JWHcjames588+Lessons+Learned

American History's main theme is innocence is part of growing up and no matter what its lost with your rite of passage. When your young your innocent because you ablevious to the workings of real life. You just don't know any better. Elena is a teen who likes a boy of a different race, but they become friends any way and they start walking together and talking alot and one day Eugene asks her to study with him. Her mother warns her that her fate is inevitable and they can never be friends. Then she is rubbed of her innocence by Eugene's mom! What a cruel fate; she can't be with the boy she likes because he's white. She learned not to under estimate the power of hate, and what people will do to you. Innocence doesn't protect you for long or save you from the expected. This was her rite of passage to the adult world; she can never live a carefree existence again.