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@article{187127,
        author = {Mrs. ANUSHYA G R},
        title = {The Wonder and Wisdom in a Child's Voice: Rethinking Moral Agency in Children's Narratives},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {6},
        pages = {3589-3592},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=187127},
        abstract = {This article offers a novel view on the morality in modern fictions via children's narrative voices from To Kill a Mockingbird's Scout Finch, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time's Christopher Boone and Wonder's August Pullman: by utilizing their respective sense of empathy, logic and care, each individual unveils the ethical shortcomings of adults. Scout's insight shows empathy as an active form of moral perception, exposing the hypocrisy of racism; Christopher's radical honesty reveals the conflict between truth and care; Auggie's kindness highlights relational ethics as brave actions. Drawing on Nikolajeva’s narratology, Nussbaum’s ethics of emotion, and Gilligan’s care philosophy, the paper argues children’s voices actively critique adult morality, renewing ethical imagination. The findings have crucial implications for pedagogy and literary analysis by recognizing children as profound ethical thinkers.},
        keywords = {Child narrator, Moral agency, Empathy, Narratology, Wonder.},
        month = {November},
        }