| 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.
Quote
"All right, so he liked to screw around a little, get under people's skin. That was human nature, wasn't it ?"(Cormier 237)
Reaction
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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so, was Jerry right to try and disturb the universe?
How can a student deal with so much "trying to get under the skin" when it seems to be human nature?
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so, was Jerry right to try and disturb the universe?
How can a student deal with so much "trying to get under the skin" when it seems to be human nature?