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. ...
Salinger portrays the difficulties that go along with the "coming of age" through Holden Caulfield's point of view. ... The way he looked over Allie and how adults look over a child's innocence. ... The reader can now realize that Holden has took upon the responsibility to save the innocence of youth and rebels against his own parents whom took away his childhood innocence. ... In order to protect this innocence, Holden starts with Phoebe by believing in everything she pursues. ...
The monotony of his life nurtures his childhood happiness and innocence, and from this state the boy is introduced to Joyce's version of reality that has been lurking before his eyes his entire life. ... In 'Araby', he uses a young child still caught in the state of childhood innocence to show a modernist's version of the "coming of age." This "coming of age" is the point in everyone's life, child or adult, when we realize that we face substantial pain and emptiness ahead. ...
The short stories " The Rocking-Horse Winner", "The Lottery", and "War", all focus on sadness that results when children lose their innocence pre-maturely. ... These children are exposed to death and murder at such a young age; it will corrupt their minds and influence the way they think throughout the rest of their lives. ... Combined with that insight, students will also investigate Findley's use of first-person point of view, vocabulary, expressions, and syntax to relate the events of the story through the "voice" of a young boy at two different ages of his life. ...
When children are forced to work at a young age, they can also develop serious health problems. ... This causes the children to delay their mental and physical development both internally and externally, and have a lower IQ (The Path of Innocence, n.d.). ... Retrieved April 21, 2003 http://www.safechild.org/childabuse5.htm The Path of Innocence (n.d.). ...