In all three stories the theme is

Peer pressure affect one’s decisions

“The Fan Club” by Rona Maynard

1. Rachel in the story is getting talked bad about and her friend Laura doesn’t defend her and instead join the crowd.

2. Laura finds out that the popular kids are not plotting things on her when she see that they are all are laughing at Rachel so she feel that she shouldn’t do anything to stop them and that would stop them from every talking about her later on.

“Like Mexicans: by Gary Soto

1. Gary goes outside his family tradition about not marrying an okie after being pressured by family to do marry an okie

2. Gary family and friends pressure him on not dating anyone that is not an okie so he really don’t want to disappoint his family so he try to find people that they would be happy with.

“Choices” by Nikki Giovanni

1. She talks about doing what she don’t what to because of her decisions and she could cry about it

2. Nikki talks about that she has to do things she don’t want to do because everyone else has to so it too.

Explain how example fit theme

This fits my theme because for every example

In school different genres are read and studied. This year we studied fiction, non fiction, and poetry. Throughout these stories, the author creates a theme which tells us about life in general. In the unit “The Right Choice”, the theme dealt with choices the characters made. Throughout the three genres, the overall theme is peer pressure affects one’s decisions.

The theme “peer pressure affects one’s decisions” is represented in the fictional story, “The Fan Club” by Rona Maynard. One example for this theme is when Rachel was talked badly about, and her “so called” friend Laura doesn’t defend her. Instead Laura joins the crowd in making fun of Racheal. Laura’s actions here prove that peer pressure affects ones decision because she worried about how she would have gotten treated if she wouldn’t have helped the popular crowd laugh at her friend Rachel. Laura didn’t want to feel like an outsider, so she joined in the laughter against Racheal. Another example that peer pressure affects one’s decisions is when Laura finds out that the popular kids are not plotting something against her. She sees that they are all laughing at Rachel so she feels that she shouldn’t do anything to stop them from talking about Rachel. The pressure probably comes from not wanting to get laughed at herself later on. Laura also proved the theme because she didn’t want to get talked about herself, so she decided to tried to fit in with the other children and not stop the laughter.