The Chocolate War Character Analysis

Teachers are supposed to be the backbone in helping young adults in make great decisions. In the novel The Chocolate War, written by Robert Cormier, Goubert is a young kid who is scared of being caught for what he did. He was very scared of Brother Leon who would make sure that Goubert was never allowed back inside of Trinity High School. When Goubert went into room nineteen on one night, he disassembled everything that had a screw in it. This was a huge deal for The Goob because it was his first assignment from the Vigils. When Brother Leon questioned The Goober about the sale, it was almost as if he was setting The Goob up for him to spill the beans. Ronald Goubert was scared for his life if Brother Leon knew that he was the one who disassembled …show more content…
Ronald Goubert was intimidated for a huge reason. Leon thought Goubert was acting weird because he wasn’t going to sell the chocolate, but that it was because The Goob was scared he was going to get questioned about room nineteen. Ronald was an undercover hero. This was very apparent when he would walk through the hallways of Trinity. Whenever the other students would see him, it would be almost instinct for them to give him looks, complements, and slaps on the butt. People knew he had done the assignment, giving to him by Archie. The underlying problem that Roland Goubert was facing was that he didn’t want to be known as the kid who destroyed room nineteen and he did not like that. From The Goober’s perspective, this whole incident makes him scared because the teachers can also tell that something was going on with The Goober. He had done something bad and Goubert thought the teachers knew that he was the one who deconstructed room nineteen. When Brother Leon was questioning him about if he would commit to doing the sale, Goubert seemed scared but that was because The Goob thought he was being set up by Brother Leon. Ronald was showing his fear and this did not help his position in the matter. The Goober was so scared everywhere he went in Trinity. Because of this, he has not gotten any sleep thinking about what is going to happen to him. All that Goubert can …show more content…
The headmaster of Trinity was in horrible health. In order to keep his position as the new head, Brother Leon had to make sure that every student participated in this years chocolate sale. When Leon saw what happened to room nineteen, his gut instinct was that the Vigil’s were behind it. Brother Leon might have known that Ronald Goubert did it, but we cannot know for sure. All we can know about Leon’s Perspective was that he knows something was going on with The Goober. Brother Leon’s side to the incident is much more important than at first glance though. He is the whole reason why The Goober was acting weird in Leon’s class for roll call, the day after the room nineteen destruction. Leon was going through his new routine of asking everyone if they are going to participate in the chocolate sale that is happening during this school year. Robert Cormier does a great job at writing a character like Brother Leon to become the guy who every student is scared of. Brother Leon is an important role in the story throughout the book as being the teacher that no kid wants to mess with. Leon is the most terrifying person in the story thus far and if it wasn’t for Leon, the book would be a happy story about how the Vigil’s get away with everything that they do. But Brother Leon is smarter than the kids at Trinity High School. The kids do not know how Leon works. Leon wants to make certain that he is incharge