The Chocolate War

The protagonist of Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War is freshman Jerry Renault who attends Trinity High School in New England. Every year the school holds a fundraising event by offering chocolate bars for sale. When Jerry is presented with his task of selling 50 bars, he refuses to participate in the traditional sale. Jerry's steadfast refusal to participate stems from his individualism and his motto that hangs inside his school locker, "Do I dare disturb the universe," a line from T. S. Eliot's poetry (Cormier, 1986, p. 129). The message is on a poster that shows a solitary figure that appears insignificant to the magnitude of his environment.

Jerry's refusal to sell chocolates appears to disturb the universe, at

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