| Tuesday, December 15, 2009 |
| The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier pg 202-263 |
Summary
Harold Dacey calls out Jerry on why de dosn't sell his chocolates during the roll call. Jerry reminds him that the sale is voulentary and that he does not need to sell the chocolates. Mean while Goober has reached is 50th sold box when he knows that he has only sold 27. After being harrased by Emile and being called gay, Jerry gets jumped by a group of boys after football practice. Jerry is starting to feel that everone is ignoring him, even the teachers. Before a lot of students supported Jerry and his actions. The punishments fromt the Vigils have scared a lot of the students, and that is why they are ignoring Jerry. The school is now only 50 boxes short of their goal and the 50 boxes is from Jerry. Archie wants Jerry to raffle off his boxes of chocolates.
Archie has convinced Jerry and Emile to have a boxing match in a special assembly in order to raffle of Jerr'ys boxes of candy. At the end of the match, Jerry has a broken jaw, but Archie feels an accomplishment because all of the boxes were sold. Also Brother Leon seems to watch Archie's back to most likely not get him in trouble.
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"All right, so he liked to screw around a little, get under people's skin. That was human nature, wasn't it ?"(Cormier 237)
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A lot of the members of the Vigils got under people's skin all the time. Maybe this is what they thought was human nature because they were so used to this type of behavior. Attending Trinity High School is similar to survival of the fittest. This is the reason why an individual had to protect himself. The Vigils were always preying on the weeker students to do their diry work that it became there human nature. |
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| Thursday, December 10, 2009 |
| The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier pg 150-201 |
Summary
Brian Cocharn is the treasurer for the school, and he has noticed that for a week now, sales were dropping at a fast rate. When Brian tells Brother Leon, he becomes very angry. Leon blames Jerry for "infecting" the other students, causeing them to not want to sell chocolates. Goober is upset that Brother Eugene is not coming to teach because of what happened on room 19. Goober quites the football tema because feels that the school and the vigils are just bad, and wants nothing to do with them. Brother Leon becomes angry with Archie and yells at him because the sales are doing very poorly.Archie had recived information from Brian Cochran that Brother Leon had brought the chocolates in advance with money he was not suppose to, and now Leon is cought in the middle of the debt. In order to try and make Jerry sell the chocolates, the Vigils give him a new assignment that is to take the chocolates during the next roll call. Because of Jerry's rebellion, the Vigils have been harrasing gim, distroying much of his person all things. These can be seen as messages that something bad is going to happen. Due to the harrasment of the Vigils to the other students in the school, the chocolate slaes has begun rising.
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"Everybody has to do things in this world they don't want to."(Cormier 172)
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Archie is trying to make a point to Jerry that even though you dont want to do certain things, you still have to. I feel that Cormier ment for this quote to go outside the reading as well. He allows the reader to pause and think about situations where they were forced to go things they did not want to do, therefore putting therself inside Jerry's shoes. This allows the reader to have a better understanding of what is going on in the book, and maybe the emotions of Jerry. |
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