INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE
Since human beings have been able to think, they were asking themselves about their life, their meaning: they have taken into consideration their existence. The deepest discussed ethical questions are about life, innocence and experience. The purpose of this discussion is to demonstrate that experience can improve human life where disappointment is the essential passage from innocence to experience. Admittedly it is going to far to assert that experience also can't improve the life, for instance if a little boy affront to be subjected to the war, he could be psychologically shock for all his life. In this sense experience can destroy the future boy life. The disappointment has for result the experience which is something indelible in our memory. In the following pages we will first look at the relationship between innocence and experience at the beginning of life before seeing that all the illusions of childhood are destroyed by a gain of experience in the beginning of adulthood. To qualify experience through human life, we have firstly to define it. The notion of experience is, of course, quite difficult to determine. But , according to some people, it is the experien
"Into the dangerous world I leapt, In One Friday Morning of Langston Huges, Nancy Lee feels the same mixture of disappointment and anger. The injustice that submits Nancy Lee is of racial order. She learns that she has won the Artist Club Scholarship for then being an award student at the Art School. She is very proud and happy that her social class has been recognised. But when the committee of the Artist Club learns that she is coloured, and changes its plans because there have never been any Negro students in the Art School. At this moment all the hopes, all the believes which make America as a country with "Liberty and Justice for all" are illusions. This stage which makes up disappointment allows the child to have experience to understand and enter in the adult's world. In this sense experience is necessary to survive. Without any experience, it's difficult to fight the life. The experience mould the man ! withdraw into oneself and showing that innocence act on the human as an invisible sweet joy but two days old, Lastly we can take the example of Rosaura, in The Stolen Party written by Liliana Heker, who does not believe her mother when she explains her that the barrier between rich and poor is real. Because Rosaura does not want to be disappointed by a such reality, she prefers go to her friend's party with the illusion to be considered with honour and privilege like the others whereas she is considered just like "the daughter of the employee". In this case, the reality is hidden by her innocence. That is why experience is necessary for human life. From the obligatory passage of the disappointment, everyone overcome in a different manner. In fact , this new experience drive Rosaura to a new way, a best one maybe? I sing the while-
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Approximate Word count = 2039
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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