2. why does the author call the neighboring country “the spanish-speaking country"?
a. to show that the people of haiti thought they were beiter than their neighbors
b. to illustrate the narrator's lack of exposure to information outside of haiti
to emphasize its role in a traumatic history by refusing to acknowledge it by name
d. to suggest that her mother was prejudiced against the people that lived in that country

b. to illustrate the narrator's lack of exposure to information outside of haiti

to emphasize its role in a traumatic history by refusing to acknowledge it by name

explanation:

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.