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"The viewpoints that follow examine peer pressure, and particularly bullying, in The Chocolate War, exploring many facets of the novel. Critics offer divergent views about whether Cormier presents an outlook that is bleak and desolate or realistic but hopeful. In addition, several viewpoints address peer pressure, conformity, and bullying in twenty-first-century America, examining cause sand possible methods of prevention."
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Archie is the brains of a society of thugs in sport coats called the Vigils. The Vigils have gained power over their fellow students and faculty by using intimidation. They meet their match in new student, Jerry Renault. Jerry refuses to participate in the school's annual fund-raising chocolate sale event. Brother Leon, the school's sadistic headmaster, makes a pact with the Vigils to sell 20,000 boxes of chocolates so he can be promoted to head of...
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