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What is innocence and how is it related to ignorance? We know the answer to this one: they both start with an I. ...Right?
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in To kill a mockingbird coming
- 00:07
of age i last month everyone in the book has
- 00:11
this innocence about them It's just that scout is the
- 00:14
only one who should be allowed to she's the six
- 00:17
year old these other people are all exactly is naive
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- 00:20
but they're adults they should know better so it's through
- 00:23
scout that we kind of are able to see that
- 00:26
this's how you are when you're born you say oh
- 00:28
i don't know any better but i i do know
- 00:31
i am gonna question it because it doesn't why's this
- 00:33
why's that she's always asking but then you know as
- 00:35
you get older you do learn things and so these
- 00:38
people should have learned that what is happening is wrong
- 00:41
and they still have not and it's because they're a
- 00:43
product of their society at a kiss also knows what's
- 00:47
going on but he doesn't get riled up about it
- 00:53
So we see the innocents scout getting riled up about
- 00:57
everything and whether this is ah product of her youth
- 01:01
or her personality When things happen with atticus for example
- 01:05
tom robinson is declared guilty and all he does is
- 01:09
say well let's just wait For the appeal he walks
- 01:13
out of the courtroom You know they stand up He
- 01:14
doesn't make a fuss he's not appalled because if he
- 01:18
was expecting it whether that's a good thing or a
- 01:21
bad thing that he you know should he have stood
- 01:23
up and thought more maybe but he kind of is
- 01:26
expecting it So keys I guess more of a jaded
- 01:29
character where we have you know the youthful innocence of
- 01:32
scout We have you know the jaded cynicism of atticus
- 01:35
where he does everything right But he just knows that
- 01:38
that what he's doing isn't enough and it just never
- 01:41
will be What is innocents And how is it related 00:01:47.171 --> [endTime] to ignorant Who in the novelist innocents and won
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