J'ai retrouvé un devoir d'anglais de l'an dernier plein de p'tites blagues... je sais que tout le monde n'est pas sensible aux charmes de cet aspect de la scolarité, mais je voulais en faire profiter aux autres (s'il y en a), en VO bien sûr sinon y a des trucs qui claquent moins...
Are childhood experiences the only determining factors in what a person will be as an adult ? Excellent question I am going to answer hapilly. In this goal, I’m going to use arguments, exemples and relative pronoums.
Well so then, here are some arguments... so... arguments, yes... ok... well... let’s see... so, arguments.
Well, actually, to begin with, personality take seed in kid’s spirit, which aren’t, indeed, fully achieved. When there’s life, there’s hope, feelings and what we can call a person, a human-being, and not only a puzzle of meat. In the begining of life, so, childhood, soul (I don’t believe in soul but using this word I needn’t repeat “spirit”) is as white and empty as this piece of paper before I get inspired. So the first experiences get imprimed better, deeper than they will. As a child, we don’t have elements of comparaison to refer to, and first evenements become this elements. So, on this way, we can see childhood experiences are determining factors in what a person will be as an adult.
In psychanalyse, doctors look for information in their clients’ past to find causes which have effets years later, even tromatizms.
Some deep fears also come from the begining of existence, such as people afraid of darkness, snakes or spiders.
If I had been in a french dissertation, I would have talk about Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who have been tromatized by the “comb accident”. No doubt you know this terrible story, but it cost nothing and maybe it is worth to repeat it : when he was still a little boy, the futur famous author was alone in a room, studying (‘cause he was a good boy), and in this room was a comb. When someone later came in, by jove ! the comb was broken ! All the cludes were against poor little Jean-Jacques, and he got the punition of his life, which, according to him, he didn’t deserve. Then, tromatized, he later wrote Les Confessions, So childhood experiences are not only determining for one person, but sometimes they could change a society’s destiny, as we see all students, or at least all students from the 631st class of the Lycee Grandmont have read Les Confessions. Maybe some, who could have became author, have been disgusted forever by literrature... how fascinating...
I, personally, have been tromatized by teacher in my young age, whose my spirital fitness and gentle humour didn’t seem very funny... Since then, I hate strict hierarchy and intolerant people.
But if children experiences are determining factors in what a person will be as an adult, they are not, as tne question could let believe, the only factors. Actually, it depends of what we call “experiences”. Anedoct we are only witness, or even we just read can be experiences and can change opinion or personality. And actual personality should be build on all experiences, not only ones from childhood. Old mens don’t have the same reaction than little boys. A personality is the mirror of a whole life (beautiful , isn’t it ?).
But, as I have already said, children’s spirit is free from other considerations. And, after reflexions, I think that opinion can change quite easily, but deep personality, hardlier. I take here for example my little body : knowing perfectly I have a too hight opinion of myself, I can’t change my mood, and I still think, or better to say I still know I’m the best, because it came for an old and forgotten fact...(maybe the truth ?)
But, after other reflexions (incredible how I have to wonder for an english test !), I’m not the most competent to talk about this : I just leave childhood, and I’m lost in the hostil adult world... seriously, logically, my personality must come from my childhood experiences, or we have to believe in soul and reincarnation...
To conclude, I would say that this must be the last english test you give us, so let’s finish the year in a good mood ! I know, on the contrary of my ancient teachers, you are open-minded
(hop, well done, Pierre !) , and, if you gave me the mark I deserve, I’ll be tromatized, and later, maybe in ten years, I will go on the street and kill fifteen people. Think about it. You, your chidrens could be one from this fifteen people. Think about it.