What Makes a Person Who They Are? A young man grows up like any other child in his neighborhood. He plays his video games, goes outside to play with his friends, and plays sports. The only difference that sets him apart from his friends is the fact the he is graduating at the age of thirteen. How did he become so smart? Or why are there certain people who are smarter than others? This question’s pertaining to a person’s personality or characteristics cannot be explained. Becoming a serial killer, being an over-achiever, or being an alcoholic is being debated constantly between nature and nurture. Some argue that it is a person’s genetics that controls how a person turns out, while others argue that it is a person’s environment that makes
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Like Tom, Twain does not argue that either nature or nurture played a role in Chambers persona. However, he does give proof that nurturing made Chambers the man he became. Chambers who grew up as a slave did not receive “all the petting” and “all the delicacies…(19).” Chambers had to learn to be submissive and passive to Tom’s cruelty. Tom became Chamber master. According to Stephanie Mojica, “ environmental factors have different levels of impact on human development… for example… parental ideals, community standards or ethnic views (How Do Nature and Nurture Influence Human Development).” With the beliefs that whites had on slaves, Chambers learned to be “meek and Docile (19).” Chambers also learned to be a good worker “…and a good fighter because Tom furnished him plenty of practice…(20).” The nurturing that Chambers had, educated him the mannerisms of a salve. Therefore, when he discovered his true identity, he still “could not endure the terrors of the white man’s parlor, and felt at home and at peace nowhere but in the kitchen (139).” According to the book review “Pudd'nhead Wilson And Those Extraordinary Twins” by Nancy Pearl, “Chambers," who is really Tom, is now rich and free, but having been raised as a slave no longer fits anywhere in society (Pearl).” What Chambers had been taught as an adolescent all the way until he finds out who he is outweighs his true identity or inherited characteristics. Chambers is a man of a slave mentally and nothing but time could alter
Like Tom, Twain does not argue that either nature or nurture played a role in Chambers persona. However, he does give proof that nurturing made Chambers the man he became. Chambers who grew up as a slave did not receive “all the petting” and “all the delicacies…(19).” Chambers had to learn to be submissive and passive to Tom’s cruelty. Tom became Chamber master. According to Stephanie Mojica, “ environmental factors have different levels of impact on human development… for example… parental ideals, community standards or ethnic views (How Do Nature and Nurture Influence Human Development).” With the beliefs that whites had on slaves, Chambers learned to be “meek and Docile (19).” Chambers also learned to be a good worker “…and a good fighter because Tom furnished him plenty of practice…(20).” The nurturing that Chambers had, educated him the mannerisms of a salve. Therefore, when he discovered his true identity, he still “could not endure the terrors of the white man’s parlor, and felt at home and at peace nowhere but in the kitchen (139).” According to the book review “Pudd'nhead Wilson And Those Extraordinary Twins” by Nancy Pearl, “Chambers," who is really Tom, is now rich and free, but having been raised as a slave no longer fits anywhere in society (Pearl).” What Chambers had been taught as an adolescent all the way until he finds out who he is outweighs his true identity or inherited characteristics. Chambers is a man of a slave mentally and nothing but time could alter