It seems like almost every day you hear about another missing child. Whether they were kidnapped, raped or abused, something is always happening. Walk into the gas station and you’ll see a board of missing children. Go on twitter and read about an innocent missing little girl. Watch the news and you’re almost guaranteed to hear about a child murder. But yet, how many of us can honestly say we have been educated about all of this? Something that happens every day and most of us don’t have a clue that it’s going on. Vladimir Nabokov greatly explained situations like these in his novel, Lolita. Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1899. He spent most of his childhood reading in French, English and Russian. After they Bolshevik revolution, his family went into exile while he attended Cambridge university. After many years spent in Berlin and Paris, he wrote many novels, poems, and short stories in Russian. In 1940, he moved to the United States with his wife and son where he taught Russian. He wrote Lolita in 1955 and shortly after, moved to Switzerland and died in 1977. Many people would say he has something wrong with his head after reading Lolita, but in my opinion he is just stating the truth that most people are too careless to see. Lolita is a novel about an older man named Humbert who has an obsession with the innocence of little girls. He seduces “nymphs” which are young girls between the ages of 14 and 17 who have sexual appeal. When he meets a 12 year old girl named Lolita, he falls in love and does anything and everything to be with her. It is the most disturbing book I have ever read but it shows exactly what goes through a man’s head when he sees little girls. One of the main themes in Lolita is innocence. Nabokov shows this because Humbert takes away the innocence of the little girls. “She groped for words. I supplied them mentally “he