The Giver Peer Pressure

Psychology and Dystopian Text Set Peer pressure affects others because if you don’t follow what people are doing or saying to do, they are pressuring you to be like them, and not doing what you think is right. Roles of power influence behavior because if you want to be high in power, you need to follow people standards. In the Giver there is a dystopian community and it make rules and regulations of how to act and be like everyone in that community, for there can't be no mistakes in the community. In the article, “Why Do People Follow the Crowd,” people who saw another person turned around in the elevator and they were not looking the right way, they didn’t ask why they just turned around like the others, for they won’t feel out
I think roles of power influences how people behave because people that have high power are very popular and you have to keep up with those standards and also be popular. In the article, Why Do People Follow the Crowd, it says, “Eventually, people who were total strangers at the beginning of the evening were passing fruit back and forth, mouth to mouth.” This quote means that since everyone was doing it, they followed the role that everyone else was following. In the article, The Stanford Prison Experiment, it says, “The prisoners were dependent on the guards for everything, so they tried to find ways to please the guards, such as telling on fellow prisoners.” This quote means, the prisoners were now in their roles and behaving like prisoners would act. In the novel the Giver it says, “But Jonas remembered the rules. No medication for anything related to his training.” This quote means, The role, the Giver said while Jonas is training to become the Receiver of Memory he can't have medication, that made him feel pain. In the novel the Giver it says, “Jonas. You of all people. Precise of language,please.” This quote means,The community has to follow the role of how people have to use precise language, and that how people act and