The Chocolate War Summary
Robert Cormier

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier Robert Cormier, born in Leominster, Massachusetts, in 1925, would later raise a family of three daughters and a son there. During his adolescence, Robert Cormier... Read more

Biography Essay"Teen-agers' Laureate," the title conferred upon Robert Cormier by Tony Schwartz in Newsweek (16 July 1979), is fittingly bestowed upon this widely read and critically acclaimed author ... Read more

Robert Cormier began his life in the French-Canadian section of Leominster, Massachusetts on January 17, 1925. "We lived in a three-story tenement. I remember my mother and father heating up the water... Read more

[This entry was updated by Sylvia Patterson Iskander (University of Southwestern Louisiana) from her entry in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, pp. 34-51.]"Teen-agers' L... Read more

Critical Essay by Pelorus [The Chocolate War] will surely be one of those books that sweep through teenage readers with the fervent interest that Catcher in the Rye roused in its day…. I&#x... Read more

Critical Essay by Bruce Clements There is a striking similarity between the end of Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War and the end of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. In both works the hero... Read more

Critical Essay by Theodore Weesner ["The Chocolate War"], written for teen-agers but a strong read for adults, is a story with a highly serious message not only about the usurpation and... Read more

Critical Essay by Margery Fisher The Chocolate War, a brutal, forthright study in violence, ends in doubt—one might say, in an inglorious draw. Presumably the author was not evading an ending ... Read more

Critical Essay by Stanley Ellin In two justly admired novels, "The Chocolate War" and "I Am the Cheese," Robert Cormier has dealt with the betrayal of youth, creating land... Read more

"My Name is Jerry Renaults and I"m not going to sell the chocolates", Jerry says aloud in his empty apartment. Chocolates, we are talking about chocolates. What is the big deal? They are just a sim... Read more

In this essay, I am going to wrote about the role and structure of The Vigils in Rober Cormier's `The Chocolate War.' The plot is about how freshman, Jerry Renault, starts to rebel against `The System... Read more