This portion of my reading (Chapters 22-29) opens up by talking about the chocolate sales once more, and how the sales are dropping significantly. Just when Jerry thought that the Goob, the football team, and him were clicking, Goober decides to quit. Goober's pretext for quitting the team was that there was some bad omen in the school, and Jerry suggested that, that omen might be The Vigils; Goober concurs. Tension rises between Archie and Brother Leon because the quota about doubled from the previous year. Brother Leon wants to use Archie because it is in his best interest to do so, since he is twenty grand in debt to the school. Leon suggests that Archie make The Vigils make Jerry sell his chocolates, and ultimately threatens him and The Vigils, that if the sales fall, then The Vigils will fall. Jerry was summoned and enticed some chocolates, Archie ended up assigning him to say yes during the roll call and accept the chocolates.
Quote:
"Everybody has to do things in this world they don't want to" (Cormier 172).
Reaction:
This quote jumped out at me primarily because I strongly agree with it and I believe that what it says is very true. However, Archie says this when he comes to the realization of as to why Jerry is being so adamant about not selling chocolates. This quote and the events that follow also revealed to me that Jerry is an existentialist. He had chosen to not take and sell chocolates, stuck with that decision, and at the end of the day he acknowledged that life was absurd. He made another choice as well, he decided to call all the Barrets in the phonebook in his endeavor to talk to that pretty girl. Nevertheless, he had made the call, taken a step, broken teh routine of his days and nights" (Cormier 177).
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