Rebel Without A Cause: Negative Effects Of Peer Pressure

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Imagine someone being pushed into a situation that he doesn’t want to be involved with socially. Peer pressure is the name term of what make someone do what ones friends want, to make one “cool” or socially accepted by everyone else. This action though one into a person one doesn’t. In “Rebel without a cause,” some of the characters are pushed into situations in which they do not want to be. As one can see, the film does an excellent job of exploring peer pressure and its negative effects. During the movie when Buzz and Jim were pressured into playing chicken, buzz tells Jim “I like you”. Then Jim asks “why do we have to do this”. Buzz replies with “you have to do something”. The conversation between these two characters shows the audience that they were stuck in a loop of pressure. Many things in this world make people get pressured by their peers around them. One example is drugs, when friends first do them and want you to be cool and accepted by them, they will try and force you to something they want. These days’ young people are being more involved with peer pressure. Today’s youth has been peer pressured to do many things, drugs being one of them. The peer pressure to young people is way easier to succeed then with older people because young people are always with their friends, wanting to be …show more content…

Even if age wasn’t a factor it would be very different because in today’s society strangers are something kids don’t like to be around, but if an adult is at a party and everyone around them, that you don’t know, to do the drugs they will do it to make themselves seem cool. The discovery lead to new insight, it showed that the young are very easy to succeed in getting them to do what you want. I believe that in the future our future youth will become immune to peer pressure and not fall under the power of peer

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