Social Acceptance

This book goes by diary entries, not chapters. In one of the diary entries, Charlie, the main character, talks about how his friend Patrick shares feelings with the quarter back on the football team at their school, Brad. Brad is so embarrassed and doesn't want people to know, that he has a "girlfriend" and starts drinking and smoking before school everyday so that he doesn't have to deal with the guilt or embarrassment. This is because of the pressures of society. People shouldn't be embarrassed of their personal preferences and they shouldn't have to suffer to deal with the pressures.