The Chocolate War (127-160)

Summary
Lately Jerry has been thinking about not selling the chocolates. He thinks that it is a good idea of him not selling and saying no , because when he did that it made other people realize and think that you don't have to be scared to say no to something you don't want to do. The next day someone new have to do the assignment and it has to be a junior. So far Archie has never gotten the black ball. The junior that they decided to pick is Frankie Rollo. This boy is very unique and I say that because he is actually not scared of them. Usually everyone is scared of the Vigils and Frankie somewhat challenges them. The president of the Vigils see something wrong with that and they think it is all because of Jerry and him saying no. I think it was a good idea for him to say no because it shows that you do things that you want to do and not getting forced to do it. This thing really shocked me. In school there was a poster board that said "Screw the chocolates and screw the Vigils" . Someone must have been really brave to put that on the wall. Now that has happened the president is getting really mad and he blames Jerry and he also blames Archie so he puts archie on a break from the vigils until the sales are done. The next day pretty weird things have been happening to Jerry. When Jerry gets home from practice he has been recieving prank calls even late at night waking up him and his father. Many things have been happening to him and many things was ruin at school. At first the selling of the chocolates was doing really badly but all of a sudden it started to do good. At first it didn't make since to me, but then to put it together since the vigils made threats to Jerry they was making threats to many other people. In class people was asking why Jerry isn't selling chocolates and asking him does he thinks he is better than other people and he simply answers no. As Jerry is at practice he is released early because he wasn't doing a good job. As he is leaving he sees Janza and it is just them two. Sooner or later people jump out the bushes and they started to beat him up and then they left. Now he is home and he cleans himself up and lays in the dark. I feel bad because noone knows what he is going through besides him. Later the phone rings and usually noone would say anthing, but then someone says come out and play and when he looks out he sees that there is a shadow. The phone keeps ringing and then his father takes it off the hook. I think Jerry should tell his father, but as his thought he doesn't want his father to know that is going on or get involved in it.


Quote
The quote I decided to pick is "Because you put on a bid act, kid. You try to get by with a sincerity act. But you're not kidding me. you live in the closet( Cormier 152)." I decided to pick this quote because I thought it was one of the best quotes. I say that because i see this as being wrong of what Janza is saying. Just because someone stands up and says what they feel they shouldn't be judge on that. To say something like that is harsh because you don't know their life or what they have been threw to say that, so it can really hurt someone. I think Robert Cormier put that in there to show or to send a message on how hurtful things are said by bullies or just people in general. As I was reading this I was becoming so mad because you just don't say that to people.


Reaction
So far the book is really good and many things are really coming out and people's true side is revealing. I love the way Cormier have this book set up. At first I didn't know what The Chocolate War title meant and what it was for the story. As im reading it and understanding it more im starting to know how the title fits in with the story. Knowing that you can see what many people would do to sell chocolates and do what they have to do. So far I'm loving the book and I can't wait to finish reading the rest of it.