Kaitlyn Chow

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The Story Behind It

Continued from #5

         I wrote this piece out of the top of my head. It was my best idea, and I know that peer pressure drinking goes occurs often. So I wanted to give the reader an actual scenario where it happened, I wanted the reader to feel like they were there,watching it with their own eyes. Peer pressure drinking is hard, because a lot of people don’t want to drink, but with an audience in front of you, you also don’t want to chicken out. It’s a very big social issue around the world, and is also something that needs to be stopped.

         I choose the main character, Doug to be alone so that it would be four people against one. So that Doug actually felt pressured to drink. I also wrote the thoughts that were going through his head when Katrina thrusts the bottle into his hand. I wanted the reader to understand what people face when they have the bottle and everyone is looking at you, expecting you to drink it. I also made the character seem strong, but inside, he was very vulnerable. I did this to show that what he was saying was so different from what he was actually feeling. Someone may act like something isn’t a big deal but inside they really want to disappear.