Summary
For the past few days, the chocolate sales around the school have gone up, and Brian is very happy and can not wait to tell Brother Leon. But Brian wasn't sure why the sales had gone up, but he had a feeling that the Vigils had something to do with the sales going up. He had seen some members of the Vigils talk to kids in the hallways and he was sure they were talking about the chocolate sales. Carter, the head of the Vigils, was talking to Brian about the sales and they began talking about the sales. When Brother Leon returned, they totaled the chocolate sales and discovered that they had sold most of the chocolate boxes. Thsi made Brother Leon very happy, and he finally called Brian by his first name and Brian got a lot of cheers when we entered the auditorium, and that made him feel like a football hero. Brother Leon was reading the names of the students that he thought had sold a lot of chocolates, even though they hadn't sold even one chocolate, when he read Jerry's name. Jerry then like always answered with a no. All of a sudden, a student named Harold Darcy decided to ask why wasn't Jerry selling the chocolates. Was it because he thought he was better than everybody else? But Jerry that Brother Leon had said in the beginning of the sale that it was all voluntary and he didn't want to sell any. Later on the day, The Goober learned that he eventually had sold the fifty boxes, but eh didn;t want those boxes to be sold because he wanted to support Jerry, but eh couldn't get in trouble so he didn't say anything. But he felt bad and on his way to his locker he was crying. When Jerry left from practice, he realized that Emile Janza was was calling him. Janza was telling Jerry that he was staying inside a closet and another group of guys approached Jerry and began to punch him and kick him. Eventually, they left and Jerry went home. He decided to take a shower so that nobody would see that he had bee beat up. In chapter 33, we learn that Janza beat Jerry up because he wanted to become part of teh Vigils, and this is what Arcie had told him to do. Later the Vigils call a meeting after school. Jerry had to fight against Janza to get revenge, but they had to fight by the Vigils rules. Carter would be pulling a piece of paper from a cardboard box which ahd directions to what Jerry was going to to do Janza or Janza was going to do to Jerry. They were punching each other and then Janza began to beat Jerry up even though Carter didn't pick a card. Jerry then was in the floor protecting himself but he was badly hurt. The Goober was watching the fight and once the lights went out, he went to help Jerry get up. Jerry had a broken jaw and while he is on the abulance on his way to the hospital, and Archie tells Brother Jacques that the chocolates had all been sold, but this had been Jerry's punishment for refusing to sell the chocolates.
Quotes
"The platform was brilliantly lit again, like an operating table, but the stadium was almost empty, a few curious stragglers still hanging around. Bitterly, Goober had watched the guys leaving, chased away by Brother Jacques and a couple of other faculty members." (Cormier 258).
Response
I felt really sad when I read this part. I knew that a lot of people didn't like Jerry because he wasn't selling the chocolates, but I never thought that even the teacher were not going to help him when he was in trouble. When he was getting beat up all that Brother Jacques and Brother Leon did, was just stare at him and leave after the Vigils. This shows the power that the Vigils had over a full school, made of both students and teachers.
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