The two families" sort of match up to the same ages except the Garcia's are about a generation older so their last in the line is a generation older than the last in the del Valle line. ... At her age she has "no wrinkles and she's never had a pimple" (262). ... The main things that are repeated are Esteban's sexual needs, the unchanging number of people in the story, the genealogical names, and Clara's innocence from birth to death. ...

• Word Count: 613
• 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

"Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness," (pg.45) what would drive a girl of such a young age to be so consumed with a seemingly adult problem? ... Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye gives the reader many shocking insights into the Black American family during the Depression, but perhaps the main idea to take away from the reading of this novel is how easy it is to lose one's innocence. ...

• Word Count: 876
• Approx Pages: 4

Staci Sabarsky gave Stellas' character the innocence and hopefulness the character needed. ... The downcast lighting played well with Blanches desire to hide her real age and play to her sense of never being truly seen in the spotlight. ...

• Word Count: 670
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

I have been through so many dark, traumatizing, and depressing situations in my life at my age of fourteen. ... Instead I fell in love with a liar, a monster, a manipulator named Francis John Kufrovich a forty-one year old man who had many sexual encounters with young girls and one boy that were my age, but had never been charged due to silence from his victims. ... But I now realize that Mark is just a character that was created to fulfill Francis's needs, and to tarnish my innocence. ...

• Word Count: 1090
• Approx Pages: 4

"All The Pretty Horses details a journey that is both literal and, at least to some extent, a bildungsroman, a movement from innocence to experience, from purity to knowledge, from the known world into the unknown world--and the unknown world in this novel is Mexico-(Blair 1). ... John Grady at the age of 16 is already quite mature for his age and because of his maturity he does not try and change the world he is living in, he simply moves to another place of it where he is able to "live his life in a way that gives it meaning by his own terms, terms that amount to a heroic and nave ideal, but...

• Word Count: 1189
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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
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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'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