i guess that they couldn't write him the same because he wasn't...he had been through too much, seen too much. And we know that our innocence is fragile. Perhaps a child's 'innocence' isn't at all about remaining a virgin or being chaste... but more what the heart and brain goes through and how they develop because of our childhood plights. He saved his mom.... but his mom died anyway. He was given several years with her but not a pass. We tend to forget some of the most traumatic things about our youth, our innocence takes over and perhaps covers our eyes when we so desperately need it to.
Maybe that's part of the reason i love him so, that beautiful boy of my heart.... if only, in some of the darker moments of my life, Jack could have saved me.