Robert Cormier's book The Chocolate War

A wonderful theme for this book would have to be courage. First chapter tells about Jerry a character who has the courage to stand up for the physical pain in football practice and inside the locker-room. Jerry's mother also died, and he has had a lot of courage to keep going with the emotional pain.


The football teams decided to do a sale for fundraising, so they voted on a chocolate sale. All of the students agreed to do it except Jerry, the difficult hard headed one. That shows a sign of courage standing up for himself by saying no to something he did not want to do.

Robert Cormier's writing style is different then the way most authors write their books. Having lots of profanity and several bold references to sexual activities. Also having a variety of profound words used in the writing of this book to help explain the way their emotional were. He could have left out these parts and most likely still have a really good book. There are also quite a few references to masturbation and guys fantasies about females in ways that should not be said in this book. Rude comments to and about females.

A Chocolate War compares to the real life of today. Kids having to take stand for themselves because of other students or even teachers, some ways can be good as of other ways being not so much on the good side. Many kids want to rebel against pretty much anything anything that adults want to be done. Jerry its really a rebel but he is just not going to do the chocolate sale with the others.

I recommend this book to others who enjoy fun and exciting books but also if you do not mind reading about sexual refrences and they profanity that is used. This is a book that even I might just have to read again.