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What Determines a Person's Personality?
What is the cause for someone to act in a certain way? Are they born to be cruel or to be generous? The environment can determine ones personality. Similar to The Half Husky written by Margaret Laurence, Harvey Shinwell lived with an obnoxious aunt while Vanessa lives in a loving family; with a grandpa, a brother, and a loving mother. Could you tell how Harvey's and Vanessa's personality could differ from this?
Harvey Shinwell is a boy of much anger, due to the fact of his abusive aunt. She would slap him on the face with an "explosive quickness" but he would never respond spontaneously, in fact "he bore it, that she had hit him like that." (Page 156) Because of this, the anger builds up inside of him trying to find a way to let it out. When Nanuk was given to Vanessa, Harvey would "lit a whole bunch of matches...and put it on Nanuk's head" (page 154), jab a stick into Nanuk's face, and fired stones at Nanuk and hit him on the throat.......

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