Part one of term paper
Peer Pressure in "The Osage Orange Tree" "The Osage Orange Tree" by William Stafford tells a story of how peer pressure kept 2 people apart who wanted to like each other. The narrator of the story liked one of his classmates but was afraid to show that he liked her. He didn't have the maturity at the beginning of the story to go against pee ...

Part two of term paper
... and lopsided" (374). Her house had no running water. "There was a grayish white place on the ground where the dishwater had been thrown out" (374). Probably none of the students were wealthy in the story, but Evangeline was poorer than most of the Students. Peer pressue dictated that Evangeline should be avoided. She was avoided by the others because she was different. "She was standing near the corner looking everywhere but at the crowd" (369). The narrator himself said, "I might talk t ...