Peers or friend?

"Kill, kill, kill, kill..." They were shouting while Alon was standing in front of bleeding Jessy. His friends, peers, even his brother was standing and shouting. Alon faced a big problem. On the one hand, if he hits him even once more it could kill him. However, all of his friends, peers and brothers are shouting to kill him. He is afraid to make the wrong decision. This situation is an extreme example for peer pressure.

Peer pressure is varied : it can be from your friend, and even from your family. In this situation the "victim" is faced with a big problem, which has two or even more solutions. In addition, there is even worse peer pressure when the poor kid is faced with a problematic dilemma, in which it doesn’t matter what he chooses ,he still loses something.

However, peer pressure can be positive. For example, if someone doesn’t want to go to tell the girl that he likes her, then the friends can get involved. They can affect his decisions. If his friends want to help him they will try to influence him to tell the girl and finally, maybe, he will tell her. However, this kind of peer pressure is not common at all and may be used for bad causes.

Finally, I can say that peer pressure is a common thing and can affect people’s lives dramatically. In addition, it is something that can't be stopped, so we need to learn how to handle it in the right way.

Good work.

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Daphna.