Since human beings have been able to think, they were asking themselves about their life, their meaning: they have taken into consideration their existence. The deepest discussed ethical questions are about life, innocence and experience. The purpose of this discussion is to demonstrate that experience can improve human life where disappointment is the essential passage from innocence to experience. Admittedly it is going to far to assert that experience also can't improve the life, for instance if a little boy affront to be subjected to the war, he could be psychologically shock for all his life. In this sense experience can destroy the future boy life. The disappointment has for result the experience which is something indelible in our memory. In the following pages we will first look at the relationship between innocence and experience at the beginning of life before seeing that all the illusions of childhood are destroyed by a gain of experience in the beginning of adulthood.
To qualify experience through human life, we have firstly to define it. The notion of experience is, of course, quite difficult to determine. But , according to some people, it is the experience of our own being. In this sense, it exists a need of experience, demonstrated by Shopenhawer ( French philosopher), which is a constituent of our humanity. Indeed, experience is a fact of acquiring a moral knowledge, a process which starts at your birth. Now we will try to describe children' innocence trough his environment, his world and the gap which separated his perception to reality. Childhood is a period of experience and innocence. A young person will not evaluate what happen around him, he will just remind parent's ideology, point of view. This is a period of frivolity and naivety. Childhood is also a period where adults seem nice and sincere, more they represent justice and honesty but it is not always the truth. For children they can't be wrong. But most of the time, disappointments come from them. Often young's dreams are broken, which correspond to the self-deception. By example in the text Graduation of Maya Angelou, during the ceremony, all the hopes of the young woman have been reduced :"I was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life" (859). Confronted to discovery, children or even adults are not prepared to lose their belief; actually, the world is not as they have imagined.