Part one of term paper
ESSAY QUESTION is about the loss of innocence and the painful gain of wisdom. Discuss. In Montana, the summer of 1948 held a series of tragic events which were to have a permanent and decisive impact on David and his parents. This chain of events were to turn David’s young life and that of his family upside down forever and which was to s ...

Part two of term paper
... combined with the respect in which the much loved and admired Frank is held by both the townspeople and David, that make the events which occur suddenly and with increasing speed, so shocking and destructive, particularly for David. David’s view of life dramatically starts to change through the eavesdropping of his mother and father’s conversation regarding Frank’s behaviour towards the woman on the Indian reservation. While David must pretend, not just for the remainder ...