The Chocolate War: Bad guy wins Many stories have been told time and time again, and of those stories the good guy usually wins; but the chocolate war doesn’t play by normal rules of storytelling. Throughout the novel, we see Jerry put up with so much crap. We see him stand up for himself. We see him do what he wants. We see him make his own way and follow it. Naturally, we’d expect him to win in in the end. Well he doesn’t, he gets his ass handed to him and his face smashed to a pulp by Emile Janza. And the main culprit behind it all? Archie Costello. He doesn’t get hurt, he doesn’t get expelled, and he doesn’t get in trouble. All he really gets is a little scolding, which he’s saved from by Brother Leon. In truth Jerry was our protagonist, …show more content…
He operates behind the crowd, allowing others to do his bidding. Such as how he has Janza to demean Jerry. He has Janza call Jerry a queer which is meant to demean Jerry. Although Janza takes it too far when Janza has children beat Jerry up, it shows that Archie has made to where he wouldn’t be placed at the scene if they were to get caught. “Did you use the queer pitch on him?” “You were right, Archie. You called it Beautiful. That really spaced him out.” Pg 211 chapter …show more content…
He is shown to prepare things so that he is the only one who gets away with no repercussions. Or going as far as to blame others and use them to take the fall. Archie has developed himself to be the truth epithet of a villain. His ability at getting away even upsets one of his “friends” Obie. Obie is upset often that Archie doesn’t get into trouble for anything that happens and is merely chastised or not even thought of as the culprit at all. “Someday, Archie,” Obie said, a warning in his voice, “someday……” Pg 251 Chapter thirty