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Innocence and Experience

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1 Innocence and Experience
As a young child starts to experience the cruelties and injustices of the world, they lose their innocence and gain knowledge when they enter the world of adults.

2 Quote from Chapter 11 “Atticus,” I said one evening, what exactly is a nigger lover?” "Scout," said Atticus, "nigger-lover is just one of those terms that don't mean anything—like snot-nose. It's hard to explain—ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody's favoring Negroes over and above themselves. It's slipped into usage with some people like ourselves, when they want a common, ugly term to label somebody."

3 These two boys wanted to fool their teacher with the same haircut
These two boys wanted to fool their teacher with the same haircut. The still have the innocence of childhood since they don’t see the colour of their skin as something that makes them different from each other.

4 Innocence in Scout; Experience in Jem
“Jem,” I asked, “what’s a mixed child?” “Half white, half colored…. “They’re real sad.” “Sad, how come?” “They don’t belong anywhere. Colored folks won’t have ‘em because they are half white; white folks won’t have them cause they are colored.” It seems Scout is starting to understand some of the sadness and injustice in Maycomb and he is teaching his sister.

5 A mixed race couple in South Africa
It’s sad to think that the little boy in this picture would not be accepted by any race of people in 1930s Alabama.


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