... in their naivety of the true state of the world while their parents are supervising and apprehensively discussing the current state of violence in the Middle East. Furthermore, a large amount of children do not understand the concept of death, asking when a deceased grandparent might return while the mother is grieving for the loss of a loved one with the knowledge that the person shall ... not return. Seeing as how so many modern literary works center around loss, the sadness brought by knowledge is repeatedly emphasized in books and movies and the like. For example, at the end of Brec...

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