Loss Of Innocence In The Storyteller By Jodi Picous

In the Storyteller, Jodi Picoult has multiple characters going through different types of loss. It shows you how throughout the book when they meet the teacher, they go through loss but at different rates and experiences.

Throughout the StoryTeller, Sage and Minka go through several experiences that made them face the loss of identity and innocence. Both have trauma that makes them who they are as a person. The loss of innocence has been inflicted upon them at different rates and different experiences. Earlier in The Storyteller, Sage had met a man named Joseph. He was a Nazi and he performed horrible duties as one. Sage didn't know that when she met him. Joseph portrayed himself as a good human being. After portraying himself as an amazing

That image of him was destroyed after he came to Sage and asked her to kill him. I would like you to help me die. “ ( 47). Hearing that at such a young age can make you start to grow up and think differently. Before they actually think to go through with this plan, the sage comes to Joseph house and discusses more details wise. While they are still talking and finding out about his secret identity, Joseph later on asked Sage to forgive him for all the things he did because she was Jewish. At that moment she realized he didn't really care to talk to her or get to know her; he just saw Sage as another Jewish person. One that can “ forgive” him for the hateful crimes he committed. While Minka had a different experience of losing herself, she had been a victim of the Holocaust and went through many horrific experiences during that. She still felt like herself when being shipped off to a camp, however when they buzzed her hair off initially, she lost her sense of identity. She was “ fighting” to keep a piece of herself so she could feel like a person and not just another prisoner. “buzzing my hair off at the scalp. it was at this moment i realized i wasn't minka anymore” (276). Minka was in love with her hair.

While going through the book, you can notice how many people grieve differently and Joseph and Minak are experiencing two different types of grief while coming across each other. While Minka was going through the holocaust and concentration camps, she met this woman named Darija. In the storyteller, Picoult seems to make it out as thats her only family throughout this process. While their days go on in the concentration camps, a moment where Darija and Minka run away and the soldiers find them and snached them and took them to an office. He later kills Darija.“ He pulled his pistol out of its holster and shot Darija in the face. She fell, still holding on to my hand.” (336). After Daria was shot in the face, she was still holding on to Minkas hand. After seeing her get shot and having the feeling of her best friend's blood all over her. Minka had dropped down and fell, swaying back and forth, crying while Darija was in her arms. Having to lose so much already just as a person, but losing the closest thing to a family member. She only had the moment to grieve Darija because she was worried the same thing might happen to her if she said anything like Darija. Joseph lost a loved one but didn't necessarily grieve him the way Minka gave him dairja. Joseph had a brother throughout the book. His brother was the one who shot and killed Darja. His brother was dying right in front of him and didn't feel any type of emotion. “ this man