The theme of innocence and experience is presented in the short story Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor. Hulga is a thirty-year-old woman with a wooden leg who clearly resents her mother for treating her like a child. Hulga lost a leg at a young age and has a terrible heart problem, so her mother always felt the need to treat her to a child. He did everything in his power to go against his mother. Knowing that she is not like the women around her who marry at an early age like Camarae or as beautiful as Glynese, Hulga drowns herself in reading and even earned a Ph.D. Her knowledge leads her to believe she is much smarter than those around her until she meets a young man named "Manley Pointer". Pointer catches her attention and for once she thinks someone understands her and acknowledges the fact that she is different until he walks away with his wooden leg and leaves her alone with no chance to get down the ladder and go home. An innocent encounter with a boy who thought he understood her turned into an experience that Hulga will never forget and I believe will ultimately leave her broken and only more wary of people. Novel: Other Rooms, Other Voices Joel Knox, a boy on a journey to meet his father for the first time and meets some really interesting people along the way and while he is there. The theme of coming of age is presented in the novel when Joel establishes a relationship with his stepmother Randolph's cross-dressing homosexual cousin and realizes that he too is homosexual. The relationship he forms with Randolph is an important relationship Joel has while living with his father. It's a relationship she wanted to have with her father but couldn't... middle of paper ...... ely Hunter. A story about loneliness, which may have been a topic close to her considering she spent much of her life very ill. Unfortunately she had a stroke and died after 46 days in a coma. Truman Capote, unlike McCullers, knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer. However, aunts and cousins ​​in Monroeville, Alabama, raised him, and like McCullers, he also went to live in New York, where he got his first chance to write for the New Yorker. Capote wrote his first novel Other Rooms, Other Voices in 1948, which received notoriety for its homosexual theme. Raised in the South, he inspired Capote from a lonely child to write such imaginative novels that he became someone who loved throwing lavish parties and being around people. Capote sadly moved on from excessive drug and alcohol use. Both have overcome their past, taken charge of their future and left a piece behind them