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The stories, “Fan Club” and “A Kind of Murder”, are both connected in their theme. In the story “Fan Club” Laura dreads going to school because of the popular people there who bully her. At her school there is a girl named Rachel whos is even less popular than Laura. When Laura gets to class they are presenting and Rachel’s presentation goes horribly wrong. All the popular people begin to pass out pins that say “Hortensky Fan Club” to mock Rachel. When Laura is offered one she takes so she can fit in. In a “Kind of Murder” a former student of a military school recalls a new teacher, who is small and appears to be deaf, joining his school. He isn’t a good fit there because he cannot gain respect from his students due to his impairment. After …show more content…
In the story, “Fan Club” Rachel is being bullied by the other children because she is very different to everyone else. Laura decides to join in on this bullying because she was being influenced by her classmate. In the story, “A Kind of Murder”, the student who stood up for him decided not to anymore because his classmates were calling him a, “goody, goody.” They were both influenced by their peers into doing the morally wrong thing. Something that was different in the way that peer pressure was involved in the stories is how the characters got pressured into doing the wrong thing. In “Fan Club” Laura was influenced by the popular girl in school when she was offered the badge. In “A Kind of Murder” the student was pressured by his supposed friend when he teased him for standing up for the teacher. Something that was very similar in the way the theme is reflected in the story is why the main characters gave into peer pressure. The reason for Laura giving into peer pressure was that she wanted to fit in for a change and not be the one who was being targeted. The reason why the student in “A Kind of Murder” gave into the peer pressure was that he, like Laura, wanted to fit in with his ‘friends’. I believe that both of the author’s purpose for their stories was to show that what is popular is not always the right thing to
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