{"id":320,"date":"2020-09-23T16:38:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T20:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/?p=320"},"modified":"2020-09-24T21:54:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T01:54:23","slug":"childhood-innocence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/2020\/09\/23\/childhood-innocence\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood Innocence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After reading and discussing <em>Mojo Mickybo<\/em> this week, I definitely gained more of an emotional sense of what went on in Northern Ireland during \u201cThe Troubles.\u201d By writing about problems through the eyes of children, Owen McCafferty criticizes Northern Ireland\u2019s culture of violence and division. The portrayal of these young boys\u2019 loss of innocence makes the audience realize the profound impacts of violence and hate that perpetuate society. People tend to see children as universally innocent and deserving of no harm, no matter where they come from or to what group they identify. McCafferty uses this human tendency to demonstrate how the violence and hate perpetuated by the adults in kids\u2019 lives affects how children think, act, and feel. He implies that hate is not a natural human tendency, but is taught to us through socialization. The boys live in a world filled with childlike wonder even though they are surrounded by violence and war. At the end, when the boys are no longer friends, McCafferty shows how there is no hope for unity and friendship among groups as long as the societies that they are living in teach them to hate one another.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When reading this text, I made the connection to how it is common for young people now to generalize all old people as racist. We mostly attribute it to the generation in which they were born, where they were taught the racism and hate in their households, schools, and other communities growing up. The fact that kids in America now seem to have less racial prejudice than their elders shows that prejudice is not a natural human tendency but taught by society. So although there is still much work to be done in terms of racism in America, today\u2019s children show that there is hope, as long as we try our best to not teach them hate and prejudice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading and discussing Mojo Mickybo this week, I definitely gained more of an emotional sense of what went on in Northern Ireland during \u201cThe Troubles.\u201d By writing about problems through the eyes of children, Owen McCafferty criticizes Northern Ireland\u2019s culture of violence and division. The portrayal of these young boys\u2019 loss of innocence makes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/2020\/09\/23\/childhood-innocence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Childhood Innocence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}