Innocence Quick Write

The innocence of a child should be preserved to only some extent. A child

should learn the reality of the world, as it is not a place where everything is moral. It
is better to grasp an understanding of how society works early on, so they will not
be crushed with the burden of an imperfect world. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird,
when Dolphus Raymond explains the reasons for why he created a false persona of
himself, he tells the children, Things havent caught up with that ones [Dills]
instinct yet. Let him get a little older and he wont get sick and cry. Maybe thingsll
strike him as being-not quite right, say, but he wont cry, not when he gets a few
years on him. (Lee page 269). This shows how certain events affect innocent
children. Dill ran out of the court feeling sick after he realized what was going on,
and this was a reaction of him losing his innocence. In some ways, he was better off
learning what the errors of the world was early on. It saved him from the horrid
realization later on in life. Now he can approach these issues with a more mature
mind, and he may even cause this errors to be fixed. To conclude, innocence should
be saved till the time is right, which may be sooner than later.