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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the The Chocolate War Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Conformity - I am assuming that by the chocolate group, you mean those...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Conformity - I am assuming that by the chocolate group, you mean those selling the chocolate.  Basically, they preach conformity and everyone that does not conform is an outcast.  When Brother Leon enlists the help of the Vigils, he sets in motion a chain of events that shows the dangerous of conformity.  Even through Jerry is at first commanded by the Vigils not to sell the chocolates for the first days of the sale, eventually he makes the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:11:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This story is written in 3rd person limited point of view.  The...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/what-point-view-from-which-story-told-28661</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This story is written in 3rd person limited point of view.  The narrator is not a single character, but some speaker outside the story that is telling the audience what is happening.  It is possible with 3rd person to focus on the thoughts of many different characters, giving the audience the perspective of different people.  3rd person limited, however, limits the audience's exposure to only the thoughts of a single character.  Jerry, the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:46:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the point of view from which the story &quot;The Chocolate...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/what-point-view-from-which-story-told-28661</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the point of view from which the story &quot;The Chocolate War&quot; is told?&#160;]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:57:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[By introducing Obie at the same time he introduces Archie Costello, the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/why-meeting-obie-chapter-two-significant-careful-23895</link>
        <description><![CDATA[By introducing Obie at the same time he introduces Archie Costello, the author provides the reader up front with an understanding of the power Archie holds over the student body at large, a concept that is central to the development of the story.  Obie, who is symbolic of the anonymous, average student and as such has no last name, is disgusted by his own mindless compliance to Archie's caprices and yet cannot help but adhere to his every...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 22:40:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why is meeting Obie in Chapter two a significant and careful plot...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/why-meeting-obie-chapter-two-significant-careful-23895</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why is meeting Obie in Chapter two a significant and careful plot construction in &quot;The Chocolate War&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 07:57:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cormier died in November, 2000, at age 75.]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/when-did-robert-cormier-die-19335</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Cormier died in November, 2000, at age 75.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:26:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When did Robert Cormier die?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/when-did-robert-cormier-die-19335</link>
        <description><![CDATA[When did Robert Cormier die?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:48:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does the chocolate group preach?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/what-does-this-chocolate-group-preaches-18317</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What does the chocolate group preach?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:09:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Archie is powerful because of the perfect match between his character...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/what-makes-archie-powerful-14719</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Archie is powerful because of the perfect match between his character and the situation. The situation is a closed community, with a history of power struggles and games, and of teacher/student and student/student clashes. It's a very charged microcosm. Into that world comes Archie, who is largely immoral, or at least a-moral, and willing to do just about anything to pursue his whims. He's willing to be very cruel, he's inventive, he's willing...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:57:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What makes Archie so powerful in &quot;The Chocolate War&quot;?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/what-makes-archie-powerful-14719</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What makes Archie so powerful in &quot;The Chocolate War&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:57:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Well, on a biographical level, the entire plot/conflict is sparked by...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/what-an-inciting-moment-central-conflict-chocolate-6179</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Well, on a biographical level, the entire plot/conflict is sparked by the author's son's decision not to sell chocolates for his school. However, if you mean within the novel itself, it is similar; everything unfolds from Jerry deciding not to sell the chocolates. This happens in Chapter 13. There are more violent conflicts, such as the brutal final fight, but they all start from this.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:26:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Sure, we could talk about the cultural context a bit. Broadly...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/have-trouble-finding-cultural-context-this-book-14635</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Sure, we could talk about the cultural context a bit. Broadly speaking, a cultural context means looking not just at the story and what happens in it, but also examining the time period, society, and location in which it occurs, and how these factors influence the story. It's the difference between looking at just an individual and looking at things like his or her nationality, generation, etc. This book is set at school, and was published...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 3 Jan 2008 18:00:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain the cultural context of &quot;The Chocolate War.&quot;]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/have-trouble-finding-cultural-context-this-book-14635</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Explain the cultural context of &quot;The Chocolate War.&quot;]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 3 Jan 2008 17:40:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jerry's main thoughts could be that he refuses to give in.  As a high...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/what-jerrys-thoughts-6269</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Jerry's main thoughts could be that he refuses to give in.  As a high school student I am sure that you encounter alot of peer pressure.  At times you may find that you are pressuring yourself because you want to fit in; you want to do what all the other kids are doing.  The Vigils could be compared to your typical high school &quot;in crowd&quot;.  Because they were considered (by themselves) to be the popular kids, they believed that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:11:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living. The...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/how-would-you-say-quot-assignment-quot-that-goober-13501</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living. The assignment was a critical point in Goober's life because it forced him to wake up, look at his life, and face the real world. Before the assignment, he lived the idyllic life of a child. &quot;Things were simple and uncomplicated...everything seemed beautiful...the entire world attainable&quot; (Chapter 8). The assignment forced Goober to examine himself, and although he...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:26:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Goober is very important.  He represents a boy standing between the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/how-would-you-say-quot-assignment-quot-that-goober-13501</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Goober is very important.  He represents a boy standing between the path of &quot;right&quot; and the path of &quot;wrong&quot;.  He wants to do right.  He wants to stand up to the Vigils, and readers are given the impression that he just might be an ally to Jerry.  But the assignment he gets, and then decides to complete, works like a cancer on him.  In destroying Brother Leon's office, Goober not only does something wrong, but he helps...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:52:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To be cancerous is to be destructive.  But unlike a fire that destroys...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/school-trinidy-was-discribed-cancerous-d-like-13755</link>
        <description><![CDATA[To be cancerous is to be destructive.  But unlike a fire that destroys from the outside, cancer destroys from the inside.  This was happening at Trinity.  The actions of the Vigils were slowly chipping away at the integrity of the school.  It was becoming a place where no single person was safe from corruption, just like no cell in the human body is safe from being corrupted by cancer.  The corruption was based in power in fear - the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:43:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ The school Trinity was described as cancerous. I'd like to know...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The school Trinity was described as cancerous. I'd like to know exactally what he was talking about. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:21:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I hope you people konw that there is a second one...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/group/discuss/necessary-end-chocolate-war-333#2</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I hope you people konw that there is a second one...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:37:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How would you say the &quot;Assignment&quot; that the Goober received...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/chocolate-war/q-and-a/how-would-you-say-quot-assignment-quot-that-goober-13501</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How would you say the &quot;Assignment&quot; that the Goober received changed him?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:34:25 PST</pubDate>
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