Adults with authority and experience are responsible for destroying the innocence of childhood. Blake's narrator presumably comes from the world of experience and has the ability to communicate ongoing injustice. “They think they have done me no harm/and have gone to praise God and his priest and king/who make a heaven of our misery” (10-12). Blake demonstrates that those in power commit hypocrisy. Religious doctrine does not save children from poverty. Rather, religion is used to imprison and trap children into obedience. Once beings experience inner awakening, the child will realize that he or she has been wronged. However, he will do nothing due to the rigorous conditioning carried out by the hypocrites