Peer Pressure Influence Teenagers In Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson

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Peer pressure influence teenagers by having sex drinking and smoking. And even forcing someone to do something they do not want to do. I think Laurie Halse Anderson the author of “Speak” is saying about peer pressure is that everyone makes mistakes.So dont judge others by there past and neither bullying them or even calling poeple names or talking behind the persons back .Beacuse you dont know what that person has gone through. How is Melinda Sordino influenced by peer pressure Melinda Sordino was peer pressured when she was at a party with her friends and was drinnking and meet a guy that she fell in love with and then that guy raped her. (Halse). How have you experienced peer pressure I experienced peer pressure when my friends …show more content…
And even forcing someone to do something they do not want to do. I think Laurie Halse Anderson the author of “Speak” is saying about peer pressure is that everyone makes mistakes.So dont judge others by there past and neither bullying them or even calling poeple names or talking behind the persons back .Beacuse you dont know what that person has gone …show more content…
(Halse). How have you experienced peer pressure I experienced peer pressure when my friends told me to bich school but i did not want to. When it comes to peer pressure, what experience(s) do you and Melinda have in common one thing that me and melinda have in common is that when we get mad or sad we like to draw same as melinda when she would be sad or mad she would go to the janitor”s closet and draw trees. (Halse). How did Melinda handle the pressure. How melinda handled the preer prepressure was that she would not cry in public were people could see her . Instead she would go in the janitor’s closet and cry were nobody would see her and know she was there it was like here hiding place and when she gets home after school she would start crying in her room.And she would draw trees to get her mind of the bad things in her life.That is how she would handle the pressure by crying. (Halse). What could she have done differently I think what melinda should have done differently is talk to her friends what really happend that day. That it wasn’t her attention to call the cops that day of the party. Because she did it for a reason she was raped she was confused and hurt inside her because she got raped. (Halse). How did\do

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