How does Henry IV, Part 1 help answer my question? I would love to tell you!

This play is difficult to connect to my question, but here goes! The youngest character in this play is Hal, and so the answer to my question is directed toward him. Falstaff mostly influences Hal with thoughts of thievery, lies, and enjoyment of life. As a descendant of the royal line--the royal line by name, not blood-- he should be living up to his name. The influences in Hal's allow him to associate with the commoners, to build relationships with people that are not of his status. As a young adult, Hal is very open to accepting their ways of life, even though he may not agree with them. To answer my question, Hal falls into the category of the more outgoing youngsters because Falstaff's influence has encouraged him to develop a relationship with the commoners that many of the royalty could only dare to do. He also encourages him (indirectly) to committ to life in a more spontaneous manner.

Possibly connecting back to Hal's childhood, perhaps the reason he had recently turned to Falstaff was because his own father had not encouraged a life of enjoyment. Hal still recognizes that Falstaff's life is not the way to live, but he still desires this variation of perspective that Henry was not able to provide.

How does Oedipus relate to my BIG Question you ask? Well, I will tell you...

The connection I tried to make between Oedipus and my question is at the ending of the play, when Oedipus reveals his truth to his children/siblings. Here, the children I'm assuming had chose to open up to his character believing that he was their father and nothing else. But it is heartbreaking and shocking for them to discover that Oedipus is their brother along with their father. For this reason, I'm concluding that children who fear forming a new relationship fear it because it may be either short-lived or full of deception--in other words the person who they befriend may trick them somehow. So they refrain from forming new relationships in the first place.

My Big AP Question!

My question for this year is: Why are some young children unwilling to open up to their environment while others rush head first into creating new relationships?
I first became interested in this question when I visited my mom's work at the beginning of the year. She is a teacher and was having an open house at her school for the new kids to come in and meet their teachers. I noticed that lots of kids were shy, yet others were extremely friendly and outgoing. When a mom asked her son to say hi to his new teacher, he immediately jumped into his mom's arms crying "Mom! I'm scared!" I wonder about what types of family lifestyles or influences make some children naturally more friendly than others.