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Importance Of Ignorance
A cooperative society is where all people fulfill their roles and the community can run smoothly. A society can only be run if the people within the society are functioning properly. Knowledge and experience can be functional to people because they can use their experiences and learn what is better to do in certain situations. However, I believe innocence and ignorance to roles and situations are more functional for people. Innocence and ignorance helps run a cooperative society because we are blind to the unknown and continue to fulfill our roles. We will not “be hopelessly neurotic” because we will not find out that we are “confined in darkness” and “her true role is less that of a queen than mother of the hive” when knowledge does not consume …show more content…
In an united society, knowledge can be used to learn more about one’s role in the community and in Lily’s case, to find out the truth about one’s past. In a cooperative society, experience and knowledge can help a person learn how to do their role correctly and can help influence decisions. People can use their experiences and knowledge from these experiences to help them make right decisions, but it can also help them make out of character decisions that they may regret. Some may argue that innocence and ignorance causes people to ignore the truth and once the truth is revealed it causes more collateral damage than just being straightforward with the truth beforehand. However, knowledge and experience causes internal and external pains that ignorance and innocence could limit for as long as the person being ignorant and innocent wants to ignore the …show more content…
When Lily finds out she was abandoned by her loving mother, her anger consumes her and she explodes by throwing jars of honey everywhere. “My mother had left me...Around me, jagged pieces of jars and puddles of honey. Blood dotted the floor,” (Kidd 259, 261). Lily’s emotions got the best of her and she did not care she made a mess and did not care that she hurt herself physically in the process of mourning. She got glass in her arm and was bleeding. As someone who has stepped on glass before, I know that glass in skin hurts. Knowledge caused Lily to feel external pain, and if Lily never gained this knowledge, then her anger would never be triggered. She would not have thrown all the jars of honey to release her anger, and she would not have gotten cut by the glass. Therefore, knowledge not only emotionally hurt Lily, but it physically hurt Lily
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