I M Not Scared Loss Of Innocence

The novel “I’m Not Scared” written by Niccolo Ammaniti, explores the loss of innocence throughout the community and the struggle between good and evil as everyone but especially Michele as he finds out the real truth about the adults in the village including his own father causing him to lose his innocence at such a young age. Ammaniti’s novel demonstrates morality as the struggle between good and evil, and not everyone is good even if they are super close to you, referring to Michele’s father as he is one of the adults who are involved in the kidnapping of Filippo. Loss of innocence slowly hits the whole village such as Michele and Salvatore as they find out about the kidnapping by the adults to try to help their financial situation. Ammaniti

The adults of Aqua Traverse kidnap Filippo, letting their greed take over them and kidnapping a little young boy just so that they can move to the North and improve their life not thinking of the consequences or possible outcomes. Michele finds out the truth about Filippo and how Filippo has been kidnapped by his Pino and the adults of the village, Michele is very confused about why his father would do this to a little boy so he asks his father why he did this to Fillipo and it is “to [move to] the north” (p.g 158). Michele doesn’t like how his father is trying to get the money to move their family to the North, so he tries to make a plan to free Filippo and bring him back to his mother who is pleasing on the television for the adults to let him return back to her. Ammaniti demonstrates how much greed took over Pino’s life as all he thought about is to move to the North, Pino is convinced that he is helping his family when in reality he is actually doing the opposite as they are actually following their moral compass that is full of good, Pino thinks that he is helping his family when he literally threatens his own son saying that he will “give [Michelle] the thrashing of [his] life”(p.g 156). Pino’s action of kidnapping Filippo causes his and Michele’s relationship to never be the same again, and for Micheal to see Pino as the boogyman who “takes the children away and sells them to the gypsies” (p.g. 87). Ammaniti uses a first-person narrative perspective to give the reader a deeper understanding of the situation Michele is in and a stronger understanding of how Michele felt in those situations when he found out that his dad is a kidnapper and threatens to beat him if he visits Filippo