Essay On Environment Restrictions

Another element of that can alter people over a lifetime are an environments restrictions. The restrictions in an environment may lead to change and maturity. Some restrictions an environment has are lack of finance, acceptance, and opportunities which can bring personal maturation and change. An environment that has a restricted finance can lead to unfufillment and the ideal that money is happiness. For Sandors family, once they had immigrated to Canada they could only afford to live in the North End and were in a constant state of poverty and could only afford “Noodles and rummage –sales” (Marlyn 102). Sandor as a young teen learned through society’s treatment of the upper-class, he noted how “The only people who count are the English. Their

Because of his unaccepting environment, Sandor becomes distant physically and emotionally from all family and friends. Another restriction and environment can have is the lack of opportunities. The absence of opportunities in an environment because of social economic status can hinder possibilities to grow and succeed. Being raised in the North End and struggling to live every day, Sandor knows the struggle of no opportunities. His adolescence was basically a giant lack of opportunities; he had a lack of friendships and financial opportunities, all because of him being impoverish and a Hungarian immigrant. Even as an adult his past of being a poor Hungarian immigrant as a young boy hinders his opportunities to succeed in business. Alex talks to Mr. Atkinson in the prospect of getting a job in his bank firm, however, with his background of living on Henry Avenue and his immigration to Canada from Hungry, he his judged and denied any possibility of

Memories attached to an environment can provoke personal development. Memories that are nostalgic, painful and motivational can still shape human’s even years later. Nostalgic memories attached to an environment can lead to a feeling of incompleteness. For Sandor, his nostalgia for the acceptance and friendship he felt as a young man with the gang, his Onkel Janos and Eric and his Mom stays with him for his whole life. The only points he feels truly at home are when he was with his gang, there was no judgement or mocking between one another “… suddenly he felt a lump in his throat… he loved them… he had reached home” (Marlyn 46). Even as an adult the feelings of fondness and respect from the past are dearly missed by the older Sandor, in his nostalgia and vulnerability thinks “he felt the sudden desire to throw himself on his knees before her [Sandor’s mother] and bury his head in her lap (Marlyn 217). Similarly, like in the “Grandfather” the protagonist is full of nostalgic feelings of his time of just immigrating and everything before his imprisonment leaving him to feel stolen from saying how “He did not celebrate his homecoming… the harvest, three quarters done reminded him too often of wasted time…” (Zieroth 75). Alex is able to maintain his small happiness and feel happy with himself and his progress in work, but he doesn’t have any true friends to