As we begin our journey into “The Chocolate War” our main character Archie is viewed as the powerhouse of Trinity High school. Everyone in attendance of this school knew that when Archie said jump you were to ask how high. Though at first Archie is very confident with his power and position in this school will he always be this comfortable? Continuously throughout the book Archie is seen making up “projects”, which he assigns to students of Trinity. It is argued that this was to keep the peace between the various students and gangs in the school, others argue it was simply a way for someone to show they had more power than others. But in the end it did not matter. All that mattered was that those assigned to these projects were to always follow …show more content…
For the first few days of the sale he was not to sale the chocolate. This seemed like a simple task not only to Jerry but to all those involved. That is until Jerry decides that he does not want to sell the chocolate at all. This was merely the beginning of the end. After Jerry decided not to sale the chocolate the entire sale took an unexpected turn. Nothing the Vigils did could convince Jerry to begin selling the chocolate and soon after many more students decided that they would not be forced to sell these chocolates every year. As the increase of hatred for the sale increased, Archie’s power seemed to decrease just as fast as it had appeared . The entire school was in an uproar of refusal to sell the chocolate, there seemed to be nothing the Vigils nor staff could do to get the spirit back into the …show more content…
Archie used the very scant amount of power he still had to put this act into motion. All he had to do was publically humiliate Renault while the entire school watched to show to everyone that while he was still there he was in charge and they would obey his every whim. Of course this went as smooth as every project before that one had.. Not only did this put his power back into motion with the students but he even had many of the teachers there backing him up in the decisions he made. During his big plan Archie sees Brother Leon standing on a hill watching as everything goes on. This act assures Archie in his way of thinking that he will not be punished for his actions and that his power is still as strong as ever in Trinity High
People are not prone to agree with one another. If you gather a dozen people together for a dinner party and the subject turns to politics or religion, then there is inevitably going to be an argument. There is one thing, however, that there is a near universal consensus on: chocolate is a wonderful and delicious thing.
Dickens uses verbal irony in his description of the Monseigneur’s chocolate ritual by showing that he must have four men prepare his hot chocolate. If only three men to prepare his hot chocolate it is difficult for him to swallow it. “Yes. It took four men, all four a-blaze with gorgeous decoration”(108). This quote shows how Monseigneur needs specifically four men because each man has one job it has to do like give Monseigneur a napkin, “presented the favoured napkin”(108). “Monseigneur could swallow many things with ease, and was by some few sullen minds supposed to rather be rapidly swallowing France” (108). Dickens uses irony to show the ridiculous situation of the ritual to how France is being destroyed. He uses this to show the contrast as a lord to a servant.
Without all of these major decisions being made throughout the Chocolate War, a lot of what took place in the story would have most likely never happened.
For the children of the projects, the pressure to join a gang never waivers. Quick cash and protection are hard forces to resist in a world of poverty and violence. However, the children's role in these gangs is inferior to that of the leaders. At first, the concept of joining is quite attractive. According to Lafeyette, one of the two brothers profiled in the book, " 'When you first join you think it's good. They'll buy you what you want' " (31). However, " 'You have to do anything they tell you to do. If they tell you to kill somebody, you have to do that' " (31).
February 15th, 1898, all is quiet in Havana Harbor. The crew of the USS Maine is sound asleep less a few solitary watchmen. The brackish sea air and the calm ocean breeze are soothing and peaceful. This would hardly suggest the terror about to erupt on this “peaceful” visit to the Spanish-controlled Cuban harbor. At 9:45PM, a violent explosion rips the Maine apart sending it plummeting down to the muddy sea floor and killing nearly all of her crew. All of the Spanish boats in the harbor rushed to the aid of the American vessel and its survivors: the commander, Captain Charles D. Sigsbee, and a few lucky crewmembers. Even though Captain Sigsbee, a favorite of the Naval Department, urged President McKinley not to react in an aggressive manner toward Spain, the media, namely New York newspaper editors Pulitzer and Hearst, already inflating current issues relating to the Cuban revolution, spin the incident out of control. The American public goes mad with suspicion of Spanish fowl play and the sinking of the USS Maine serves as the immediate catalyst to the Spanish-American war.
Clark’s first solution was to call an all-school get together, assembling all the druggies and troublemakers in front of an audience, and expel them all at once. He then starts to stalk the school hallways, authorizing his own particular rule of dread. Throughout the movie Clark makes both wrong and right decisions. He is a truly grieved man since his wife left him in the past. As the motion picture advances, Clark experiences an identity change; developing, and beginning to figure out how to be sentimental toward others. Nevertheless, Clark’s stubborn and outrageous personality still cleans up Eastside High.
