(Edited/Fixed) **** This is a must read book for teens and young adults. “Do I dare disrupt the universe?” is the quote on the poster in Jerry Renault's locker. The Chocolate War is a story about an all boy high school that has a some blanketed government issues. They have a teacher and staff set of rules and regulations to follow, and they have the Vigils, a secret club, that uses ‘assignments’ to keep order and loalty in the the school. There isn’t really a real ‘bad guy’ or villian to the story. I think that, sense the author jumps from the different view points between students of different social (school) rank, the author is trying to put the blame more on society and the corruptness of privite school traditions. I don’t find Archie, the assigner, to be a bad guy, but more of a missguided character. He’s not the sole main character, but he’s my favorite. He’s my favoirite because he doesn’t like violence, but he loves real life in it’s purest, raw form. He finds things that are, in a sense, chaotic, to be like an art form, to be beautiful. I would highly recommend reading this book. Be prepaired for some filler, boring parts in the beginning, but it’s worth it for the stong message sent throughout the second half.
* This is a book about an all boys school and their chocolate sales. The main character Jerry decides to change tradition and not sell the chocolates, which causes him a lot of problems with the teachers and his fellow classmates. I believe that the main focus is about how if someone decides to fight the system for change a lot of people will "charge" against this person because tratition is everything to authority figures. They keep their traditions for their benifit and refuse to change. Other than the main message I got from this book I really didn't care for it, the "chocolate" issue really wasn't interesting.
3 comments:
(Edited/Fixed)
**** This is a must read book for teens and young adults. “Do I dare disrupt the universe?” is the quote on the poster in Jerry Renault's locker. The Chocolate War is a story about an all boy high school that has a some blanketed government issues. They have a teacher and staff set of rules and regulations to follow, and they have the Vigils, a secret club, that uses ‘assignments’ to keep order and loalty in the the school. There isn’t really a real ‘bad guy’ or villian to the story. I think that, sense the author jumps from the different view points between students of different social (school) rank, the author is trying to put the blame more on society and the corruptness of privite school traditions. I don’t find Archie, the assigner, to be a bad guy, but more of a missguided character. He’s not the sole main character, but he’s my favorite. He’s my favoirite because he doesn’t like violence, but he loves real life in it’s purest, raw form. He finds things that are, in a sense, chaotic, to be like an art form, to be beautiful. I would highly recommend reading this book. Be prepaired for some filler, boring parts in the beginning, but it’s worth it for the stong message sent throughout the second half.
* This is a book about an all boys school and their chocolate sales. The main character Jerry decides to change tradition and not sell the chocolates, which causes him a lot of problems with the teachers and his fellow classmates. I believe that the main focus is about how if someone decides to fight the system for change a lot of people will "charge" against this person because tratition is everything to authority figures. They keep their traditions for their benifit and refuse to change. Other than the main message I got from this book I really didn't care for it, the "chocolate" issue really wasn't interesting.
Post a Comment