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    verbal techniques to successfully convey the main idea of loss of innocence; this idea is relevant today to teenagers and shows their actions due to it. The main idea is presented to the viewer in three vignettes; banks of the river, burial site, and taking the police to the burial site. In the vignette ‘Banks of the river’ the director successfully displayed the use of verbal and visual techniques to show the relevant idea of loss of innocence. For instance, the visual technique blue filter shows that

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    who he has soft spot for in his heart, we see that he’s very protective of them, either from the loss of innocence that he values, or from the

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    After watching the movie A Rebel Without a Cause and reading Catcher in the Rye they both share the theme of Loss of Innocence. Both the novel and the movie went by is that life is too short to grow up and be responsible. Loss of innocence is shown in both because both main characters are trying to anything possible to protect someone they love. In the novel Catcher in the Rye the Holden Caulfield a 16 year old kid that goes to Pencey Prep School. He had just gotten expelled from Pencey Prep

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    Innocence is a prominent theme in Lord of the Flies, and the characters in the novel certainly reflect this well. Every character in the novel, from Ralph to Roger, reacts differently to the events in the novel, and these reactions can either simply reflect their innocence or decrease their lack of guile, corrupting them into a completely unrecognisable person. By exploring the theme of innocence, we readers are better able to infer Golding's belief that innocence may not coexist with man's innately

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    McEwan uses irony to express loss of innocence over time and because of war by using amo chocolate. Paul Marshall is known as “the chocolate millionaire” (McEwan, 26) because he sells amo chocolate to the soldiers and earns an abundant amount of money doing so. The word amo is a pun because it shoulds like the word ammo which is used in guns. The word amo is also a reference to Latin meaning love. In World War II, most soldiers were just a child living at home under the supervision of their parents

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    use similar metaphors to describe what it’s like to for a child to lose their innocence. These metaphors accentuate the simplicity of a child that is lost later in the poem when a the more realistic view and even physical process of becoming an adult begins. In The Ball Poem by John Berryman and in Quinceañera by Judith Ortiz Cofer metaphors simple childlike metaphors are used to transition into the loss of innocence that brings about the reality of an adult’s life. In The Ball Poem by John Berryman

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    Au Revoir Les Enfants

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    His begs his mother to stay, but she pacifies him by saying that she will see him soon and will write him often. This first goodbye sets a pattern of loneliness for Julien and the first example of the loss of innocence. Every child wants to be with their mother, but when sent off to boarding school, a child must learn to be independent. This independence for a child can be lonely. This loneliness is portrayed several times throughout the film. The first

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    Symbolism in Catcher in the Rye The author J.D Salinger conveys the theme of the loss of innocence in title?? using symbolism. Through the short journey that Holden goes through in the novel and the interactions and experiences, fights and struggles that Holden partakes in, the reader watches and is delivered the authors ideas on life. There are three main symbols that directly introduce the theme and these symbols those are the red hunting hat, the ducks in central park, and the carousel. By using

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    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 man waiting at the gates

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    archetypal criticism through the loss of innocence, recurring symbolic situations and the aspect of a conventional heroes throughout this text. Many texts have similar concepts of losing someone. In this text, the loss of innocence occurs throughout the text. Not only does it appears in Findley’s text, but also is portrayed through many literatures. Many individuals throughout history portrayed loss of innocence through their text. Jennifer Smith states, “Although my innocence was lost with the death of

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