Do you ever feel pressured to go along with the group? Do feel the need to do what everyone else in the group does? This is what Herd behavior is going along with the crowd, just doing what everyone else does. Herd behavior describes how a crowd of people can act together without centralized direction. This normally happens to humans when there are times of fear or being in a terrible situation. Herd behavior occurs in real life and in the novel The Chocolate War.
First, In the story The Chocolate War herd behavior appears to happen to the characters. They behave like this because of The Vigils. The Vigils are a secret club at Trinity High School. The Vigils are like the popular kids, if they do something for the school like for example when they started selling chocolates, kids saw how it was getting popular and then they started selling them as well, they followed along. They made it ‘‘cool’’ by also selling chocolates and make it seem likes everyone who didn't sell chocolates were. …show more content…
Archie and The Vigils held an assembly that only the students knew about, teachers didn’t know about the rally. The reason Archie is having the raffle is so Jerry can raffle off his chocolates. Jerry Renault and Emile Janza are the ones participate in the event, they sell raffle tickets to the audience in which they can request the type of hit they want each of the fighters to do to the other during the fight. Everyone heard about the fight and showed up to the assembly and everyone was cheering and getting wild. Everyone purchased a raffle ticket and were sayings things like ‘‘Action, action,’’ someone called. And the cry was taken up by
First, In the story The Chocolate War herd behavior appears to happen to the characters. They behave like this because of The Vigils. The Vigils are a secret club at Trinity High School. The Vigils are like the popular kids, if they do something for the school like for example when they started selling chocolates, kids saw how it was getting popular and then they started selling them as well, they followed along. They made it ‘‘cool’’ by also selling chocolates and make it seem likes everyone who didn't sell chocolates were. …show more content…
Archie and The Vigils held an assembly that only the students knew about, teachers didn’t know about the rally. The reason Archie is having the raffle is so Jerry can raffle off his chocolates. Jerry Renault and Emile Janza are the ones participate in the event, they sell raffle tickets to the audience in which they can request the type of hit they want each of the fighters to do to the other during the fight. Everyone heard about the fight and showed up to the assembly and everyone was cheering and getting wild. Everyone purchased a raffle ticket and were sayings things like ‘‘Action, action,’’ someone called. And the cry was taken up by