Peer Pressure

A lot times, people do things that they don’t want to because of the peer pressure

they face. And peer pressure can also cause internal conflict for that person. He or she

has to decide to do what their friends said or do what that person really think is the right

thing to do. In the short story “The New Kid” by Murray Heyer and in both articles

“Peer Pressure Causes Teenagers to Smoke” by Steven V. Roberts and “Kids and guns”

by Derrick Shepard, the authors show how “peer pressure create internal conflicts”.

In the story Marty was a kids that always got left out and make fun of. His friends

don’t like to play with him because he is bad at everything's. One day he saw his friends

playing baseball and he want to play too by the said that there’s enough people so he can’t

play. No matter how many times he ask they wouldn’t let him play. So he walk out the

field sadly. Then he sat down outside of the field and...