Loss of
innocence
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Christian Chaplin
Background Information about
loss of innocence
• Realization that the world is NOT as it
should be.
• Growing up (learning about Santa)
• Finding out that the Tooth Fairy is your
mom or dad.
Focal Questions
• What is the character like at the end of the
story?
• What causes the character to lose his/her
innocence?
• In what way is the character innocent at the
beginning of the story?
Loss of innocence in Romeo and
Juliet
• Romeo said, “This day’s black fate on more
days doth depend. This but the woe others
must end” (3.1.124).
• When the nurse tells Juliet that Romeo has
killed Tybalt and has been banished, Juliet
asks “O God, did Romeo’s hand shed
Tybalt’s blood?” The nurse said, “It did, it
did” (3.2.78-79).
Romeo and Juliet
• Nurse said to Juliet, “I think you are happy
in this second match, for it excels your first,
o, if it did not, Your first is dead, or ‘twere
as good he were as living here and you no
use of him.”(3.5.235-238)
Loss of innocence in
After the First Death
• When the hijackers first get on the bus Kate
thinks, “She was furious with herself. Her pants
were wet- her panties, really, but she hated the
word panties. She griped the steering wheel and
could feel a migraine beginning” (31).
• “A child called out for Kate after he woke up from
his sleep” (155). Mother figure
After the First Death
• “Miro felt the presence of the gun under his
jacket like a tumor growing there” (31).
• After Artkin drugged the children, “A child
called out for Kate after he woke up from
his sleep” (155).
Loss of Innocence
To Kill A Mockingbird
• Jem said to Reverend Sykes, “We’ve
won it…. Don’t see how any jury could
convict on what we heard--” (221).
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Loss of Innocence
To kill a Mockingbird
• After the verdict, “It was Jem’s turn to cry.
His face was streaked with angry tears as
we made our way through the cheerful
crowd. It ain’t right he muttered” (224).
Poem: “Nothing Gold Can Stay” By
Robert Frost
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Nature’s first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf’s a flower
But only so an hour
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay
Analysis “Nothing Gold Can
Stay”By Robert Frost
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You’re born innocent and pure
Hardest thing is to stay innocent
You are still innocent and pure as an early child
But you cannot stay innocent long, because you
grow up
Because your childhood’s over
Your innocence is gone as you grow up
You’re all grown up and not innocent
Innocence cannot stay because you grow up
Archetype in
Schindlers
list
• Mrs. Rezzre was a Jewish teacher for a German
child Lavondu before the Jews were separated.
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• Mrs. Rezzer says, “Your not but a boy any more.”
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Children of Rwanda’s
Genocide
Lizanne McBride said, “These children
were faced with having to deal with
feeding themselves,
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• A 1998 report released by the Aid Group
World Vision said, “The family structure
that used to support the child no longer
exists.
Children of Rwanda’s Genocide
• Chauvin of UNICEF said, “The violence
that children were exposed to or engaged in
is a unique and traumatic problem for
Rwanda. A recent UNICEF study found
that 96% of children interviewed in Rwanda
had witnessed the massacres and 80% of the
children had lost at least one family
member.
Loss of Innocence
Loss of innocence can be both a normal
experience or one that is traumatic. For
most of us, it’s something that usually
occurs as we get older and learn to think
for ourselves. Loss of innocence is
sometimes the result of a terrible
experience, as in the Rwanda Genocide.
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