The Chocolate War, Blog Week of 10/12 - 10/16

The Chocolate War By: Robert Cormier

John Zalazinski

  10/14/2015

Prompt(s): Are the characters realistic? Why or why not?

Jerry Renault (main character) is a realistic character. He is a student at a catholic school "Trinity" and he is on a football team. Literally millions of people in the country can match that description. The fact that he also doesn't want to sell the chocolate, shows some type of rebellious attitude which a bunch of teenagers have. He feels guilt and anger like anybody else, he is not emotionless, because that would make the book very boring. Emotions need to be expressed in order for him to be a realistic character, and he met that criteria.

Obie is a realistic character. This shows immediately in chapter two, when he is having a love/hate relationship with a another student, Archie. He envies him but admires him at the same time which is really weird. Obie even jots down notes on Archie about whatever angers him or one of the reasons he admires Archie. 

Archie is a realistic character. He is one of those classic "perfect" guys. He is making people do favors for him like a king, and has blonde hair that he can toss in any direction. Despite all of that, he still has flaws like everyone in the real world, for example he not the best at completing assignments, "These god**** assignments. Do they think it's easy?" This can also connect to a lot of people in this class, may or may not including me.