The Chocolate War

trash-talk it because they think it gives Catholic school, and school in general, a bad rap” (Shmoop). There is explicit content in the book, both sexaully and violently, but it is nothing that teens of today have not seen before in their everyday lives. The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier, although demeaning to Catholic schools due to violence and profanity is an influential book,…

“The Chocolate War” In the book “The Chocolate War” symbolism is viewed and it is important since it reveals a better understanding of what’s going on throughout the story. The chocolates in the story symbolize strength to fight, they demonstrate how it is possible to fight back to conformity. However, that soon changes and chocolates become a symbol for war. The rest of the students from school start thinking that Jerry, the protagonist, feels superior from everyone else and they get angry at…

The Chocolate War has brought up a discussion across the nation. Many people try to debate the point of this book. Many people wonder why the ending ended so poorly. Robert Cormier explained the ending of his book by saying, “I was portraying what happened when good people don’t come to the rescue.” Some people like to claim this quote is untrue; however, I agree with this quote. Because of the poor ending, desertion, and resistion, The Chocolate War proves to be a book where good people do…

Almost all schools have a fundraiser of some sort whether it is selling food or apparel. Jerry Renault refuses to sell chocolates during his school’s fundraiser at demand of Trinity High School’s “gang”, The Vigils. In Robert Cormier’s, The Chocolate War, Jerry Renault learns that his actions of refusing to sell the chocolates have consequences like being bullied. Renault gets beat up at football practice, receives idle phone calls at night, has his locker vandalized, and has his homework…

since it was published in 1974, Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War has been protested for years. Many teachers and parents believe that its portrayal of life and violence make the book too graphic for students. The continuous fight for control and power yield multiple conflicts between characters. The characters attitude between one another depict the overall moral of this book. I believe the novel should not be banned because readers should have the choice of reading the book or not. This book…

Jerry made some crazy choices in The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. And after reading Siegel's article on Teen's brains and their development, we can see why Jerry made some of these decisions. Dopamine could be responsible for Jerry's football try outs, him not selling chocolate, and his fight with Janza. Jerry really wanted to try out for the football team, although he was not suit for it at all, being very skinny. Jerry ended up getting really hurt in the try outs, but continued to play…

Nathalie Ramprashad July, 28, 2015 Bayside High school English Summer Reading Assignment The Chocolate War, written by Robert Cormier is essentially about Jerry Renault, a freshman at Trinity all boys’ school who was assigned to sell chocolates at the school sale by the Vigils, a secret organization at Trinity that keeps everything in the school “under control”. Jerry refuses to sell them because of what the Vigils are doing to harass the other students, giving the Vigils…

weight on his shoulder that almost crushed him. Those were the days where we both struggled but fought our way through it. The Novel that I read was , The Chocolate Wars by Robert Cormier. It all started at a school with a secret society called the Vigils, they were assigned to sell many chocolates as they can. With one voice speaking up, in the name of Jerry, not selling the chocolates brought him into trouble. From getting beat up, and obnoxious phone calls, ultimately fighting for the sake…

trying to suppress personal rights. However in the real world and in community described in The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier this utopian is not the case as Jerry Renault quickly finds out that when an individual defies the norm in society he…

Robert Cormier, the author of The Chocolate War, reveals to the reader to know that an individual who breaks tradition can cause chaos within a community. Jerry is breaking the tradition by not selling chocolate causes a chaos in the school. The Trinity school is ran by the Vigils, the Vigils is an secret organization that scare students and teachers in the school. Jerry is a new student entering the school as a freshman. One member of the Vigils, Archie has the most influence of the people he…