The Chocolate War (pgs 201-250)

Summary: In these pages, things get a little awkward. Things get awkward and its primarily only for one reason. Within these pages contains information that the students are all set with chocolate. Not even a page later, the students want a whole lot more chocolate than expected. It may sound pretty awkard and strange but, that's this book. I also am starting to think that within these pages is where the title of the book is formed. Lately in the book, all they are talking about is chocolate.
Quote: "The compliment melted Brian's opposition. Besides, he was scared stiff of Archie amd The Vigils. Personal survival, that's what Brian believed in" (Cormier 236).
Reaction: How can you melt yourself's opposition?? Well anyway, I think Brian is coming up pretty often as the book is closing. There isn't much going on about Jerry anymore but that can quickly change as the book wraps up. So it is good that Brian believes in personal survival, which from that you can derive that he believes in surviving. I am not sure why it is "personal survival" but I am pretty sure Brian knows. That is what I derived from that quote.

The Chocolate War (pgs 151-200)

Summary: What happens in these 50 pages is that Brian Cochran is starting to have his sales dip extremely. He had to wonder if he did his arithmetic right. He shouldn't have that problem but I am pretty sure he'll get through it. Brian always wondered what Leon would say and it was in fact his main concern what Leon said. I don't know why but Leon would always make Brian nervous. It's truly an enigma as I hope Brian can get over his nervousness towards Leon.


Quote: "Brian flushed with anger. He was tempted to throw the master sheet at the Brother but held back. Nobody defied Brother Leon. Not Brian Cochran, anyway, who only wanted to get out of here." (Cormier 152)


Reaction: This situation reminds me of the ones where someone is so mad but no matter how mad they are, they would never react voilently toward a person of high respect to them. In this case, it's Brian and Leon. Brian is pretty upset that the sales are down for selling chocolate. I personally think someone should be trying to calm him down. Although that is what I think, they are in a gang and maybe they just let everyone deal with their own problems. So that is basically the main thing that went on through these pages of the book.

The Chocolate War (Pgs 101-150)

Summary: A lot more is going on in this book that seems to have the title make a little bit more sense as the story goes on. Aside from that, the first two pages of chapter 15 have Archie and Emile Janza talking about a picture. They don't actually mention what contains the picture for a while but it is later revealed that it is a picture of Archie. I brought this up because I think that it could be something that comes up later on in the book, especially the way that they talked about it.


Quote: "The next morning Jerry found out how a hangover must feel. His eyes burned with fire, fuueled by lack of sleep" (Cormier 124).


Reaction: This quote shows that Jerry hasn't got a full rep just yet. I say that because he is in the 9th grade and he is just now experiencing a hangover. I am not saying that by 9th grade you should have already had a hangover. What i am saying is that with what this book described him as in the beginning, he does not seem like he has been to that level yet. We will see if he rises to that level in these next few chapters.