There are many occasions in which the friends we choose drag you down to make bad decisions. In these occasions people are peer pressured to do things that they do not want to do but they do it because they have the need to fit in. In The Body, Gordie Lachance goes through a similar situation with his friends Chris Chambers, Vern Tessio, and Teddy Duchamp. Out of the four boys, Gordie is the one with the most potential. Chris had once told Gordie that friends drag you down, that Gordie should take his own path and make friends that are like him. Although Gordie refuses to believe that friends drag you down, I believe that Gordie would have been dragged down if he stayed with Vern and Teddy. In the story there has been plenty of times in which
