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Chocolate sale or chocolate war?

Chocolate sale or chocolate war?

The novel the ‘Chocolate War’ is described as being a novel simply about a chocolate sale, the correct answer is that this is novel, is more than that perhaps this book can be described as the war of the chocolate sale. Already from the opening page of this exclusive book, where an unremitting defence clobbers quarterback Jerry Renault, 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 high school. The Chocolate War is not all about the school wide 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 Trinity was always "the students vs. the teachers". It then changed to "the Vigils vs. the teachers", particularly talking...

Posted by: William Katz

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