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    World Through Literature Loss of Innocence- Night/ Boy in the Striped Pajamas There comes a point in everyone’s life when the realize their loss of innocence and ignorance and their gain of knowledge and acceptance of the real world. Some experience this loss and life promise at a very young age. For those who are Holocaust survivors‚ this loss of innocence and gain of knowledge happened as soon as the Nazi regime took over. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel‚ Elie was a young boy just

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    sometimes think? I think the world may be going through a phase... it’ll all pass‚ maybe not for hundreds of years but someday. I still believe in spite of everything that people are really good at heart."(Diary of Anne Frank) While reading the book "night"‚ my view was that people had the right to lose faith after everything they had to go through. However‚ when I finished the book‚ I gave it a deep thought and realized that people are good at heart. Maybe it doesn’t take only one lifetime for them

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    murdered in the Holocaust‚ it would seem miraculous for one to live and tell their tale. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel tells the story of a young Jewish boy that was brought to Auschwitz in 1944. After witnessing and experiencing all the horrors of the camp‚ he unbelievably made it out alive and shared his experiences with the world through his award-winning novel. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel‚ Elie‚ the main character‚ is affected by the events in the book as he loses his faith in religion

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    Faith Has something bad happened to you where you feel like you can’t go on and you have lost all faith? In Night by Elie Wiesel‚ he shows us that faith is a big factor in surviving. During his experience in the concentration camps‚ he loses faith and almost loses his will to go on more than a handful of times. Faith helps you in many ways‚ and helps with everything. Elie has proven that sometimes it’s really hard to not lose faith. Sometimes faith is the only thing we have left to hold on to. Families

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    for his faith had become a cornerstone for mine.” Those are the words of François Mauvic on Elie Wiesel’s firsthand account of the horrific events that were bestowed upon him due to his fatal flaw‚ being a Jew in Nazi Germany. Night is an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel that brings its readers through the emotional journey of losing faith‚ in God and humanity. Elie develops his theme of faith by showing the change of its meaning to him‚ the conflict it was causing in himself and the conflict

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    Loss of Innocence

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    Many people experience the loss of innocence every day because it’s just a natural thing. One way that people loss their innocence is through the violence of war. Most people in a war will come unto the fact that it’s a kill or be killed kind of thing. Everyone would naturally choose to kill another man and that’s how many people in a war end up losing their innocence. Another way that people lose their innocence is when they witness the death of someone else. In the book “Fallen Angels‚” Lieutenant

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    Innocence is usually associated with youth and ignorance. The loss of one’s innocence is associated with the evils of the world. However‚ the term "innocence" can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Similarly‚ the loss of one’s innocence can be interpreted in more than one way‚ and‚ depending on the interpretation‚ it may happen numerous times. The loss of innocence is culture specific and involves something that society holds sacrosanct. It is also bounded by different religious beliefs.

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    It has been said that innocence can be defined as the state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin‚ through lack of knowledge of evil. I will examine pieces of literature that convey the loss of innocence to either a particular person‚ or a group of people. The first piece of writing I have chosen is‚ The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. In the middle of a war‚ a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crashed onto an island. The pilot had been killed‚ so that left the boys to fend

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    Andrew Yamin Scarlet Letter Analysis Loss of Innocence in the Puritan Society In the Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne hones in on the contrast between good versus bad and the loss of innocence that defies that line. Hester Prynne is a symbol of shame and sin to the puritan society‚ however she once was an innocent and honorable woman. On page 76‚ Hawthorne repeats the phrase “At her‚ child of honorable parents...At her‚ mother of a babe...At her.” This repetition emphasizes the way Hester

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    school‚ Pencey academy. From here he meets all sorts of people ranging from teachers‚ all the way down to prostitutes. Salinger’s loss of innocence is illustrated through

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