This essay will look at the "coming of age" theme as it plays out in Connie's search for her independent self. ... The depth of her innocence becomes clear when Oates' writes, "but sometimes they went across the highway, ducking fast across the busy road, to a drive-in restaurant where older kids hung out." ... This happens after she has been out with her friends the night before and met up with boys close to their own age. ... However Connie continues to live under the false impression that she is shielded from real danger behind her innocence. ... Oates' captures t...

• Word Count: 969
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Innocence The theme of a loss of childhood is one that many can relate to. ... The age difference between the cousins is great- more than fifty years- yet it is clear that the two are almost on the same level of intelligence. ... Throughout the story Buddy optimizes the loss of innocence people experience as they are forced to grow up. ... They wanted to take something away from someone else just like the war had taken their innocence away from them. Both characters, Buddy and Trevor experienced the loss of innocence. ...

• Word Count: 682
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

He goes through a journey of realization from the ignorance and innocence of being young. ... " This shows that as he increases in age he starts to lose his sociable credibility. He also experiences the physical degradation associated with age. ... He becomes mocked and a feeling of hopelessness that could come from old age starts to come to the surface. ... By this time he is experiencing the final stages of old age. ...

• Word Count: 915
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

As stated in The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, "allegory usually includes themes such as innocence, charity and prudery."" This story on the other hand, is about a loss of innocence. ... As the story progresses there is an overwhelming feeling of masculinity and coming of age. ... The themes of maturity and coming of age are also introduced in both of the stories. ...

• Word Count: 682
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The first card, the knave of hearts, represents youth and innocence (Heese, 2015). This first card refers to the boy's early life and the innocence of when one is at a very young age. ... In the boy's case it's "Referential Mania" which he suffers throughout his life starting at an early age. ...

• Word Count: 1066
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The deterioration of the Southern plantation society, the feelings of rage at a lost culture (and innocence) and the predator (master) and prey (slave) mentality which still existed in the South were common threads woven throughout the tapestry of Faulkner's writings, and these themes are especially evident in the short stories, "A Rose For Miss Emily," "Barn Burning." ... In "A Rose for Miss Emily," the aging Southern belle, Emily Grierson, was one of the few tangible remnants of the bygone Southern "glory days." ... When Miss Emily died, a...

• Word Count: 694
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 839
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Through clever characterization, underlying symbolism, and an in-depth point of view, the short story "Gimpel the Fool", written by Isaac Bashevis Singer, clearly reinforces the age-old concept that repentance, along with good deeds, will ultimately be rewarded in time. ... He may look and act like a fool because of his innocence and naivete, but it's his good heart that makes him never want to let anyone suffer, not even himself. ...

• Word Count: 729
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Raised in a Catholic private school, Chopin laid the foundation of her writing skills at an early age (Kimbel 90). ... These improvements included what she believed to be the two states of the human soul: innocence and experience (Kimbel 91). ... Chopin's work is appealing to all ages, not only women. ...

• Word Count: 958
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout most of the novel Richard isn't physically described besides the subtle mentioning of his age in certain parts of the book such as Richards birth which suggest his birth during the 9 month journey to Sydney "The new baby [Richard] had been born when the Alexander put in at Cape Town in July.... His age helps him to become more independent and be more aware of his surrounding "Right up into the hillside, into the dry ticking dream of the forest. ... Using Richard's 'innocence' the novels describes Richard as the only Thornhill accepting them as equal. ...

• Word Count: 1151
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Mama has another daughter, Dee, who was sent away to be educated at an early age. ... Then comes the pink blouse, pink may represent sweet, calm, and innocence, all of which as we get to know Maggie fit together with her personality. ...

• Word Count: 1145
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Keeping in mind the early 1960's was an age of innocence, pre-sexual revolution, pre-Vietnam Conflict and reflecting traditional and conservative values, Sammy's internal thoughts, ideas and perception were not the perceived norm. ...

• Word Count: 1193
• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: High School

The short story and the video both tell the story of a middle-aged man nicknamed "Bub," who has lived the most recent years of his life ignoring his wife and filling that unused time with his self-indulged liquor love and addiction. ... This lacks in the video, and the viewer cannot quite grasp the innocence and importance of the characters and their relationship. ...

• Word Count: 1465
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The notion of transforming a novel into a film has been rampant today. Today, many films have been created from the ideas that adjacent the novel's. The problem is that the novel and the film will never portray messages at the same level. It is worth noting that visual images in the film will obvio...

• Word Count: 1130
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He was extremely short – maybe four foot seven – which was odd for a man his age. ... – was one of innocence, the embodiment of an eternal youth. But this was her curse and she was fated to be forever young when her heart failed at the age of nine. ...

• Word Count: 1480
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

He constantly denies being insane, and focuses more on the aspect of sanity than on his innocence. ... The writer's excellence consists in his ability to arouse any reader's interest, regardless of age, ethnicity o education, in a matter of minutes. ...

• Word Count: 1909
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School