Jerry In the novel "The Chocolate War" a character that helps develop the plot is Jerry Renault. The story is based on the students selling chocolates. ... He has to refuse to sell the chocolates from Brother Leon's classes. ... For selling the chocolates this makes Jerry standout as an individual "no means you don't wish to sell the chocolates, that you refuse to participate" Jerry goes against Trinity tradition and is alone in doing so. ... To conclude Jerry helps develop the plot but the story "The Chocolate War" is also based about Jerry's individuality and how he create...

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Chocolate War BOOK REPORT TITLE: The Chocolate War AUTHOR: Robert Cormier PUBLICATION DATE: 1974 PLACE SETTING: The story is set in New York. ... Jerry is all by himself against the Vigils and, it seems, the faculty of the school, who blindly let the chocolates become their number one priority. ... There is a big chocolate-selling fund-raiser in the school, and the Vigils tell Jerry to refuse to sell chocolates for 10 days, knowing he will face much scrutiny and pressure from other students. ... Archie, the "assigner" of the Vigils, is under pressure to get all the chocolates sold, becau...

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In the novel the Chocolate War Archie is popular, manipulative, and powerful. ... In each power struggle involving Archie in the chocolate war by Robert Cormier, Archie posses something his opponents want. ... The chocolate sale was supposed to be voluntary. ... When the chocolate sales weren't going well he relied on Archie to make selling the chocolates "the cool thing to do." ... In each power struggle involving Archie in The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier, Archie posses something his opponents want. ...

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Chocolate Definition There is some confusion about the derivation of the word "chocolate." ... One other possibility is that chocolate is derived from the Maya verb chokola'j, which means, "to drink chocolate together." ... However, chocolate goes back much farther. ... Real vanilla is only used in fine chocolate. ... In 1900 Queen Victoria sent special made chocolate bars to soldiers fighting in the Boer War as a New Year's greeting....

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The Chocolate War - An Alternate Ending Today was it. Jerry was supposed to start his chocolate sales today, according to the vigils assignment. ... They were the top sellers of the recent chocolate selling fundraiser at Trinity. ... When Brother Leon took the chocolate roll call, Goober said, simply, "no."" ... He started selling the chocolates himself to break even. ...

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The Chocolate War Setting The book The Chocolate War was located at Trinity High School for boys in a small city. ... He gives Jerry the "chocolates" assignment. ... Leon wants Archie to be the person behind the chocolate sale. ... A boy refused to sell the chocolates. ... To not sell chocolates for the first ten days. ...

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Many different themes are expressed in the novel The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. ... Another theme shown in The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier is courage. Jerry Rennault shows courage when he refuses to sell the chocolates. ...

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The novel The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier is a story about a boy named Jerry Renault who refuses to sell chocolates for a fundraiser in his school. ... The Chocolate War contains all the components of a coming of age novel. ... The Chocolate War belongs to the coming of age genre because Jerry Renault learns an important lesson of self-development. The Chocolate War is the story of Jerry's growth and development within himself. ... The coming of age genre of literature contains four major elements, all of which, The Chocolate War has proven to contain. ...

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The Chocolate War By Robert Cormier Chapter1: The first chapter begins with football team tryouts. ... Goober- Full name: Roland Goubert Jerry- His assignment is the chocolates. ... Chapter4: The start of "The Chocolate War" is now becoming apparent. ... And I feel that this is where Jerry will start "The Chocolate War" Figurative Language and Imagery: Page22- " hold a class in the palm of his hand." ... Symbolism: The chocolates represent the book itself and the school. ...

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Conformity means giving in to group pressures. Everyone is a a member of one group or another and everyone expects members of these groups to behave in certain ways. Fear of humiliation can lead to conformity. People agree with others because they fear being ridiculed, or being isolated from the gro...

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Como agua para Chocolate is the first novel by Laura Esquivel. ... Like Water for Chocolate contains many different themes. ... The Mexican Revolution was taking place during Like Water for Chocolate. ... In 1914, Carranza became president as civil war erupted (Novels 198). ... By the end of 1915, the war ended, but Villa and Zapata continued to oppose the new government. ...

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The Hershey Chocolate Company's entrance into the confectionary world occurred at the beginning of the 20th century, following the decision of Milton Hershey, a candy manufacturer, to add a layer of milk chocolate to a line of his company's caramels. The chocolate received immediate success, with a steady demand driving the creation of various forms of the chocolate including the iconic Hershey Bar. Once the market was established for this distinctly flavored confection, a factory dedicated solely to the production of chocolate was opened in 1905, in rural Pennsylvania, becoming the ...

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Later he changes the setting back to the war and then back to after the war. ... Because Tim makes the war seem real to the audience, it makes then question, what is war really? ... I remember how he hopped over to Azar and asked for a chocolate bar- 'GI number one,' the kid said- and Azar laughed and handed over the chocolate.... The war had its moments too. He creates this feeling by showing the boy is missing a leg, and how the soldier just laughed and handed over the chocolate bar without much resistance. ...

