Is It A Chocolate Sale

…Or A Chocolate War..?? Essay, Research Paper

Chocolate “sale” or…..chocolate “war”? Although you describe this novel as

being mainly based on simply the chocolate sale, the correct answer is more like the

war of the chocolate sale. Already from the opening page of this exclusive book,

where quarterback Jerry Renault is clobbered by a relentless defense, The Chocolate

War is relentless in its portrayal of the vicious, sometimes violent world of high

school. Through Jerry Renault, Robert Cormier who is the author of this book,

thrusts us into the tormenting world of Trinity High, an all boys prep school.

The Chocolate War isn’t all about the schoolwide chocolate sale Brother

Leon presented to Trinity. The sale is part of the “war” going on through the school,

but even before the sale was put out, problems already were occurring. The theme in

their school was always “the students vs. the teachers”. It then lowered down to “the

Vigils vs. the teachers”, particularly talking about Archie Castello, head and assigner

of the Vigils, and Brother Leon, assistant headmaster of Trinity. These conflicts were

already existing before the sale was given by Brother Leon. The characters are

guided by peer pressures and the desire to please (or displease) their teachers. All of

this is just a piece of the war at Trinity.

The real chocolate war all started out just as Brother Leon announced and

introduced the chocolate sale that all the students were supposed to participate in.

Everyone was perfectly fine about the idea of the sale since it is held as one of the

biggest fund-raisers all year to help the school. But once Leon changed around the

expectations on the sale, conflicts around the school began to form. This year,

Brother Leon wants the entire school to sell up to 20,000 boxes of chocolate, which

means every single student is needed to sell 50 boxes each. Some of the students

were excited and motivated to sell their set of chocolates, while some only sold them

because they feared Brother Leon. Many of the students didn’t want to sell the

chocolates, but they were all afraid of what Brother Leon might do if they weren’t

involved in the fund-raiser. They all knew about the unexplained failures Leon gives

out to the students in his class. The reasons of these F’s are usually something that is

related to the sale.

Archie Castello came up with a clever, yet of course cruel, idea for an

assignment about the chocolate sale. Everyone knew how serious Brother Leon was

with the sale, sometimes even going a little overboard with it. Everyone, is of course

including Archie. He knew that Leon would just go out of his mind if a student at

Trinity, just one little student, didn’t sell the chocolates. It seemed just like the

greatest idea he came up with yet, except the difficult part was to find who would be

capable and willing to do such a thing. He needed to find someone who was brave

enough and that “had the guts”. Just about every student in Trinity was extremely

frightened and intimidated by Leon, but a lot easier than it sounds, it actually didn’t

take long for Archie to find the right person. This is when he came up with the idea

of having Jerry Renault carry out the assignment of refusing to sell absolutely no

chocolates for a certain amount of weeks. Once Archie saw how Renault never gave

up on the football field, no matter how much he was getting thrashed or even if he

happened to be the smallest player out there, he knew Jerry was perfect for the

position.

Other than Jerry looking like a wimp, he was probably the only guy tough

enough who had the actual guts to face Brother Leon himself. He did as he was

assigned by the Vigils, to refuse to sell any chocolates. Jerry actually said, “no,” to

Leon. Everyday, he had to face that intimidating teacher and being in the

uncomfortable position of isolation against all the other students who had sold the

chocolates. Just a few weeks seemed just about forever.

Brother Leon, of course, was furious about this. Especially since he was so

serious about his sale. he wasn’t going to let one little boy ruin the sale for him. He

even blackmailed David Caroni with his grades. Caroni was a straight A student,

never receiving lower than that grade, and Leon knew if he used his grades against

him, Caroni would have to tell him the explanation of why Renault wasn’t selling

the chocolates.

Even though Brother Leon soon discovered that the reason of the behavior of

Renault had to do with the Vigils, there want much he could do that would force

Jerry to change his mind and start selling the chocolates. Archie couldn’t even get

Jerry to sell again. When Archie asked him to sell the chocolates, Renault still

refused. And all of this is still just most of the beginning of the actual chocolate war.

Since Renault refused to sell, others soon started to believe that if Jerry didn’t

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