The Chocolate War(54-93)

Summary
The next morning the students came in and even Brother Eugene and as the students went to sit down everything started to fall apart. Even when Brother Eugene chair fell apart. A student says that all of this is because of the Vigils. Brother Leon comes and start to get rough with Archie pushing him against the walls. Besides that going back to the football tryouts once again Jerry is being manhandled on the field. Playing the play over and over again then finally on the 17th try Jerry gets off a pass to Goober who goes in for a touchdown. Jerry is soo happy, then when he goes to his locker there is an assignment from the Vigil. The chocolate sale begun and Jerry still refuses to sell them, and Goober is shocked because everyone agreed to sell them. John Sulkey is the master of selling things. He wants to sell more than everybody else. Then you have a boy name Tubs Casper and he is really trying to sell the chocolate so he can get his girlfriend a bracelet. Then you have a boy name Paul Consalvo. He tries to sell chocolates, but he is having a hard time trying to sell them. In a conversation between Archie and Emile Janza, Archie went into the boys bathroom and saw Emile do something real inapropiate. Archie pretended to take a picture and really didn't, so he was blackmailing him just for fun. Usually Brother Leon is nice and cool this time we see him at his worse. This straight "A" student named Caroni recieves and "F" for the first time on the test. Brother Leon will decide if he will change it or not. Finally after all of that trouble, Jerry decides to accept the chocolates. Later on Jerry starts to struggle of understanding why he really refused the chocolate. He can't sleep at all because the moment is replaying in his head. He keeps thinking about death and what happends to their bodies when they die. All Jerry wants is his life to be normal again. He wants there to be no more assignments, no Vigils, and no more refusing chocolates.


Quote
The quote that I'm going to use is "Was it because of what Brother Leon does to people, like Bailey, the way he tortures them, tries to make fools of them in front of everybody" (Cormier 91). I chose to pick this quote because I felt as in if there are people like that in the world many people can get hurt by what people are saying. The thing is you will never know because many people might not show it. For a teacher to do that, it is really disrespectful and wrong. A teacher is never supposed to bring a child down they should be bringing them up. That is why it is good that someone asked him if it was him because he has a way of bringing people down and making them feel like they are nothing. To feel that way really stinks because as a person if you know you shouldn't be treated like that then why just sit there and take it. Something should be done about it.


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So far the book it is going through different stages. Cormier writing style is very different then other authors. The story is told from different points of views throughout the book. The narrator wells to me I think it is mostly Jerry. The reason why is because in the story it somehow goes back to Jerry and his problems and reminisce on the things in his past. The thing that makes his writing so interesting is that the different things going on at once, and for some reason they all tie in together. So far this is a good book and i can't wait to read more.