They came to the finishing line still holding hands and a standing ovation and nine beaming faces said more than these words ever will 1) Who is the poet referring to?
2) Why where 'they' holding hands? What does it signify?
3) What does the poet mean by the last two lines of the extract?
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1.  The poet is referring to the participants of the race

2. They held hands to finish the race together

3. This signifies that the participants care about eachother

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.