Close Reader 9. REREAD Reread lines 164-183. What do you think finally

provokes Collins's decision to leave the regiment and go to the well?

The evil peer pressure has struck once again. Look at his words - crying out - certainly I am - they are demanding that he go along with them and the plans they have.

Explanation:

He feels pressure from his peers to go along with them instead of thinking for himself and standing up for what he actually believes.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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