Chapter 5 has a prevailing theme regarding influences, or more specifically, peer pressure. In this chapter, Clay Clinton pressured his best friend Percival Leary, into performing a socially unacceptable act. He managed to convince Leary to set a bag of flaming “dog dirt” on someone’s porch. Unfortunately for Leary, no one came to stomp the bag out and it resulted in an inferno that engulfed the house. This chapter shows how important it can be to resist peer pressure in order to keep out of trouble. It can also relate to every reader, including myself, because everyone has had to make the decision whether to cave to the pressure or to resist and every one can take the lesson that Leary learned away from this chapter.
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