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The film "Like Water for Chocolate," directed by Alfonso Arautries, effectively captures the roles women are expected to play in society. ... Most of the women in "Like Water for Chocolate," are portrayed as mothers and in domestic roles. ... After months of being away from home, she returns home not only as a general to revolutionary troops in the war, but married, and still remains an object of attraction for the troops. ... As in the movie "Like Water for Chocolate," in Chasteen's "Born In Blood and Fire," it is evident how rebellion plays a huge part in not only the start of the Mexic...

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In Like Water for Chocolate the narrator, a woman, sees everything in life from an emotional standpoint. ... She saw life through love and emotion and not through the eyes of hatred or war. The film, Like Water for Chocolate, represents a story through incorporating the idea of food as feelings and expressing the woman's roles during the Mexican Revolution. ...

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His assignment was that he was not to sell any chocolate during the sale. ... That's what he did but instead of selling the chocolate at the end of the ten days he decided to become his own man and not sell chocolate at all. ... He was told that he would be able to prove himself to the school and sell his chocolates. It would be done bye a raffle, if a kid bought a chocolate bar he could put in a direction. ... Climax The climax of the story is when Jerry got the assignment to not sell the chocolate. ...

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Power and abuse are to actions that are very mistreated in the novel, The Chocolate War. ... In the Chocolate War, Robert Cormier uses the third person perspective so he could get everyone's actions in together to explain the uses of power even better. ... When he decides to take on the fundraising of the chocolates he thought that every student would participate out of compulsory and duress (Cormier, 116). Jerry takes on the assignment from the Vigils and won't sell any chocolates but it was only going to last a couple days. However, when the assignment expired , he still doesn&...

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Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw PLAY SUMMARY In a war between Bulgaria and Serbia, the Serbian soldiers are fleeing. ... Bluntschli, on the other hand, is a soldier who prefers a supply of chocolates to bullets. ... Four months later, after the war is over, MAJOR PETKOFF and Sergius receive a warm welcome from MRS. ... Raina, who had put her picture in the pocket inscribed to her "Chocolate Cream Soldier," is apprehensive that her father will discover the photograph. Sergius eventually learns the true identity of the "Chocolate Cream Soldier" and challenges Bluntschli to a duel. ...

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In addition to chocolate coatings, Mr. Hershey made breakfast cocoa, sweet chocolate and baking chocolate. ... In 1905, Hershey's Chocolate was born and the mass production of milk chocolate began. ... During World War II, he developed a bar that became a daily nutrition ration for the troops. ... The Hershey Chocolate Company still produces chocolate candy just like when Milton first built the factory. ...

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In his fourth novel The Chocolate War Cormier uses his own son's refusal to sell chocolate as a school fund-raiser as a prompt. The Chocolate War is Cormier's most controversial novel ever. The use of darkness and hopelessness as themes made people critical of The Chocolate War. ... During the time period of Cormier's life and this novel, the Viet Nam War had just ended, women such as Betty Friedan encouraged women to challenge the traditional roles of society, disabled Americans had few rights, and Richard Nixon had resigned the office of the presidency because of the Water...

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In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, Jack Merridew is a young boy who survives a plane crash on a stranded island with other boys. Among these boys there is Ralph, who tries to lead the boys towards focusing on being rescued and Jack, who leads the boys towards hunting and savagery. L...

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-------- is a global, multinational company with one specific goal: to provide cheap, delicious, quality chocolate to as many people as possible. ... Economic condition in Africa spiraled down in the post- Second World War period as the empires channeled all resource into rebuilding their own countries. ... Prices bottomed out, to their own advantage and to that of their buyer-chocolate companies. ... The Africans had been suffered a lot because of their country poverty and work to death just because they are labor exploited for the chocolate, so we can have the sweet chocolate for our daily ...

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Another tactic that Stalin used, which is shown in 1984, is using a war or a common enemy to unite his people. In 1984 they are always talking about some war with another country and this war is always shown on giant propaganda television screens. ... A good example is when the protagonist Winston is given an article, which says that the rations of chocolate will be decreased from 25 grams to 20 grams. Winston changes the article to say that the chocolate rations will be raised from 20 grams to 25 grams, making IngSoc look better. ...

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The stage is set on the chocolate shop's opening day when Vianne tells Reynaud with a matter of fact that "I don't go to church" " war has begun. She opens a chocolate shop (La Celeste Paraline) crammed with the most tempting of confections and offering a mouth-watering variety of hot chocolate drinks. ... The chocolate is a metaphor. ...

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Stuck In Neutral "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get."(Forrest Gump) Substantiated in Terry Trueman's novel, Stuck in neutral, an unwinable war is fought between Shawn and the disability with which he was cursed. ... Life is like a box of chocolates. ...

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