(“geeks”) are a close-knit bunch, affirming one another in their group culture, but their worth as persons comes under the attack of the more physical crowd (“jocks”), and vice versa. There is also the artsy crowd, the social crowd, the rebel crowd, the drug crowd and so forth. Within each group, peer pressure enforces conformity and castigates difference. Those too deeply touched by the jeers of others may change their whole images to secure approval rather than ridicule. Additionally, those readers
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