Review
Cormier, Robert., The Chocolate War, Random House Children Books, New York, New York., 1974, 0440944597
Robert Cormier did a fairly good job capturing a high school student’s life. The author addressed activities the high school students are faced with such as extra curricula activities and extra issues such as peer pressure. Jerry is a high school football player, and Archie is the head of a group or society club called the vigils who runs the school, this group wants to sale a great deal of chocolate. Jerry is pressured into joining them and selling chocolate, but he does not want to be a part of this. Cormier perfectly presents real life drama of high school students, but lacked some detail of the characters. Cormier did display true to life activities such as not so good language, stealing, verbal and physical abuse among peers. The author engages the reader by revealing a small amount of the plot at a time make the reader want to continue reading. This book was full of many turns through by offers a great reality look at bullying and personal identity. This is a good read for ages 13 and up. This book was a bit hard to get into and follow at first however due to the slow development it keeps the reader’s attention.
Responsive Activity - Think about a bullying situation for you or someone you know three fold a sheet of paper and list What you/ someone else did?, What you wanted to do about the situation? And what should you have done?
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