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I am still reading the book Kasher in the Rye by Moshe Kasher.  He is about twelve years old at this point is has no friends.  He is looking for social acceptance since he is currently an outcast.  He turns to smoking and stealing cigarettes from the local food mart.  He then starts hanging out with older boys who also smoke cigarettes.  They then start hazing him and making him do horrible things in order to gain their acceptance.  "Every P.A.G. initiation ritual I went through was somehow deemed insufficient afterward and then they'd ask me to perform some other pain ritual or sexual humiliation in order to be acepted in."  (Kasher 59)  This can be related to alot of people who go into college wanting to be accepted.  Someone joins a fraternitiy because they want to be accepted by people but then they have to do painful and humiliating things to themselves.  Do you really want to be accepted by people who justt want to see you get hurt? Also Moshe smokes weed for the first time.  "I smoked and smoked and every hit chipped away another part of my life...puff puff... gone were my worries."  (Kasher 62)  People think that smoking weed will just make all of your troubles go away.  People use marijuana as an escape from reality, but not all of the long term effects of weed are known.  I find that this book is very interesting.  Even though I don't have a hard a troublesome life like Moshe does, there are some parts of this book that I can relate to.