The Chocolate War Analysis

In the movie, The Voices, we meet Jerry Hickfang. Jerry appears like your regular quirky, new guy on the job. He has an innocent, childlike demeanor and always has a smile on his face who seems genuinely pleased to be working in the packing and shipping department of Milton Fixture and Faucet which is a bathtub factory. He lives above an abandoned bowling alley in the small Midwest town of Milton with his two pets, a cat named Mr. Whiskers, and a dog named Bosco. No one at the company except for his boss is aware that he sees a government assigned psychotherapist, Dr. Warren. His other coworkers register him as awkwardly eccentric and upbeat. He has no human friends, the only friends he has are his pets, which incidentally speak to him, but

Facts: Jerry Maguire has a moral epiphany and is fired by his co-worker Bob Sugar from SMI for expressing his opinions. Upon returning to the office Jerry tries to retain his clients, but is beat to the punch by Bob Sugar, who takes all of his clients including Kathy Sanders and John Swenson. Jerry loses all seventy-two of his clients but one, Rod Tidwell.

One minor conflict is between Jerry and his unresolved feelings toward his mother's death. These feelings, I felt, were mainly the reason he did not take the chocolates. Jerry is looking for a change in his life; a change to get him away from thinking of his mother. Another minor conflict is between Obie and Archie. Obie feels that he is always taking blame for Archie's doings. If Archie fails then Obie takes blame. If Archie succeeds then Archie gets the credit. Obie becomes angrier with each assignment Archie gives out.

Initially, our first thoughts of Jerry at the beginning of the story, is that he acts immature and is burdened within a circle of maternal protection. During the opening of the story, the author conveys Jerry’s relative childishness by labeling him as “the boy”. The author also uses the mother to demonstrate his youth and how he is trapped in a circle of maternal protection which leads us to think that he is lonely due to that reason. In this part, “His mother walks in front of him, carrying a bright white strap in one hand” tells us that because the mother was walking in front of him, it gives us the impression that the mother still thinks of him as a boy that needs to be protected from any potential harm. We see more of Jerry’s immaturity and how the burden of protection leads his actions as we go through the story. During the part where Jerry sees the group of boys acting free-spirited, we see that he is overcome with desire to be with them, probably because he feels that because he is always in the circle of protection making him feel lonely and isolated from everyone. At first, he is added into the group and begins to have fun jumping from the cliff into the water with the other boys. Later on however, he starts to act immature when he realizes he could not do the same thing the other boys were doing. That was, underwater for a long time and going through the dark tunnel and he becomes scared. In this passage,“... In a panic of failure, he yelled up, in English, “Look at me! Look!” and he began splashing and kicking the water like a

Jerry, despite his relative decency, is victimized by the power structure of the school as well as his peers (Bagnall). “Choosing to disturb the universe means that Jerry himself is thrown into chaos” (Junko). His refusal to conform makes him the prime target of both the Vigils and the school officials, despite admiration from his peers. Cormier makes it clear that moral individuals can not survive unaided in a corrupt, oppressive system (Harris et al.). Jerry, while standing up for what he believes is right, is constantly torn down and abused by Archie’s goons. No one, not even his best friend Goober, came to his rescue to combat his oppressors. Arguably, “the reason Jerry was not saved was because he stood alone” (Harris et al.). Jerry stood alone in refusing to take the chocolates, his abuse by the Vigils, and his eventual physical and mental destruction by Janza. In fact, his destruction makes him into a martyr. His surrender in the end makes him an even more realistic hero and shows that it takes more people to fight powerful figures (Peck). Cormier challenges the perception of the modern “Superman” figure and replaces him with an “Average Joe”: a jack of all trades but master at none. Despite his defeat, Jerry’s legacy will live beyond him, whether publicly celebrated or privately discussed by Trinity students (Siegler). Jerry’s battle could have been won if his peers acted against the power structures as

Jerry: Selfish to Selfless We can learn a lot from how Jerry set aside the signed glove for his family. Jerry from "President Cleveland, Where Are You?" by Robert Cornier is an important character who shows selfless in the face of his own desires after being stingy with his money even though it was his dad’s birthday. Through his actions he demonstrates the story’s theme of putting family or group goals before your own. Jerry displays selfishness in the beginning of “President Cleveland, Where Are You?”

