Every teenager’s life is not perfect. There are events that will be regretted. During teenage years, various different negative experiences can produce a positive change. Personalities alter over time and through tough obstacles, teens improve themselves to benefit their own lifestyle. Although the scenario may be hard to recover from, it can still be adjusted to create a positive mindset. Unfortunate experiences are bound to occur while being a teen and it creates a moral that will be usable in the near future. Thus, negative experiences can result in a positive change. Through a variety of difficult events, people change to improve their personalities by learning from their mistakes. Personalities convert over time via harsh …show more content…
Not only that, but a personality represents one’s identity. For instance, as written in the book, The First Stone by Don Aker, the dominant character by the name of Reef faces multiple obstacles that blocks his path from becoming a successful teenager. “He gripped the rock seeking its strength, and chose a target...Then something hit her windshield and the whole world exploded,” (Aker 35). As stated, Reef had thrown a rock that lead through a chain of events. The rock hits the windshield of a car and becomes the cause of an accident that involving several lethal injuries. From that point onwards, Reef’s life changes forever. He ends up in the courtroom while the judge gives him a devastating sentence that ends with “And believe me, young man, you will gain insight. You will feel remorse. …show more content…
Once negativity spreads, it produces a positive outcome. Although it may chew up time, positivity will definitely occur. In the novel a particular novel called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon introduces the reader to the protagonist, Christopher Swindon. He was a young boy who struggled with family challenges. The murder of Wellington, a dog who was close to Christopher, commenced the mishaps that began to ensue. As Christopher starts to investigate the murder, he begins to find clues of the truth behind his father’s lies. The book states that “And Mother had never lived in London. Mother had always lived with us. And Mother had never written a letter to me before,” (Haddon 98). At this point, Christopher’s father found out he had read the letters his mother had sent Christopher subsequently to the affair. His dad explains, “We all make mistakes sometimes, Christopher. You, me, your mum, everyone. And sometimes they’re really big mistakes. We’re only human.” (Haddon 122). The upshot of the text was that Christopher was reunited with his mother and the mystery of the murderer was resolved. All around the world, teens are involved in incidents to do with difficulties in the family. The consequences construct a negative impact. As time goes on, the negativity refines the teen mindset and assembles a
Three sources, in particular, Anne Frank, Dear Miss Breed, and a life story that is very heartwarming. They show how being positive is the best way to handle a conflict, however a negative conflict will get you nowhere. To start off, Anne Frank stayed optimistic while she and her family were hiding away from the Nazi Army. She writes in her diary, Kitty, about her experience in hiding. On Saturday, July 11, she writes,”Father, Mother, and Margot still can’t get used to the chiming of the Westertoren clock, which tells us the time every quarter of an hour.
In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the character Mr Boone is the most influential character to Christopher because he is deceitful and considerate which influences Christopher in a in wrong way by leading him to running away due to his father's actions.
The debate of nature vs. nurture still continues today in the world of psychology. The effects of an individual’s genetics and the effects of their environment on their personality and actions is an age old debate that is still inconclusive. However, it is evident that both sides of the argument carry some form of the truth. It can be contended that the major characteristics of an individual are formed by their environment, more specifically, their past experiences. An individual’s past moulds and shapes their identity, if they do not make an effort to move on from it. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows that clinging on to the past prevents individuals from fully experiencing the present, eventually leading to resentment, dissatisfaction, and misjudgements.
Have you ever felt misunderstood? Have you ever felt isolated from the people around you? Have you ever wanted everyone to just leave you alone? In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, written by Mark Haddon, Christopher, the novel’s main protagonist, struggles with trying to relate to other people, has a hard time understanding why people question the way he acts, constantly feels isolated from the people around him, and dreams of being the only human being left on the planet. Christopher has a condition, an unstated form of autism that makes him think and speak differently then all the other characters in the book. What starts as a mystery novel quickly turns into a heart-wrenching story about Christopher’s desire to be understood and to have people that he can trust in his life, who also love him unconditionally. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime shows the reader that even though sometimes our minds work in ways that others cannot relate to, we all want to be understood, even by those who question us when we say what we say and think what we think.
Carol S. Dweck, a social psychologist and a writer, explores that people who gain benefits from learning from their mistakes are more likely to develop to maturity. A mistake is a step toward success and if one makes changes and prevents his errors from happening he is a step closer to his success and able to grow up to his mature self. Agreeing with Dweck, by learning from mistakes people are taught through experiences and it helps to deeply imbed the knowledge into them. Therefore, People begin to aware their faults and start off to change themselves into mature person to be able to fit in the adult society. Adulthood is the experience every living person has to encounter. Growing up to maturity means having
Is there typical family drama, a hateful relationship, and trust given back? The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time expresses all of the points. Typical family drama can be described as parents fighting. A hateful relationship describes the relationship Ed begins to have with Christopher. Ed Boone tries to gain his son’s trust back.
In Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, a Marxist critic would be interested in the socioeconomic power that Christopher lacks in comparison to the people he encounters on the train and at the train station. This results in him being oppressed by those encounters.
Eric Erickson (1902-1994) was a psychoanalytical theorist who refined the study of personality development across the life stages (School of Arts, Development and Health Education, Massey University, 2012). His psychosocial theory (Newman & Newman, 2007) extended on the work of his mentor, and originating theorist; Sigmund Freud (Berk, 2012). Erickson’s theory divulged that individuals confront both negative and positive social pressures, at each life stage. How they deal with such experiences, and the learning, or lack of, acquired from them, determines how they cope and develop throughout their remaining life stages (Newman & Newman, 2007). Negative experiences not properly managed at any stage, adversely affect individual growth.
Within psychology adolescence is described as a period of transition from childhood to adulthood. It is a period between year twelve and late teens, when the physical growth is complete, the person becomes sexually mature and establishes identity (Nolen-Hoeksema, Friedricson, Loftus & Wagenaar, 2009). During this period of development, the individual has to face several risk factors, which are considered as a hazard on normal psychological development of an individual (Colman, 2009). This means, that experiencing them is associated with vulnerability, developing mental health problems and problematic behaviors such as for instance greater risk taking, school related deviance and school failure, teen pregnancy, substance misuse, aggression, violence or vandalism or in other words delinquency and antisocial behavior (Perkins & Borden, 2003). Therefore risk factors have a potential not just endanger the present developmental period, but also jeopardize the future biological and psychological development (Beam, Gill-Rivas, Greenberger & Chen, 2002; Perkins & Borden, 2003). However, not all young individual will respond to risk factors by developing negative outcomes. Some develop resilience and adapt to changes and stressors (Crawford, 2006; Perkins & Borden, 2003). Furthermore it has been suggested, that risk factors are desirable for developing this kind of positive outcome (Fergus & Zimmerman, 2005). According to Fonagy et. al. (1994) (cited in Crawford, 2006) resilience can be defined as normal development under difficult conditions. It leads to overcoming and coping with the negative effects of exposure to risk factors (Fergus & Zimmerman, 2005). To maintain this, protective factors need to be put in place (Fergus & Zimmerman, 2...
Teenagers are commonly known for making plenty of mistakes, but those mistakes are meant to be learnt from so you can use those situations in the future to guide yourself in the right direction. In the following books Mirror Game, Skud and Silent Summer of Kyle Mcginley it will be demonstrated how negative experiences can lead to a positive change in a teens life.
Erik Erickson’s eight stages of psychosocial development is argumentatively one of the best theories to explain how human beings should healthily develop from infancy to late adulthood. Every stage of the theory must be successfully completed for optimal human personality growth. Stages that are not successful completed may result in reoccurring problems throughout one’s lifespan. Every stage is broken down by a psychosocial crisis, each with a conflicting matter that must be resolved. If the person fails to resolve this conflict, they will carry the negative trait into every remaining stage of life. Furthermore, if the person successfully resolves the conflict, they will carry the positive trait into every remaining
In The curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time, Ed Boone is Christopher John Francis Boone’s father. He is a man who cares for Christopher and he knew what bothered him and what he liked Christopher suffers from a psychological disorder known as Asperger’s syndrome which makes him stand out from others and is hard for him to fit in. Christophers father hides the fact that he killed Wellington and also hides the location of his mother by faking her death because he thinks there’s no need to be honest with Christopher at an early age. Ed takes into consideration Christopher’s bond and relationships with animals and pets.
Occam’s razor states, “No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary (Haddon 90).” In “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” Mark Haddon emphasizes Christopher’s dislike of fiction, lies and illogical situations. The novel is about Christopher John Francis Boone, a teenage boy with autism. After Chris found his neighbor's dog to be dead, he decided to further investigate the mysterious murder to make sense of the situation. Although Chris is determined to find out what happened, he faces many obstacles including his autism, reality and other individuals. Having autism is certainly a struggle for Chris at times, but because it makes him a very logical, honest person, Christopher is protected from highly emotional realities that occur throughout the book.
There are many psychological factors that can influence you throughout your life. Your genetics, environment, parents, peers, and society have influenced you every day since you were born. Each person is made an individual due to the different experiences in life. Your daily life constantly bombards you with stimulus that shapes you and your personality. In this paper, I will be discussing what psychological influences have affected me. This will include my childhood and how it made effects me today, the psychological personalities I currently have, and what changes I’d like to make for the future.
Changing the negatives into positives can be made by changing their perspective, practice self-care, and to consider the consequences of negativity. There are many possible ways to help make this change, but to keep in mind, doing the little things is what counts the most. Doing something as simple as reading a positive quote every morning before leaving for school or work can turn the day around drastically. With changing the outlook of things, come lessons that can be learned early on in life rather than figuring the lesson out itself. Also, once one sees life the way the finally want to see it, with a positive mindset, they can become the person they have wanted to