In the novel, there is a constant social power struggle, and a fight for acceptance. Even early in their lives, the Hailsham students want to be accepted. This is demonstrated through the Secret Guard incidents. In the Secret Guard, there is a constant change of members and a withholding of information to obtain social power. In addition, Tommy’s fits are a result of his exclusion from the social circle. Tommy throws tantrums because the other students were mocking him and without having a sense of acceptance Tommy could not control his outbursts. Once he found out a way to be accepted through Ms. Lucy, the outbursts stopped. As it is human nature to desire acceptance from others, the Hailsham students are no different than normal children (in this
... in their quest to bring down corporations, they become one themselves. It is when the narrator learns that he is, and always has been Tyler Durden, and that he is responsible for the numerous evil deeds the group is responsible for, that he feels guilty and wants it to stop. But this rejection is not taken lightly by project mayhem. "you know the drill, Mr. Durden. You said it yourself. You said if anyone ever tries to shut down the club, even you, then we have to get him by the nuts."(Palahniuk 187) Similarly, the 'Generation Xer' becomes trapped in the identity of being 'Generation X'. By trying to rebel through a group identity, they become lost once again as they are now part of yet another group with the same conforming rules as the norm in society that they resist.
2. 	In the exposition of The Chocolate War, Jerry Renault, the freshman quarterback, was receiving constant blows from opposing players. Jerry was trying to get the ball to his receiver, the Goober, but not having any luck.
Chocolate made the journey from Mesoamerica to Spain, and then to other European countries, including England. Not long after the sweetness was tasted in London, it traveled across the Atlantic to the North American colonies. It is possible to have traveled there directly from Jamaica after the island had been seized from Spain. However, the most genuine explanation is that high Colonial officials carried it with them when they were assigned to their administrative posts in Virginia and Massachusetts.
Joe uses extreme tactics to help the students to learn. Joe starts off his first day by expelling all of the drug dealers and users without the consent of the board of education. This shows that joe will go to any means for his school to succeed in their testing. Joe wants to make sure his kids don't go off the rails with drugs and bad influences. Secondly, joe would suspend students who did not know the school song. Joe wanted to build some school spirit within his students. Joe also says he will suspend them to offer up motivation for the students. Finally, Joe makes his staff stay on sundays for the same pay to help the students learn. Joe makes his teachers give up their personal lives to help his students succeed. Also this causes some of the teachers to dislike Joe.
he had nothing to do after school. Both he and G-Ball joined a gang by choice.
In “Lean On Me”, Joe Clark constantly strives to optimize Eastside High in ways such as improving the school environment or his individual consultations with students. While his attempts to improve the conditions of Eastside High are effective, his methods are not favored, as he is constantly facing criticism from other officials and school board members. Though Clark’s actions seemed malicious in intent to most, they were immensely beneficial for the school in reality. This relates strongly to the concept of being misunderstood, as described in Emerson’s “Self Reliance”: “Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton… To be great is to be misunderstood” (366). In essence, this indicates that you shouldn’t worry about how people view your actions, for many of the great thinkers throughout history were misunderstood and thought to be wrong. In the same way, many of the administrators that were against Clark’s actions were not understanding of his methods—which had the students’ best interests in mind rather than the administration’s. In contrast to the administration, the students of Eastside High had developed a great amount of respect for Clark. In “Lean On Me”, Joe Clark talks personally to Kaneesha’s mother to get her help through a struggle with abandoning her
Why would a person decide to betray the beliefs they had fought so hard for? In Robert Cormiers novel The Chocolate War, the character of Jerry Renault changes drastically from a rebel to a follower in the end. The school gang known as the vigils and his moral beliefs motivates Jerry’s actions. He feels he must take a stand against evil. Jerry can be considered a hero because of his beliefs. In the end however he gives in to the things he fought against and becomes a follower.
Robert Cormier is one of the most controversial authors of his time. His novels, particularly his novel The Chocolate War, have been considered to be banned from several high school and college libraries on multiple occasions. Critics bash Cormier’s controversial language used to describe the actions of his characters as well as his themes of triumphant evil that wouldn’t normally be seen in realistic fiction novels. Because this type of writing was “not meant for children” according to the critics, it was almost banned from these libraries (“The Chocolate”). What these critics fail to see, however, is that this book is not meant to be read by children, but by young adults. These themes and language are meant to be read and to be related to