Jerry is haunted by his unimportance. He is unable to regain his composure after he overplays his rebellious actions. Defying the Vigils and Trinity takes its toll. Although

The characterization of Jerry illustrates the stages of maturing and becoming independent. In the beginning of the story, Jerry is depicted as young and immature. The immaturity of Jerry is shown when he is trying to capture the older boys’ attention. In order to capture their attention, “he began splashing and kicking in the water like a foolish dog.” This action conveys that Jerry is still immature, and wants to join the older kids. After seeing the boys pass through the tunnel, Jerry also wants to pass through in order to be a part of their group. In order

Jerry is pushed beyond his limit when swimming through the tunnel and he struggled but persevered and kept swimming. After swimming for an unbearable amount of time, Jerry addresses that, “He was at the end of what he could do… [but] he must go on into the blackness ahead.” (Lessing 5). He acknowledged that he was being pushed out of his comfort zone but instead of giving up, he was determined to make it through. Dissimilarly, when Elizabeth was faced with the challenge of taking responsibility and owning up to her actions after striking out at Celia, she runs away, fearing retribution. After attacking Celia, Elizabeth experiences the feelings of guilt and fear, “…I ran as fast as I could…I was able to creep down to the girls’ washroom and quickly hide…I was so filled with horror…” (Huggan 80, 81). Elizabeth realized that she was going to face punishment for her actions but instead of accepting it she decided to run away from her problems. Jerry, displaying a growth mindset through his ability to conquer challenges, was able to successfully complete his goal. Elizabeth, demonstrating a fixed mindset, runs away from her challenges and faces consequences afterwards. Hence, having a growth mindset that is not afraid of challenges will accomplish more than having a fixed mindset that runs away from

Chapter 1 • Jerry Renault gets tackled multiple times on the football field, but he keeps getting back up to play • For a moment Jerry doubts his ability to be on the football team but the coach tells him to come back the next day • As Jerry goes to the locker room and feels his pain, he remembered his mother and the of her life •Jerry makes it back to school to get cleaned up but he vomits instead Chapter 2 •Obie and Archie argue about an assignment that list ten people •Archie is unable to be defeated in an arguements due to his "fast comebacks" •Archie is the leader of the vigils •Archie writes down Jerry's name to work for the chocolates Chapter 3 •Jerry feels nervous seeing/ reading a playboy magazine.

Jerry demonstrates how powerful the ability to choose your own actions is. Kevin; a future vigils member was talking to Danny about how they wanted the freedom to not sell the chocolates as shown is this quote. “‘I think maybe that Renault kid’s got the right idea...and said he wasn’t going to sell the junk...I'm getting sick of selling stuff...the kids probably got the right idea’”(Cormier,112). They envy jerry, that he doesn’t have to sell the chocolates. They also wish they had the guts to stop selling the chocolates. But not selling the chocolates does come with a price to pay. “‘I won’t sell their chocolates whether they beat me up or not, and I'm not a fairy, not a queer’”(Cormier,173).

Brother Leon won’t let you get away with it. “ By the end of the book Goober went to the rally when he was sick and tried to see if he could help Jerry possibly before it had begun or after it was over because he knew that he had no control of the unfolding events at the present time. At the very end of the book, after Jerry got beat up by Emile Janza, Goober helped Jerry and told him, “ Everything will be alright…” That was my idea of “good”, hole-hearted, honest, loyal, polite, and most of all a person who helps people when they are in need of help. Goober displayed those traits within the choices and responsibilities that he had throughout the book. Those are the qualities that I found very appealing and admirable. I admire him to the fullest extent and I would probably do the same thing if I were in hiss position.

Jerry being the small mouse he is, will always find ways to get around Tom to get the food. Tom, is always trying to lay out traps to catch Jerry. Most of the time, Jerry will avoid the traps and make a run for it, which leads to Tom chasing him. In all of the episodes, both Tom and Jerry, will end up getting flattened by something bigger than they are, or running into the wall that leaves the viewers laughing at the goofy characters. Sadly, Tom isn’t always safe from danger.

Jerry tries to act older so that he can fit in with the boys. When

In Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ “A Mother in Mannville,” Jerry is a round character and is a boy of integrity. Even though he is young and undersized, he shows many qualities and traits as a protagonist to accomplish his tasks. His first personal quality is a responsibility. The story stated, “An astonishing amount of solid wood had been cut…When I left my bed in cool morning, the boy had come and gone.” In the first day Jerry, has finished the amount of work even though no one supervised for him. Also, he woke up early in the morning and came to the cabin to complete his duty. Second trait that Jerry has is considerate and thoughtful. He fed and exercised the narrator’s dog for an extra day when he thought the narrator’s return would be belated