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People long to be accepted by a group throughout life. This acceptance gives the assurance of support and comfort from others who are alike. People in such groups have set beliefs which cause them to be ignorant towards differences in their surroundings. The strength in organizations provokes fear in those who want to express their individual differences. Those wanting to be different are afraid of the judgmental ridicule they will face from their fellow group members. In the story "The Shining Houses" the author Alice Munro develops the idea that conformity causes people to respond to individual differences with ignorant judgments. The threat of these convictions causes members of groups to fear revealing their individual variations.
Affiliating with a group bestows people with encouragement, friendship, and comfort, as long as the affiliate continues to have the same conceptions as the rest of the group. The members of the new subdivision are a tight group. Since they are mostly......

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