When you were younger, did your parents and teachers always tell you that it was good to be different? Not a lot of people realize it, but as you get older there’s more and more pressure to conform everywhere in everything. Being different is no longer encouraged, but ridiculed. I myself have experienced this strange phenomenon known as “peer pressure.” In the book, Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character Melinda also faces the terrifying, threatening peer pressure that happens in everyday high school life. The author shows how dangerous peer pressure can be and how damaging it is to
