .Aging promotes the loss of childhood and innocence. ... Esperanza's overwhelmed tone reveals her fear and doggedness to adversity when Sally's game defiles the garden's innocence/purity, exposing Esperanza to the realization that she cannot remain a kid forever. ... For Esperanza, this represents the place where she is force into her loss of childhood, and comparing this to a forgetful old man when people mature, they loose their innocence and childlike attributes. ... This analysis mad...