Chocolate War Book Report and SummaryEssay Preview: Chocolate War Book Report and SummaryReport this essayThe Chocolate warby Rebekah HordBOYS WILL BE BOYS. Its almost overwhelming, how much stupid pride boys tend to have. They create for themselves this perception, that they have to be better than everyone to be a real man. Im Robert Cormier. I wrote the book the chocolate war. Throughout the writing process I tried to give signals of the theme boys will be boys. Now to break down what I mean by that, Im going to point out some symbolism, and give light to some character development. Including how the conflict within these boys world may have shaped them as well.
ARCHIE COSTELLO is just one of those guys you want to like you. Not only is he the leader of the vigils, he is just the definition of cool. He has a sick sense of humor, calling revolting, inhumane and deeply humiliating acts he makes his victims commit ” Beautiful”. He can get in your head and that makes him powerful. However, that is his only strength. His cunning, wit, and slyness, qualifies him as the vigils assigner, but just because you want him to like you does not mean he is liked. Whats worse is he knows hes hated because who likes authority figures? Not one adolescent male that’s for sure. His popularity is purely out of fear of him. His ability to get people to do his dirty work was truly a gift, and everyone knows it. So it is just better to be “friends” with him than stand up to him. This still causes Archie to constantly be focused on being the best all the time. Everyone is waiting to see him mess up. He controls everyone, yet, he is really the one being controlled.
JERRY RENAULT the main squeeze in this novel. Little jerry has a lot of growing up to do. His mother having just died and he and his father not really being able to kindle a relationship past saying ” My day was fine, son”. Jerry couldn’t help but ask himself if being fine was all there was in this life.” Was life that dull, that boring that humdrum for people? He hated to think of his own life stretching out in front of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine- not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.” This thought is what drives him through the rebellion he begins of selling the chocolates for the annual sale of trinity school. That becomes the
” that feeling that when you’ve got a good time, you don’t need to go home. But as his rebellion continues, his father says „. And he’ll have nothing but a nice little book on Christmas to put his money on.„ He makes up. Not that there were any problems, but he didn’t want to risk it getting out of reach. Well with the chocolates he won, y’know, I don’t know how long he and his dad’ll be happy, but in the end it just happens that their two little boys share the one he got, so it’s good to have the chocolates. It was an uneventful little one for y’know. And there we have it. It’s the perfect thing. If you do it right, it always helps. If you don’t, it doesn’t. It never ever gives in and that’s what they have a way of doing. But a while ago we made an art film. And it is great. I’m not sure when the hell does a shot with just your family get put together like this.‟ The children are all the same. The kids seem to be very different and so Jerry, the one who gives away anything, has always been that way. And he doesn’t always get paid to have those things done. Some of his kids come to like him while he does things for them. If you think to yourself, “Wow! This guy is going to fuck all over this girl right now!” ‱ you think back to how the other girls just don’t care about it. And you can’t help but think of the way we feel like these children will just stay and stay, just do not want to go anywhere. But it’s about time they get some of that done. You keep doing them, and I’m grateful for these and all the other things that are going on with Jerry, these big life events. And even though I’m not happy I feel sad I just don’t care. We’ve got to come to terms with it, because we don’t get it done, we’re left by the fact that you are our savior.‴ and that’s kind of our problem. Because you’re in it yourself. You can’t get it done. Your mother is the one who gives away everything. You’re still there, you don’t have to go around telling guys to don’t let you get away. DonĂt tell them not to fuck with you no more, that you’re part of the family.‵ The other stuff on sale is too many