ber 1, 2015 These days many teens are pushed into fitting in within society and the friend groups, which doesn't always result in good decisions. In “On the Bridge” By Todd Strasser, a boy named Adam and his friend Seth are on a bridge after school, and Adam and Seth are smokin. Adam ends up flicking his butt of this cigarette on the windshield of the cars beneath the bridge, which results in the car whipping around the curve onto the bridge that Adam and Seth are on. The men ask who did it and because Adam was scared he points to Seth and he ends up getting beat up. In the end of the story Seth realizes that he needs to be himself and that someone who thinks they are all that never turn out to be. I believe In the story “On the Bridge” the Setting and conflict are fit very well in the outline and the outcome of the story.…show more content… In the story, the author states the setting very clearly saying, “The bridge was old and made of large granite blocks” (Strasser 1). In the text Seth and Adam had just gotten out of school and Adam had decided to head over to the bridge in which Seth followed him. Another sentence that supports the setting is “he held the butt of his cigarette between this thumb and middle finger and flicked it over the side of the bridge and down into traffic” (Strasser 2). With the setting being on the bridge and the conflict being that Adam flicked the butt on the car if the setting was anywhere else the story wouldn’t have made any