Our emotions cloud our views as we go through the transition from innocence to experience, yet it is only time that can help us look back with clarity. ... Both stories show us the role emotions play in our evolution from innocence, with the purpose of emphasizing that "time heals all wounds". Knowledge and wisdom are not necessarily associated with age, but, rather from being able to look at events from an unemotional standpoint. ... Emotions are part of our very existence; it is impossible to make the journey from innocence to experience without them. ...

• Word Count: 769
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Year in and year out, millions of school aged kids across America read through their school's required reading list with the anticipation of agonizing essays and treacherous tests. ... The issue that is most commonly dealt with adolescents that is addressed in The Catcher in the Rye is the loss of innocence. ... An example of Holden's loss of innocence creating dilemmas for him was when he was thinking about sex and how he almost lost his virginity. ... Salinger's straightforward address on the issue of losing innocence eases the fear of openly talking about the touchy issue be...

• Word Count: 901
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

After he is taken away from his home he is stripped of this innocence , his faith in his family died and he no longer believed in his religion like he did before he went to the camps. ... Although at some point in life most people lose their innocence, the way and age in which Elie did was horrible and made him into the "corpse" he has now become. ... The lost of faith in these three things, innocence, family and God, all contribute to the emotional death of Elie at the end of the book. ...

• Word Count: 1209
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

He sees a boy from Baltimore about his age staring at him. ... It was a shame that someone at his tender age of eight had to encounter such discrimination. The boy's innocence and naive ness is what makes readers feel sorry for him. ...

• Word Count: 617
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Around the age of 12 it became a constant state of competition, anger, hatred, self-doubt. ... I learned very valuable lessons at a very young age. ... I found myself falling in love with dance the way I had fallen for the innocence of baseball. ...

• Word Count: 781
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Set in the 1970s, Lolita portrays the love of a middle-aged man, Mr. ... Humbert falls in love with an innocent girl who is about his age. ... Humbert's perception of beauty did not mature with the rest of him; he viewed beauty as innocence. ...

• Word Count: 744
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Wendy Duncan, an Australian bushfire survivor, whose home was destroyed, recounted her experience in The Age's 'A place of enchantment and resilience changed forever'. ... Finding 'innocence' in his altered reality, he calls it 'never-never land', a place where he can find 'joyagain', and his imagination ignited. ...

• Word Count: 634
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Catcher in the Rye, An Analysis of Holden Caulfield From the beginning of the story, it J.D. Salinger made it clear that the problems that were troubling Holden were deeper that issues of typical teen angst. Holden was self-destructive and emotionally unstable. The death of his younger broth...

• Word Count: 930
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

They try to blame other people for their situations to maintain their innocence. ... Overall the symptoms in both psychopaths and sociopaths seem to come out around the ages thirteen through fifteen. ...

• Word Count: 1198
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Both are abandoned by their creators at a young age; Frankenstein is left without his mother after her death, the creature is rejected by Frankenstein. ... The creature's display of care and compassion for the cottagers is more humane than most humans are; he retains the innocence and naive characteristics of a child. ...

• Word Count: 1001
• Approx Pages: 4

Both are abandoned by their creators at a young age; Frankenstein is left without his mother after her death, the creature is rejected by Frankenstein's abandonment. ... The creature's display of care and compassion for the cottagers is more humane than most humans are; he retains the innocence and naive characteristics of a child. ...

• Word Count: 995
• Approx Pages: 4