Teenage And Peer Pressure By Marjane Satrapi s Memoire,...

Teenage and Peer Pressure Peer pressure is difficult to withstand during teenage years especially when on campus far away from parents or guardians. In Marjane Satrapi’s memoire, Persepolis, the chapter titled â€Å"Croissant†, does not suit the story in the chapter in my opinion because, most of the events that happened in the chapter have nothing to do with croissant. The story was about a young girl named Marji who was sent abroad by her parents during her early teenage years to study because there was a war in her country, and the lifestyle she led when she went to the school. Marji behaved like most teenager who cannot withstand peer pressure. She was naà ¯ve, unfocused, trusting and liked politics, so Teenage and Peer Pressure would have been a better title for the chapter. First, being naà ¯ve can let somebody take advantage someone by asking the person to run errands that are against the law or unethical. Marji had a boyfriend on campus called Markus who was a drug user. Marji was used by her boyfriend to buy drugs for himself and his friends on campus. Marji and Markus both knew dealing in drugs was a crime that can land someone in jail or to be expel from school but, he sent Marji over and over to buy the drugs until she became an addict because she was naà ¯ve. Also, she knew that the place where the drugs were being sold was dangerous for a teenager like her to go because most of females who goes to such places to buy drugs are sexually assaulted in such places,