In “Cell One” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adachie, the speaker’s house is robbed by her neighbor and her brother, Nnamabia, which was the start of his slippery slope with peer pressure. While the speaker and Nnamabia’s school had been condemning joining cults, Nnamabia he had done the opposite and committed a crime that put him in a corrupt jail system. In jail, Nnamabia risked his life to save a defenseless and innocent man from suffering. In this story, the author uses Nnamabia’s internal conflict with wanting to follow the crowd and his sister’s point of view to show that maturity comes through standing up to the crowd. This story presents Nnamabia, a young man trying to find his way while dealing with peer pressure. He wants to be like the rest…show more content… The speaker presents that he’s easily persuaded, by saying “He had done it, too, because other sons of professors were doing it” (264). He was looking for approval among the other professors’ sons and wanted that sense of inclusion among them. Their school had been infested with fraternities, or cults, that would commit crimes, and the school had said to “’say no to cults,’” but in Nnamabia’s mind, the police weren’t ready (264). Nnamabia had gotten sent to jail for getting caught after a car was stolen during cult activity and people were killed on the school’s campus. Cell One is where the worst criminals stayed; one of the officers dragged a body from the cell to ensure everyone would see it and know not to act out, and that had stuck with Nnamabia. He suddenly wasn’t his normal self and when asked what was wrong, he spoke of a man who…show more content… She puts up with him leaving her at church and robbing his own home, feeling uneasy because of it, and is upset about the way her family treats him after the robbery. When the school had their cult problem, she strongly believed that he was apart of one because “cult boys were popular, and Nnamabia was very popular” (265). She faces a conflict of wanting to believe he’s good after all he’s done, but doesn’t know if she should trust him. After he gets sent to jail, it’s apparent she shouldn’t. She doesn’t want to go visit him everyday with his family, doesn’t think he deserves it, but comforted by his standing up for the older
