Jerry Renault is a Fourteen year old kid who goes to Trinity High School where the school is practically run and owned by the school gang called the Vigils. Most of the kids in the school are in the Vigils. A school tradition is to send non-Vigil students off on crazy "assignments" that are made to annoy the teachers and to give the Vigils a good laugh. One day, Jerry gets an assignment from the …
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…like a rebel against the whole school. So then Archie convinces Jerry to fight a Vigil member named Emile. Archie organizes the fight and he organizes it so that the whole school will be there watching. In the fight, Jerry gets knocked out and Brother Leon comes in and stops the fight. Jerry then admits to Goober that he was all wrong and that he should have just followed the Vigils. Bibliography The Chocolate War