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 stolen from him. He tries to stand up to the bullies but keeps getting knocked down. Jerry Renault is a freshman at an all boys school called Trinity High School and is trying out for the school’s football team when we meet him. At the school there is
