The Chocolate War Character Analysis

Because of that they decided to contact Emile. He was a guy that Archie was suborning about a picture that according to him could destroy Emile’s reputation. Emile settle to help them and he and a bunch of guys attack Jerry beating him. Also, Emile tell him that he was going to ruin Jerry’s reputation. Emile was going to destroy Jerry’s reputation telling everyone that he was gay.

They have sold the idea that everyone should do their share to sell the chocolates, and anyone who doesn’t should be punished. The idea of selling the chocolates has become the trend at the school. It is not Jerry’s course of action, however, and he becomes the outcast and gets punished by his peers in the end. The consequences that Jerry endures from his peers include : getting beat up by an unseen person at football practice, receiving prank phone calls at his home at all hours of the night, having his locker at school broken into and getting its contents destroyed, finding his art project that is due stolen from the teacher’s desk, and worst of all, getting seriously beaten up at a rigged school boxing fight. This shows the power of conformity and the human nature to conform.

Every week going to college and seeing their academics program helps to see how life would be after college if he doesn’t go to the NFL. You always want to have a plan b because at any moment that ball can deflate. Going to these colleges and seeing how many people would be in classes learning how it’s really not how people say it. The life lesson that I learn with my son and his football career is even though he doing what he loves he still need to have a backup plan and knowing what you want to do after football. What ever happen with football he still have family even when he feel like he can’t do it

Jerry Renault is the most memorable character in the Chocolate War. Jerry is a freshman in highschool and is one of the new kids who has to fight for his spot in school. Jerry is a kid that has to fight for his spot on the football team as being the quarterback of the football team. The football players pick on jerry during practice because the coach is testing him to see how much he can handle. Jerry is a shy kid but he has the determination to fight.

War comes and go, but the men that come out of it are changed. Stuck living the rest of their life in the mind of a solider. Stuck reliving the war causing their many disorders. Before they left for war they were boys. Boys just beginning to live life.

Then they decided to get Michael by his size and physical aspects in football program. The problem in this it’s that Michael was going to be the only black guy in the program. His willingness to get better and become someone in life was bigger than any obstacle there was in front of him. He decided to join and the whole family decided to go and watch him at his first practice. The Coach at first hates him since it’s his first time playing the game.

Goodell said, “There are risks in the lives of teenagers everyday, football is not one of them” (Kindelan and Conway). Supporters of football also claim “football really instill a sense of pride in kids who play in the community” (Tyler 16). However, the tough, manly persona that is “football culture” can lead to more problems. For instance players return to the field to quickly after sustaining injuries to appear tough.

“The Chocolate War” by Robert Cormier has many examples of that like how Jerry starts being targeted by the Vigils because he chooses to continue to not sell the chocolates after his assignment to not sell the chocolates for a week ended.

“Human nature is two things; greedy and cruel” In the novel The Chocolate war, one of the antagonists named Archie Costello has quoted this statement. This quote was referred to characters in the book, but it can also be talking about people in the real life. Because of what goes on in the modern day, greedy and cruel are just some words to describe the natural behavior of human beings. First off, in The Chocolate War, the whole purpose of the chocolate fundraiser was to raise money for the Trinity high school.

Biff’s idea of his father suddenly changed when Biff discovered his dad cheating on his mom. His entire outlook of life changed, and suddenly he no longer cared about his future in football or college. Willy raised Biff to think that being popular would get him further than having good grades: “Bernard can get the best marks in school y’understand but in the business world, y’understand, you are going to be five times ahead of him. That’s why I thank almighty God you’re both built like Adonises. Because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who created personal interest, is that man that gets ahead.”

Jack tries to make conversation and ask about their summers but gets the same result. He ends up just joining in on the laughter of someone else 's jokes. Jack starts to feel depressed on the inside and realizes that everything is going to be just like the other three years. NO! Jack says shaking his head, I still have football tryouts and I’m going to make it on the team this year and everyone for sure will know me then.

The book title is Top Prospect . Top Prospect is about a Student athlete in middle school named Travis he was the left-handed Quarterback of the team for is middle school football team . He was well prepared he had the mental part of the game of football but he didn 't have the fundamentals of the game of football . Traviesas coach made a promise with Travis so he would actually have something to put his all into that he wanted , so he has a goal to reach .

Many individuals experience different amounts of failure in their lifetimes. Many learn and grow from their defeats and others let it keep them from succeeding.   I made sure that failure was another obstacle to success. Icons like Randy moss didn’t let failure get the best of him when he didn’t make the freshman high school football team, and look at him now, he is one of the best Football players of all time.     

One of the players took the game so hard that he did not want to come together with the team. Coach Newton said to everyone,” Keep your heads up every one of us are winners in his book.” As I play football today the quote my coach gave me to keep in my head helps me with a lot. When I turned 17 I got the quote tattooed on my chest so if I am doing something and I try to give up it makes me grind harder. I never give up on something I love or like to do.

Due to his bad grades he went to a community college in hopes of getting his grades up and playing at the D1 level. After his 2 years at City