Guava's Short Story 'The Half-Husky'

A common misconception of humans is that we are born good or evil. However, a much more significant factor other than genes is nurture. Who molded you into who you are today? Was it your parents and your friends? In the short story “The Half-Husky”, by Margaret Laurence Vanessa is raised in a very caring environment and she turned out to be a very caring human being, while Harvey was raised by an aunt who did not even want him, this resulted in him becoming a “bad egg”. In the novels of the “Grisha trilogy” by Leigh Bardugo, Alina is raised as an orphan and is one of the most powerful Grisha in all of Ravka who is given an opportunity to become an unethical ruler, however due to her background she decided to use her abilities for the well being of her country, while the Darkling who is also immensely powerful however, he is extremely power hungry and his motive is to rule over all of Ravka. Adolf Hitler was not the genocidist who we see him as today, as a child he was raised very strictly by his parents and his hatred towards Jewish people came from a Jewish professor who rejected his artwork. …show more content…
If she sided with the Darkling she knew that she would be killing many innocent people just to strengthen her rule. She did not want this, being raised in an orphanage she was able to understand how valuable a life is. The Darkling however, was extremely pampered as a child and sees himself as superior to all others. Neither of these people were born good or evil, but it was the people surrounding them and the environment they lived in that manipulated how they turned out. If Alina's parents hadn’t passed away then Alina could have turned out to be a completely different