The classic novel, "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier, begins with the novel's main protagonist, Jerry Renault, playing at a school football game. During the game, an unknown assailant attacks him with something violently. He is briefly injured from his fall. He proceeds to get up after he has recovered, but he is attacked several more times. After the game, he proceeds to the bathroom, which his injuries make him vomit.
Later in the novel, Jerry's school is preparing to do its annual chocolate sale. The Vigils, a group of students who intimidate other students into doing what they please, order Jerry to reject selling the chocolates for the first ten days of the chocolate sale. Jerry does so, but after the tenth day, he continues to say