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=__Loss Of Innocence Between Scout And I__=

An example of a loss of innocence between Scout and I would be lieing and telling the truth. When Scout walks into school on the first day, she teaches Miss Caroline that the Cunninghams are pretty much the poorest people in the town of Maycomb. By telling the truth, she gets herself in big trouble with little Walter and Miss Caroline. Miss Caroline gets upset at the fact that Scout was making fun of Walter and his family because they are very poor. Since Scout got in trouble, she beats up little Walter for being so poor. That's not very wise to do but that is one of her many losses of innocence. By this, Scout lost her innocence for telling the truth when she should have told a lie or not say anything at all.

I can relate to what Scout has done at school when I was younger and in elementary school. I told the truth to my teacher when I shouldn't have said anything at all. One time in first grade, I went to Phineas Davis Elementary school. It was nice but not the best. So I was in class learning how to say certain words with apostrophes in them. One of the words was "we're". Like "we are". I always pronounced the word as were but still saying "we're". She yelled at me and sat me in the corner because I apparently didn't listen. Well that's a life lesson, the teacher that's 39 years old is going to know how to talk better than you in first grade. I should have just listened and went on with the class.

In conclusion, Scout and I have both hopefully learned from our mistakes and experienced our loss of innocence during school. Hopefully I can connect more with this novel as I read further into it.