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    Drummer Boy of Shiloh” symbolizes loss of innocence, death, and gain from the civil war. On April 6, 1862 The Battle of Shiloh in the Civil War started. In the two days of fighting over 23,000 soldiers died. At the time it was the bloodiest battle in American history. In this battle the Drummer Boy represents youth and the heart beat. The general represents the father and experience. The drum represents a useless toy. The peach tree represents life and death. Shiloh represents the loss and gain. Owl

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    mind, survival. In Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried, it is seen how the war negatively impacted the soldiers of the Alpha Company and changed their personalities severely. One of the main changes that is seen in the men is the loss of innocence that accompanies them as they move through the war. In times of war, boundaries are crossed and morals are thrown out the windows. The dangerous situations that the men are thrust into cause

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    Last Day of a Condemned Man (Quotes) Capital punishment or the death penalty. Should we have it or should we not. This report will make you think about what could happen if we did not have it. Using capital punishment is very costly. It causes taxpayers to pay close to ninety thousand dollars a year. The other main problem is the innocent people who are wrongly accused of a crime and sentenced to death row and later executed but shortly after they are executed the are found innocent

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    everything behind, but they would carry with them their memories, worries, and their innocence. Unfortunately, nearly every soldier would lose this innocence during their time at war. When these young men were forced to make terrible decisions at war, they lost their precious innocence. In Tim O'brien's novel, “The Things They Carried” he tells of these terrible decisions and circumstances that stole the soldier's innocence. Throughout the entire novel, O’brien uses various stories and

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    “Who knows when evil matters will come” the poem “At The Gates” talks of a man dealing with the death and poisoning of his “daughter” or a symbol for his innocence in the case of his daughters supposed death. The loss of one’s life, emotion, or anything close in that regard is a common theme displayed in African Literature and are used highly in Kofi Awoonor’s “At the Gates.” The loss of one man’s life in battle and his ascent to Heaven above is largely what “At the Gates” talks about as it is a

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    Innocence is something that can only be lost once. Within both The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley there are various characters that lose their innocence in very dramatic ways. A character can lose their innocence due to the death of someone else. They can also lose their innocence by just being looked at from a different perspective by others, this can be seen through the characters Bernard and Rachel. ADD ANOTHER TOPIC Someone who has lost their innocence

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    In the book Anthem, the color white is a symbol for innocence or lack of individuality of the citizens and also symbolizes death. This is because the color white often shows up at important parts of the plot to show the state of Equality 7-2521’s belief (or lack there of) in the society that he lives in. Anthem was written by a woman named Ayn Rand, who escaped communism and strongly believed in the importance of individuality. Her views show up in both the surface meaning and the symbolic meaning

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    Greasers are in poverty and are often shunned by society,but they have a passion for life, the exact opposite of the Socs. The story also discusses the loss of innocence in the main character, Ponyboy Curtis, a young teen in the 1960’s. Throughout the story he is subjected to many forms of corruption to make him lose his childhood innocence and make him cold and hard. Hinton explains this message to us through the use of a poem by Robert Frost ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay ‘

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    The loss of innocence, caused by the Holocaust, a genocide against the Jewish population that ultimately devastated the families of the six millions lives lost by destroying their previous lives, dreams, and future. Addressing the impacts on the biggest massacre in Human history, Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel describes the horrors on the suffering, killings, and the true loss of innocence. In the novel, Wiesel a Jew living in Germany during the time of Hitler’s reign was sent off to a concentration

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    Songs of Innocence and of Experience is the foundation of the work of one of the greatest. English poets and artists. The two sets of poems reveal what William Blake calls “the two contrary states of the human soul.” In both series, he offers clues to deeper meanings and suggests ways out of the apparent trap of selfhood, so that each reading provides greater insight and understanding, not only to the poems but also to human life. Throughout this poem, the logic of this poem favors experience rather

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