The Chocolate War Analysis

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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 can make or break you at school. The Trinity school is based upon tradition so they have an annual chocolate sale, “But we have tradition working in our favor the chocolate sale annual event” said Brother Leon(pg.23). Brother Leon talked to Archie personally because he knows how much influence he have over the community. The school has a group of students in a secret organization known as the Vigils and if they give you assignment you will follow it and you don’t say no. The organization made up of individuals that control the community. Those individuals can influence the community to do whatever they want. The Vigils even have control over teachers they are the leader of the community. Archie’s plan made Brother Eugene tremble. Archie would give a kid an assignment and he would accept it without hesitation because they knew if they would say no there will be a consequence in return. That one individual control that
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The community rejects the freshman from being in the community so they are outcast from everyone else.When Jerry made a good pass to Goober and he made a touchdown. “We just might make a quarterback out of you yet,you skinny son of a b*tch.” said Coach After the coach accepted him the team accepted him. The community accepted the individuals after other individuals accepted

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