The Chocolate War(160-191)

Summary
See there is Janza and I really don't like him as a character in the book. I t wasn't supposed to happened the way it happened it was just supposed to be him. I think he only did that just because he is trying so hard to get into the vigils. By doing that to someone it can really mess you up and it isn't something to play with. All of a sudden Jerry is being ingorned. He really doesn't understand why but it is probably because of the chooclates. It seems like the who school doesn't want to talk to him at all. To me I think they shouldn't treat Jerry like this. First of all he is a new kid in the school and going through a lot of things. Just because he didn't want to sell chocolates eeryone has turned against him. A thing that could have injured him is that he was going down the stairs someone pushed him and he held on to the railing and people was laughing in the background which was horrible. I want to know the real reason why people dont't like him even teachers. It is just chocolates not every year is the same. So as of now the school is 50 boxexs short and it is because of Jerry, so Archie came up with the idea of having him make a raffle off his chocolates. But there was a twist that shocked me. It wasn't benifiting him it was to help the school. Instead of him doing that he has to fight Janza, so once again Jerry has felled for Archie schemes. WOW as reading the story it takes a twist that shocked me and I know it probably docked other people. Going back to the being of the story looking back on when I was talking about how Archie had to pick either a white marble and that indicates that he has to do the assignment and a black marble he doesn't have to do it. Well in the ring he has to pick from the box without looking, and knowing that everyone knows that he have never picked a white yet. As he puts his hands in the box and pulls out a marbel it is white. Everyone is shocked even Archie. That makes Archie nervous but he doesn't show it, then he pulls another marble out and finds out dat there is another white marble. I thought that was pretty weird because there is only suposed to be one. But the thing I didn't get was why Archie didn't do the assignment. So as of now Jerry and Janza is fighting back and forth and Jerry passes out and then the lights go out. Goober runs to Jerry and calls his name and he finally answers. He is brought to the hospital and Brother Jacques didn't like how this turned out. One thing that killed me was that they got away with it again. Hopefully Archie will get what he deserves. The ending got me so mad I really don't understand all of this and that happends.


Quote
A quote I decided to chose is "Some animals from my neighborhood. They'd beat up their own grandmothers for a quarter"(Cormier 161). This quote is really weird to me and it stood out. This quote shows that it was really crazy. For kids to want money why don't they just ask and plus it is just a quarter nothing major. Then again i find that this quote is funny because I have never heard of this in my life. SOme families grown up differently then other families. Some are polite and others isn't.


Reaction
Well I love Robert Cormier writing and his style. I am still mad of how the book ended. I felt as if there should have been something else added to the ended. The thing that he does have you thinking one way but the outcome is so different than what you expected and that is what happened to me. But oerlall I thought it was a good book and I would recommend this book to other people and I would also like to read more of his books.