Chocolate War

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I definately agree with the statement: "Evil triumphs when good people remain silent." Many times when people are stuck in compromising situations they choose to lay low and keep a low profile. If they just chose to open their mouth and say something then they could maybe help the situation. What often causes people to remain silent is the fear of being ridiculed or singled out. This proves to be true in Robert Cormier's novel, The Chocolate War, and John Knowles' novel, A Separate Peace. Jerry Renault chooses to open his mouth and stop evil from triumphing, while Gene proves that being silent will help evil to triumph.

Jerry Renault was a good person that chose not to remain silent to stop evil from triumphing. He has always viewed himself as a cowa

rd and he never said what he wanted to say. Brother Leon, headmaster at Jerry's school, had overpurchased boxes of chocolates and had to get rid of them so he setup a school wide chocolate sale. Brother Leon was selling the chocolates at an outrageous price and each student had to sell fifty boxes. When Archie, assigner for the Vigils, approaches Jerry with a proposition to refuse to sell chocolates for the school sale, Jerry knew this was his chance. The deal was that Jerry would not sell chocolates for ten days, but Jerry took the deal further. He did this for himself. If he had just sold the chocolates then Brother Leon's greed would have never been exposed. But he did not stay silent even though he became an outcast and everyone ridiculed him. He wa

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Approximate Word count = 509
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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