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** [[spoiler: Which is not what she was told earlier...]]

* [[Umineko no naku koro ni]] has Maria explain what was really her mother not caring about her as what basically sums up to her mother being busy and forgetful.

** The film has a lot of this. When Roy, is telling the FracturedFairyTale to Alexandria, she imagines things that are clearly not the way he intended them, for example he includes a [[MagicalNativeAmerican Native American]] character that he simply calls [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep the Indian]]. Alexandria imagines the character as someone who actually is from India. There's also a heavy subversion later: [[spoiler:at one point Roy starts falling asleep in the middle of storytelling and Alexandria can't wake him back up. The audience thinks that it's because Roy has taken an overdose of morphine is dead while Alexandria innocently thinks that he's just asleep, however the next day we discover that the "morphine" was just a placebo.]]

* [[SayonaraZetsubouSensei Kafuka Fura]], though whether she's naïve or delusional is up for debate.
* ''ShoujoKakumeiUtena'': Utena [[spoiler: witnessed Anthy's pain at the Ends of the World]] when she was a child. She couldn't possible have understood what she was seeing, and ended up forgetting all of it. She just wanted to grow up and be a cool prince just like the guy who showed her that whatever-it-was. (During this same sequence (but shown ''much'' earlier on in the series, before the ''real'' WhamEpisode) Touga and Saijonji found Utena and tried to save her. It made Saionji, who pretty much misunderstood the whole thing, realize that he wanted "something eternal"... which in turn led to his very misguided attempts at securing Anthy as his "eternal thing". Touga didn't get off much better, trying to emulate a suave prince despite a FundamentalMisunderstanding that his personality couldn't correct. It's complicated.)

** My teacher also noted when his father started getting, physical, per se with his much older neighbour [[spoiler: You know, lying his head inside/on top of her breasts]] This flies completely over Christophers head. Most readers will get the implication, but to him it's just what happened. He didn't see the romantic/sexual connotations of that particular choice.

* The start [[spoiler: and end]] of ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon''. The middle ''may'' count as well, but I'm not sure if being super intelligent eliminated his naivete.

* In ''{{The Boy in the Striped Pajamas}}'', an eight year old named Bruno has a father who is very high up and important. His father works for the Fury [[spoiler: (Fuhrer)]], and is forced to leave his old home in Berlin with the rest of the family. They move to a place named Out-With [[spoiler: (Auschwitz)]] wherein he isn't really happy. He never understands why his mother starts taking so many medicinal sherries and long naps, and why the young but cruel Lt. Kotler seems to be around so much. [[spoiler: (She's having an affair with him.)]] He retains his naivete even after meeting and speaking regularly with someone from the other side of the fence, "Shmuel".

* The five-year-old protagonist of ''TheFall'' pretty clearly had to immigrate to the United States because of a pogrom of some sort against her family--but when the adult protagonist tries to find out more, all she says is that "angry people" were responsible.

* ''Chickamauga'' by Ambrose Bierce

* [[FullMetalAlchemist Maes Hughes's]] daughter at [[spoiler: his funeral]].

* [[SayonaraZetsubouSensei Kafuka Fura]] is basically this trope incarnate, though whether she's naïve or delusional is up for debate.

* Horrible example in WorldWarZ, as befitting a ZombieApocalypse. One interviewee was a little girl when her family was killed after the dead siege the church they and many others had looked for shelter. The ammo was running out and the dead had broken in and were chewing through the crush of people. The last she saw of her mother was as she was trying to strangle her for a MercyKill. She related this all in the voice of a little girl (with sound effects!) despite being a in a 20 something woman.

** My teacher also noted when his father started getting, physical, per say with his much older neighbour [[spoiler: You know, lying his head inside/on top of her breasts]] This flies completely over Christophers head. Most readers will get the implication, but to him it's just what happened. He didn't see the romantic/sexual connotations of that particular choice.

** My teacher also noted when his father started getting, physical, per say with his much older neighbour [[spoiler: You know, lying his head inside/on top of her breasts]]
This flies completely over Christophers head. Most readers will get the implication, but to him it's just what happened. He didn't see the romantic/sexual connotations of that particular choice.

*** It's worth noting that he is actually more upset by the fact that strangers are trying to talk to him and doesn't seem to pay much attention to what they're ''actually saying'' (one woman is actually asking if he's okay,) and he informs them (not threatening, just informing) that he has a small saw blade on his Swiss army knife [[NightmareFuel with which he could cut off their fingers]]. What he leaves out is that he's uncomfortable (at best) around strangers, so the other people take this as a threat and leave him alone, not because "he's fine on his own," but because "this kid is messed up."

* In ''28 Days'' in a flashback, the sisters' alcoholic mother dies when they are young. When their aunt takes the girls away because their mother is 'sleeping and won't wake up' the younger girl says 'oh that's ok, just slap her real hard and she'll wake up'.

* Horrible example in WorldWarZ, as befitting a ZombieApocalypse. One interviewee was a little girl when her family was killed after the dead sieged the church they and many others had looked for shelter. The ammo was running out and the dead had broken in and were chewing through the crush of people. The last she saw of her mother was as she was trying to strangle her for a MercyKill. She related this all in the voice of a little girl (with sound effects!) despite being a in a 20 something woman.

*** It's worth noting that he is actually more upset by the fact that strangers are trying to talk to him and doesn't seem to pay much attention to what they're ''actually saying'' (one woman is actually asking if he's okay,) and he informs them (not threatening, just informing) that he has a small saw blade on his swiss army knife [[NightmareFuel with which he could cut off their fingers]]. What he leaves out is that he's uncomfortable (at best) around strangers, so the other people take this as a threat and leave him alone, not because "he's fine on his own," but because "this kid is messed up."

* At the beginning of ''TheSecretGarden'', the 10-year-old Mary Lennox lives through a cholera outbreak in India. She wakes to find herself alone but despite the unsettling signs all around does not realise the whole household has died.

* In ''EerieCuties'', [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20091207.html Nina's history assigment]] about an ancient vampire queen.

* A possible inversion in {{Achewood}}'s strip: Lie Bot is telling Phillipe about the saddest thing: http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uua2mp3dR

* The five-year-old protagonist of ''The Fall'' pretty clearly had to immigrate to the United States because of a pogrom of some sort against her family--but when the adult protagonist tries to find out more, all she says is that "angry people" were responsible.

* Humpty Dumpty from the ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' mini-series ''Arkham Asylum: Living Hell'' who dissected his abusive grandmother and sewed her back together with bootlace in an ill-thought attempt to "fix" her.

* ''ShoujoKakumeiUtena'': Utena [[spoiler: witnessed Anthy's pain at the Ends of the World]] when she was a child. She couldn't possible have understood what she was seeing, and ended up forgetting all of it. She just wanted to grow up and be a cool prince just like the guy who showed her that whatever-it-was. (During this same sequence (but shown ''much'' earlier on in the series, before the ''real'' WhamEpisode) Touga and Saijonji found Utena and tried to save her. It made Saionji, who pretty much misunderstood the whole thing, realize that he wanted "something eternal"... which in turn led to his very misguided attempts at securing Anthy as his "eternal thing". It's complicated.)