Given what you know now about pumpkins (jack o' lanterns) after reading this article, what is symbolic about the pumpkin at the end of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"? In other words, why did Irving choose the pumpkin to be left behind? What could he be saying about Ichabod and the other characters?

innocence can be defined as the lack of sin, relating it with the lack of guilt, also it can be a synonime of naivety. most people agree that sins are made out of experiences, intentionally or not, as well as you stop being naive once certain things happen to you throughout your life. so, with this explained, the chosen answers are:

when the boy saw the effects of war, he no longer viewed life as innocent.

the loss of innocence is a result of gaining experience and making mistakes.

one way to define innocence is as a lack of worldly experience or sophistication.

answer: honestly, me too dude. i feel that.

explanation:

i would have to say "a" or "d".

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