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A loss of innocence is when people realize something. For example people realizing that not every one can be trusted or that Santa Claus is not real. It is also when you have something set in your mind. It can happen to anyone. It also does not discriminate based on age.

In To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout suffered from a loss of innocence. This happens when her father defends a black man. She did not realize how mean people could be. They were being made fun of for her dad's client. People were calling her dad names. People were not just mean to her father. They were mean to her and her brother too. She did not realize people were so set in their ways and small minded.

I recently suffered a loss of innocence, my great uncle was killed in a car accident on October 27. Since my grandfather passed away almost three years ago, my great uncle had been running the family business. Nobody else in the family can run it because they already have jobs and some live in different states. This is a loss of innocence for my whole family, when it closes it will be the first time in over 50 years it was not there. It has been there for most everyone in my families whole life and will be weird for it to not be there. We realized things can't go on forever.

These losses of innocence are related. Scout realized that people can be set in their ways and not easily changed. I realized things don't go on forever and things do change. These are the same because we realized things don't change or will change drastically. These are both losses of innocence, and I now realize it happens in real life and not just in books.