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Aug 30 '10
Pros: Intense story and effective characters.
Cons: It is very disturbing and dark.
Summary: When I started reading this book, I was wondering to myself about why this book was banned in so many schools. Now, I know why. “The Chocolate War” is a popular young adult book by Robert Cormier and it is about how ... read more
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Mar 28 '12
Pros: Dark and intriguing.
Cons: I didn't like the book's "voice".
Summary: What a strange, disturbing little book. I honestly have very mixed feelings about it. And not for the disturbing parts, I actually liked those. What I didn't really like about this book was the style of the writing, which is probably ... read more
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Feb 11 '08
Pros: Exposes the harsh reality behind the easy platitude of being true to yourself.
Cons: Like the Police's "Every Breath You Take", its creepiness is often misinterpreted.
Summary: It had been nearly ten years since the publication of his last novel when Robert Cormier unleashed what would become his most famous book, The Chocolate War, in 1974. And what a decade it had been, encompassing both the ... read more
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Sep 16 '03
Pros: Deals with still relevant teenage issues
Cons: Very dark and downbeat
Summary: In 1974, a then little known author, Robert Cormier published a young adult novel that was to arouse a huge amount of controversy, even as it went to become a classic. In a world where young adult literature is mostly junk depicting adolescence as an ide ... read more
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Aug 20 '02
Pros: Dark and gritty, unconventional, and atmospheric
Cons: Only that it is not perfect.
Summary: When I first read the Chocolate War, it wasn't under the best of situations. It was a mandatory read for English class, and it looked like just the book they would give out: slow, unwitty, and boring. Of course, a few of these "assigned" books become ... read more
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Mar 29 '01
Pros: This author has a great 3rd person omniscient writing style.
Cons: Very Objectionable
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The Chocolate War's Plot is centered around a boy named Jerry Renault, who is a freshman that attends Trinity Highschool. At Trinity High the young men are asked to sell
boxes of chocolate as an annual fund raiser. No body has ever ... read more
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Dec 11 '00
Pros: Some funny parts
Cons: Had no real turning point. Boring
Summary: Hello, I am doing something that I have never done before. I am posting a book report of a book. This was due to my English class last week. I hope you think it's good because if you think its bad than that gives me an idea of what my grade it. Thanks ... read more
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Nov 26 '00
Pros: Good story
Cons: Questionable messages, violent
Summary: My first encounter with The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier, was a few years ago, when my brother was assigned to read it for school. I had remember hearing something about a bit of a controversy surrounding it, some parents wanting to ban it ... read more
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Nov 16 '00
Pros: Great characterization, plot, and theme.
Cons: I'd like it to be a little longer because it's such a great book.
Summary: The first thing you should know about The Chocolate War is that it is not a book that leaves you feeling warm and fuzzy at its conclusion. But, oftentimes, life does not leave you feeling warm and fuzzy at the end of the day. This outcome makes neither ... read more
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Nov 15 '00
Pros: well-written, we can see into the characters, ther's many things happening at one time - several plotlines
Cons: a very dark story but still good
Summary: The Chocolate War is about high school students with nothing to believe in. Even though they all go to a Catholic School religion is not very important to anyone there including the teachers. So it is no surprise when by the end of the book one of the ... read more
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Jun 18 '00
Pros: Important book for our contemporary society
Cons: Negative, violent scenes
Summary: The depravity of the institutions of religion and education is one of the major factors that causes the conformity in The Chocolate War to exist, mainly because this corruption destroys the outlets to which the protagonist, Jerry Renault, and the ... read more
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Nov 27 '99
Pros: shows real life situation
Cons: none
Summary: This is a book you can compare to everyday life. It shoe prime example of the two three types of people: the leaders, the followers, and the bystanders. There is a chocolate sell that is going on in the school as there is every year. It is expected of ... read more
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May 16 '05
Pros: that it a good political book
Cons: that it some way of boring.
Summary: It all started out when Jerry Renault try out for the football team. The coach want him to come back after the beating that he had get.The Goober's disintegration after carrying out his assignment, the beatings Jerry takes during and after football
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