Carnal knowledge

Finch children are forced to mature, sooner than they should, in the neighborhood they live in. Later in the book, Jem and Scout attend Atticus’s court hearing of the suspected rape, which highly impacted Scout’s innocence because she was young and unknowing. “Well, if everybody in Maycomb knows what kind of folks the Ewells are they’d be glad to hire Helen... What’s rape Cal” (Lee 164-165)? This piece of evidence shows the reader that Scout did not know what rape was before the hearing. Seeing how Calpurnia responds to this question, by telling her to ask her father, the reader knows this is a mature and non-innocent topic. “...rape was carnal knowledge of a female by force and without consent.” (Lee 180). Scout, being a child, may think this is not as bad because she does not understand what ”carnal knowledge” is; she simply thinks carnal knowledge is learning something. This again shows that Scout is to innocent, which Atticus understands, to know 100% what rape is. When finally at the hearing, Scout is exposed to deep and graphic details. Witnesses that are called to stand give graphic descriptions of apparent actions and injuries given to Mayella, and Scout is forced to hear all of these sayings. Most children Scouts age do not fully understand what violence is and Scout is now learning the true meaning and destruction violence can cause. Overall, Scout shows a loss of innocence during and after the court hearing. In the last few chapters, Jem and Scout are attacked…

The short stories, “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner, “An Ounce of Cure” by Alice Munro, and “Carnal Knowledge” by T. C. Boyle are all similar in the way that the protagonists in each story are stubborn. They do not see that the choices they make negatively impact them and those around them. In the story “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner, the protagonist, Colonel Sartoris Snopes, Sarty for short, is caught between a character vs. character conflict between him and his father, Abner Snopes.…

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Within the story “Carnal Knowledge” by T. Coraghessan Boyle, ideological values create an inner conflict between Jim and himself. He has to figure out what is more important to him: giving up the values in which he has grown up with his entire life or Alena Jorgensen. While he may not notice it as dramatically as the readers do, he is giving up his entire self just so that he can be exactly what Alena wants him to be. Jim is giving up his identity for the one she created for him. While Alena’s…

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Fate, the idea that one has a predetermined future, plays a major role in this reality. Gods have a tremendous influence over humans and play with their lives like a game of chess. In fact, without the gods, men are believed to lack knowledge and the power of decision. The testimony of a god makes something true, and consequently, piety is momentously important; what the gods say and do are thought to be correct and able to be used as models for moral action. Purging and "houses ridden by a…