The school bully, Barry Bagsley, teases him about his name. He tries to avoid Barry and acts invisible but swears to stand up to Barry in Year Nine. His Year Nine teacher, Miss Tarango, tells the whole class about the name Ishmael coming from Moby-Dick, which gives Barry and his friends more names to tease Ishmael with. Ishmael later intervenes when he sees Barry and his friends tease a younger boy from Year Four. A new boy called James Scobie becomes a target for bullying because of his appearance.
He pushes her away so she does not make a scene and Millie insists and places her hand under the pillow. She feels the outline of the book and is shocked. Although she doesn't turn her husband in, Millie asks Beatty what would happen if a fireman brought a book home. Beatty mentions firemen are occasionally overcome by curiosity about the books they burn and may steal one to satiate that curiosity. When this happens, he continues, they are given a 24-hour respite to come to their senses and burn the book before their coworkers must do so for them.
Goober is also a football player at Trinity High School, but he drops out of football and all other activities when he finds out the people in the school begin to hate Jerry. He dropped out to protest their mean behavior to Jerry. The Vigils assigned Goober the task of unscrewing all the screws in room 19. Another character in the Chocolate War is Archie. Archie is the assigner of the Vigils.
As the authority takes the boys in a dark room, as the camera zooms out with the boys scramming allows the responder to realize the situation the boys are in. All of the negative effect and the power used by the authority on the four boys, left Reilly and Marcano unable to cope with society, who were “Haunted by our experience” and became the “Hills Kitchens titman” similar to Tyson. They end up taking their revenge on Sean Nokes and both die due of a drug overdose at an early age from the treatment of the institution. Other two boys Sullivan and Gerizo also were “Haunted by our experience: but used the strict violet treatment from the institution to conform
Although thoroughly "institutionalized” Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside world. Prior to his release, he is interviewed by a local college newspaper reporter, to whom he recounts the brutal murder of his mother and her boyfriend with a sling blade. Karl continues, saying that he killed the man because he thought he was raping his mother. When he discovered that his mother was a willing participant in the affair, he killed her too. 1.
At 11:20 they decided something had gone wrong. Instead of picking off any survivors from afar, because, “Their original plan had failed”, so, “the boys decided to go into the school (Columbine Massacre).” They had two pipe bombs blow up at about the same time a few blocks away. “Engine 13, normally the unit closest to Columbine High, was sent to investigate the explosion and to extinguish the resulting brush fire,” (Emmitsburg 9). As the two boys were about to enter the school, a single policeman arrived and the three got into a firefight. None of them was injured, and at 11:25, Klebold and Harris entered the school.
A Personal Choice The Chocolate War is a novel written by Robert Cormier. The novel starts off with the introduction of the school’s fundraiser—every student volunteering to sell at least fifty boxes of chocolates—of the all boys’ Trinity High School. Under the direction of Brother Leon, who has become the replaced headmaster, boys are virtually pressured into selling the amount of boxes assigned. However, when a freshman, Jerry Renault, decides to stand against the sales, the whole order of things in the school is demolished. Although it is at first forced upon him as an Assignment from the Vigils, a group feared throughout the school, Jerry later defies them and the sale by continuing to refuse to sell anything.
He was quoted as saying, "they ALL mocked and slaughtered my self esteem it got so bad I had to turn to drugs." Only days after Thanksgiving, Carneal walked into school with his arsenal of weapons and opened fire killing two students (Newman 26-27). Another example from the book is that of Andrew Williams of Santee, CA. Similar to Carneal, Williams was harassed and teased because of his scrawny appearance. He seemed to take this in stride though, however, on the inside he was being destroyed.
The next day I was supposed to see my dad after he had his spinal surgery, I was so hung-over I passed out after taking a shower. I’ve never felt so horrible in my life knowing I let my mom and dad down. In the middle of junior year I got into I fight because I male student in my class called me a very horrible name. I got suspended for two days because I punched him in the face a couple times and had to get pulled off of him by three teachers, that was the first time I’ve ever got
“What are you doing getting up before you’ve finished? Stay behind after school!” Mr Cairney begins being cruel by striking his right hand with his strip repeatedly. To expose his full cruelty, Cairney made the past pupil pick up muck outside with the same beaten hand. Lay helps me understand that Cairney’s power to be cruel was only used when exploiting the weak. At no stage did he use his power to go against someone much stronger than himself throughout the text.