Loss of Innocents

The losss of innocents can be thought of in many different ways. You can think about it as the very first time that you lost your sexual virginity. You can also think of it as the first time that you were able to read a book all by your self, or the first time that you tied your shoes for the first time without any help. This is your education virginity, which is taken away from you every time that you learn something. All of the stories and retellings that we have read over the course of this class are takeing away out educational virginity, becuase they are teaching us things that we didn't know before, and they are makeing us think about things in different ways that we would have never thought about before. In the Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood stories we talked about how they are talking about sexual virginity, but know that I have learned some ways to think about the different stories I am begining to think that these stories are not just talking about sexual virginity, but educational virinity also. These young girls are starting to become wise to the world, and learn different things about their families, as well as the people and the places around them. In Little Red Riding Hood she learns the ways of the world from the wolf, and looses her educational virginity.