Main Street, Cascade, Idaho, 1940's

Main Street, Cascade, Idaho, 1940's

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Peer Pressure

The issue presented in Chris Crutcher and the Mild Frontier that i chose to research is peer pressure. In this case its more like brother pressure, but i don't think thats a real thing. I chose this issue because to me it seemed like the most dominant issue was his brother, John, pressuring him into doing things. Things including: peeing in the heater grate, letting John shoot him in the head with a BB gun, and doing many other embarrassing, trouble-making type things. After researching peer pressure i found that peer pressure is the main cause of most the mistakes people make. Drinking, doing drugs and smoking are some of the most terrible things that can be caused by peer pressure. There are many, many, many other things that are extremely terrible that peer pressure is the cause of. Another is teen pregnancy which has grown tremendously over the past, maybe, 10 years? It is surprising what unimaginably dishusting and terrible things can come from peer pressure. Another amazing thing is the percent of the teenage population that is effected by peer pressure. ITS NEARLY ALL OF US! One study i found reported that about 80 percent of high school student fall into the act of doing what their peers tell them to when that or those certain peers are committing peer pressure.

Citation
Crutcher, Chris. King of the Mild Frontier. HarperCollins Children's Books, 2004

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