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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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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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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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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