The Chocolate War Character Analysis

This shows that despite others he was able to accomplish what he wanted. Jerry’s acts of kindness showed his drive along with his ambition throughout the

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.

Robert Cormier wanted the characters be different, he did not make them how others wanted, being socially acceptable, he wrote the book how he thought it should have went in his mind, and doing so he gave the readers some new to read not just the everyday novel. Cormier gives the reader many examples of figurative language to express the real meaning of the story for example, “Caroni watched the chalk in Brother Leon’s hands, the way the teacher pressed it, rolled it, his fingers like the legs of spiders with a victim in their clutch.” (90) In this quote Cormier gives a similar to exaggerate about how Brother Leon was holding the chalk in his hands. It sends a powerful message to the reader that Brother Leon is a horrible man, who had no mercy and he is seen by others as a powerful administrator in the school using quid-pro-quo in his own evil type of way. Cormier also uses more figurative language to give a specific emotion that Cormier was trying to express throughout his novel, that not every time someone disturbs the universe something good comes out of it. “What happened with Renault was bad enough, but there was violence in the air.”(209) This quote is the the example that even though Renault did disturb the universe and did try to stop the chocolate sale, he failed and something bad happened to him for trying. In the end Jerry's attempts to stop the chocolate sales failed, and still there was still violence in the air meaning the enemy he tried to defeat was angry, but still undefeated. And many readers dislike Cormiers way to end the book in a way that the hero does not defeat the villain(s). Like Richard Peck said ”The young will understand the outcome. They won’t like it but they’ll understand.” (10) And this is exactly what Cormier had in mind when he was writing the book, that the readers wouldn’t like the ending, but

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 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’s job is a helicopter pilot that looks for news and stories for the television. While Jerry has been looking for stories for his news feed, he has saved many lives along the way. When someone saves a person, they are bringing others closer together. By saving lives, Jerry has brought others together in seeing how easy it is to get lost or lose your life in dangerous landforms or adverse conditions.

“You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel.” (Cormier, 241) This quote said by Archie in The Chocolate War shows us the type of person Archie is. This quote not only describes the type of person Archie is it describes Brother Leon as well. Archie and Brother Leon are both very manipulative between abusing their powers and doing wrong things. Archie is the Assigner of the Vigils and is in position of power which causes students the be afraid of him. Archie and Brother Leon are really similar characters in “The Chocolate War” by Robert Cormier, with examples like both being cruel to students and manipulative.

He is caring and troubled because he helped Jerry and got in trouble by Todd. He is caring because he helped Jerry calm down Bud said on #4 “little girls are going to treat you good”. He made him calm down by saying their going to treat you good.

The risk Jerry took is worth taking because the benefits of his accomplishment outweigh the risks. When jerry felt he can go through the tunnel, he wanted to become a man like the other older French boys. The motive of his risk is to be fearless and a brave man who could fight the danger and evade the risks. He prepared himself by practicing every day in the bay alone, he was aware of the risks he wanted to take, because every time during his practice, when he was practicing how to hold his breath he had chest pain and nose bleeding (line 202->216). He challenged himself by putting his life in danger to accomplish his goal to become a man, and he became the man he wanted, he fought the danger and evade the risk, he went through the tunnel risking

In the end, I feel Jerry tries to determine

In the short story Mother in Mannville the admirable qualities that Jerry does are Integrity, tough, and helpful. First, Jerry has Integrity because he is true to his word about doing things like cutting wood. Another reason is that be was true to his word about watching her dog and he did a really good job. Also when he first got there she thought he wasn't going to do as good as a bigger kid because of his size, but he actually did a good job. My evidence is “I could picture him at four, with the same grave gray-blue eyes and the same independence?

Jerry has not sold a single box of chocolates. He’s starting to get some attention from the Vigils and the other kids. Jerry is making the other kids not want to sell the boxes of chocolates.”’ I’m getting sick of selling stuff. Jeez, my father's starting to call me my son, the salesman.’...’ yeah i know what you mean. I’m getting tired of this selling crap. The kids probably go the right idea.’ Kevin agreed.”(cormier,113). Jerry is starting to be an idal to some of the teenagers at trinity. People at trinity are wanting to support jerry but the Vigils dislike the fact that more people are starting to define them. Carter ends up given money for the chocolate sales. In return no one is supporting jerry. The vigils are still pissed at jerry for defining them. “I won't sell the chocolates whether they beat me up or not. And i'm not a fairy, no a queer.”(cormier, 172). Jerry was just called a queer by janza. Jerry is starting to get what was coming to him for not selling the boxes of chocolate. Jerry put himself in a position that most people wouldn't want to be in. jerry is okay with being put in that place, he is willing to get beat up for sticking up for want is

The characteristic I thought was important that were addressed was the men expressing that they were feeling weak and how was the day. During the video Andrew mention that he felt self conscious around Jerry because he reminded him of his father which I believe this is a form of Transference. Interpretation of the transference relationship enables members to work through old conflicts that are keeping them fixated or keeps the wall up as Andrew referenced (Corey, 2013). Jerry was able to empathize with Andrew by putting himself in Andrew’s place in regards to subjective perception and emotions while keeping one’s objectivity (Gladding, 2012). By Andrew opening up it leads to Jyl expressing his feeling of weakness in regards to his

Even though the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a fictional story that is read by young children, many people in the story represent character traits that many people possess. Two of the main children in the story, Augustus Gloop and Veruca Salt, represent two very negative character traits. Augustus Gloop is a rude boy and is quite possibly the physical manifestation of greed and gluttony. Veruca Salt represents selfishness and all of the people who only are concerned with their own personal gain.