Chocolate War

A detailed Summary of Chocolate War

The world was made up of two kinds of people- those

who were victims and those who victimized. There was

no doubt about Janza's category. No doubt about himself,

The above comment was stated by Archie, a senior at Trinity, with a big ego in charge of conjuring up assignments to be issued out to students for a group called the Vigils. Archie also refers to another person, Emile Janza. Emile is a bully who picks on most everyone at the school. These characters along with Brother Leon, the substitute head master in charge of a chocolate sale at the school Archie and Emile attend, all abuse their power throughout the novel. One common goal of theirs, which creates the storyline, is to enforce success with the fundraiser. However, Jerry, a fellow student of Archie and Emile, decides to "disrupt the universe", in this case the school, and it's chocolate sale. With Jerry's non conformance to a higher power, influence and unfair force become prevalent among the those who "Victimize", such as Emile Archie and Brother Leon, while the wrath of such actions are felt by the "Victim", in this case Jerry. The characters that victimize in the book, insidiously scheme together, to find ways to hoodwink, or subjugate Jerry,

Brother Leon, a professor at Trinity, who is presently in charge due to the absence of the headmaster, is the root of all corruption of power in the novel. He begins the misuse of power and ultimately leads jerry to do the same, who in turn involves Janza in doing so. As an authority figure, and in a position of a role model, Brother Leon, should have better qualities and morals for his pupils to emulate, however he doesn't seem to consider this, but is hoodwinked by his own nature. Instead he cares just for the recognition he will receive upon the success of such a large and profitable fundraiser. In order to discover why Jerry wasn't accepting chocolates to sell, Brother Leon blackmailed Coroni by threatening his grades if he wouldn't tell. "On the other hand Coroni, perhaps that F will stand. It depends."(115) His reason for power abuse is greed; greed of recognition, greed of authority. In years to come, Brother Leon may truly damage the universe, because he continues to crawl up the ladder of authority, and he is already producing people like himself. Contrarily, if he would have a conscience in order to be ashamed of his negative inflictions on others, damage would not occur. His actions sadly are not honorable, and when imitated produce negative character among his students, two of which are Emile and Archie.

Emile Janza, an intimidating student at Trinity, seeks rules to break, and students to browbeat constantly. Janza appears to find great pleasure in stirring fear in people's minds, while reeking havoc on school grounds. Emile is eventually sought out by Archie because of those characteristics, to put an end to

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Approximate Word count = 1109
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels