The Corrruption of Innocence
It has struck some leaving a lasting impact while others just let it go by. Some would see it as corruption, and others see everyday life. I see it as the pure loss of innocence in a world of corruption. This new issue has risen in today's generation leaving no one free of it wrath. This has not been the first we have seen of this. The loss of innocence has been referred to over years by many authors, but now we come to see it in our lives a lot more frequently. According to authors like Emerson and Salinger, who although wrote their pieces so far apart, feel everyday in life the American Character is faced upon with the corruption of innocence that takes away from their unique American Character. In his book, The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger focuses on the theme of innocence for a large amount of time. Holden constantly refers to everyone as being a phony and that they had lost their innocence, which had been corrupted when they matured and were exposed to society. The society had exposed them to the real world and made them think in order to survive they must follow others. Holden goes in part of the book about jobs he likes and starts to describe job of a lawyer and says how they a
Another author who also uses the role of innocence and corruption as a major theme is Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay "Self-Reliance". Emerson goes on for pages about how not to be affected by other's opinions because this will corrupt your ideas. He also says not to conform to others ideas but stay true to your own. One sentence he goes on to say that who is man must be a nonconformist. (Emerson 494) This relates to the role of innocence because the criticism people say about your ideas will only corrupt your way of thinking and lead you to act phony to please others. This leads to the thought that you should not be influenced by what others say because you are your own person and you should stay with your beliefs. He also goes on to say in one paragraph that "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with the independence of solitude" which can go on to mean that it is easy to follow others ideas when in the crowd and easy to follow your own ideas when alone, but it is a truly great man who can follow his own beliefs among a crowd. (Emerson 495) This again shows that a truly great man is a man whose ideas and beliefs had not been corrupted by the thoughts of society, yet a person whose inno
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