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Why We Behave as We Do

4 Pages 1019 Words June 2015

When an individual sits in public place such as a park surrounded with all kinds of people, he would be able to see that each person behaves differently. He would see people eating, exercising, singing, meditating, and furthermore, all these people have different styles of living and goals. But, what are the factors that make people be deferent from one another? Unfortunately, this is not a simple question to answer since everybody might have a different respond. However, if people analyze not only their own environment, but also other peoples’ environment from the time they were born, they would find differences, which could explain the reasons of both their behaviors and personality. For this reason, the family with whom a child grows up, the generation and the place in which he develops have a strong influence in what his personality will become.
When a human being is born, he depends on an adult who can take care of him. Babies are so defenseless that they can not even survive by themselves, so they need somebody else’s help. It is usually their parents the ones who assist them providing love affection and economy; however, not all parents are good, and as a result, some babies just end up receiving mistreatment, careless or hatred. The environment given by bad parents tend to impact children in a negative way. For example, George Orwell, a successful writer, who seems had suffered of lack of family support and company, in his essay “why I Write,” describes a part of his childhood writing: “I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely sow my father before I was eight” (90). The result of not having brothers with whom to share, and not having a role model to follow, in this case his father, created a character who classified himself as an unpopular child and a lonely person. It seems that children, who do not receive affection in their first years, have difficulties tru...

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