One of Robert Cormier's top-selling novels is "The Chocolate War." His own son inspired this novel; his son refused to participate in selling chocolates at his school. The Chocolate War is about a boy named Jerry Renault who attends The Trinity, an all-boy Catholic school. Each year the school is to sell chocolates as a fund-raiser. Accepted as an assignment from "The Vigils," the respectable high school gang, Jerry refuses to sell the chocolates for ten days. It appears that after the ten days are up Jerry still refuses to sell chocolates by his own will. Jerry is more than a freshman, he is a hero to many who stands up for what he believes in, and many students start to realize this. The book continues on and demonstrates how life doesn't always go as planned, but you still shouldn't give up no matter what the case may be.…
This book is based on Claude browns childhood during the 1940’s and 1950’s. his childhood was very bizarre and highly stressful in my opinion. he doesn’t really know what he wants in life. There are a lot of bad influences around him and unfortunately he does get dragged into a lot of…
The book begins with 15 year old boy named Charlie writing letters to an unknown recipient about his life. He discusses how he is beginning high school and his fear of it because his only friend, Michael, committed suicide the year before.…
Touching Spirit Bear, a book about a young teenage boy, Cole Matthews, is a lively story penned by Ben Mikaelsen. This is the story of a young troubled teen who finds himself in major trouble after physically damaging another boy, Peter Driscal. Cole finds himself getting banished to an island by himself for a year. He does not apprehend the extremity of this situation because he always was in power, and was feared in any given environment. Cole only spent a slight amount of time on the island though, a few days. This may have failed the attempt of the elders and village peoples to change his perspective of life. Even though cole now understands emotions and wrong doings, he does not fully understand the whole purpose of this trip.…
What is your assessment of Marilyn’s promotional efforts? In order for Marilyn to increase the sale of her chocolates, what should she do with her marketing program (product line, distribution, pricing, advertising, selling, events, PR, sales promotion, online marketing)?.…
Tim Burton’s film Charlie and the chocolate factory displays the negative aspects of the protagonist…
“The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs and “The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken vastly incorporate the element of theme throughout the course of the story. For example, “The Monkey’s Paw” illustrates the consequences of greed. For instance, the Whites were given the opportunity to make three wishes with the monkey’s paw. With this, the family wished for two hundred pounds, in hopes of clearing their house. “‘I wish for two hundred pounds,’ said the old man distinctly” (Jacobs 109). Wishing for money proves that the Whites are greedy and only hope for fortune. The family’s cupidity resulted in Herbert's death, proving that acquisitive behaviors are followed by negative outcomes. Another theme emphasized throughout the story in the inevitability of fate.…
The Chocolate War’s problematic audience has surged from schools ranging from grades six through tenth. Because of the themes it touches on such as bullying, what makes a hero, and loneliness, many concerned parents and faculty members have opted to ban the book in their schools district. For example, Mr. Wolfe, a concerned father who urged the Broken Arrow in Oklahoma's board of education to…
The book, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, is about a boy named Charlie entering the 9th grade. He had just experienced the trauma of his best friend killing himself, and on top of that was still saddened by the death of his aunt Helen. On the first day of school he only made one friend, his English teacher. A little later on he became friends with two seniors, a boy named Patrick and his step-sister Sam. They continued on to show Charlie their world of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, their many intriguing friends, the tunnel in which he felt, what he calls, infinite, and much, much more. He still looked back to the passing of his aunt and was depressed for almost all of the time, until he was introduced to the world of drugs, cigarettes and drinking. He had always been in love with Sam since the day they met but never got the chance to date her, due to the fact of age difference, and that she wasn't interested in someone so meek and shy. But she ended up being his first kiss and, right before she left for college, they went a little farther. But as they were, Charlie didn't like it because it reminded him of his aunt Helen. And that’s when he remembered that she molested him as a child.…
“A sergeant major is in possession of a monkey’s paw that appears to be magic. The paw allows him to make three wishes, but for a price. Every time he makes a wish death takes someone in return. The lesson or theme takes place in these aforementioned sentences. The theme is to be careful what you wish for. Foreshadowing is in this whole subsection, a man has a monkey’s paw and he gets to make three wishes. But if he does make a wish, someone will die in return. He does get his wish, but this wish takes course in the death process. In the story, the father makes a wish and the son dies in a terrible accident at work. In the occurrence the son’s employees felt sorry for the father’s family therefore giving him 100,000…
The Chase shows the likeness between kids and their adult counterparts through analyzing the differing reactions to exact situations. The happiness seems to be the main focus, yet the sadness that is uncovered through the inevitable down-hill slide of the emotions that the child experienced as she realized that the sadness and come-back-to-earth feelings were inevitable and there was no way to make the feeling last forever. She fell out of her own world abruptly and the man showed them that now everyone cherishes their inner child and the burden of adult responsibility that squashes or suppresses the subconscious child. The children do their duty and listen to the man and know that this is how it is “supposed” to be and any other reaction would be “wrong” in the sense that there is a stencil for every situation to fall in to and the excess was unacceptable. The child realizes that this is inevitable, there is no way she can avoid it and wishes to cherish what she has access to now before she loses all connection to that part of herself. This is not encouraging children to find or go looking for trouble, but to cherish the moments they have and live life to the fullest while abiding by their…
It 's a fascinating story of industrial and social development - the story of a small family business growing up, and joining with others, to become an international world leader. A story of technical invention and secret recipes, marketing savvy and the creation of great brands. A story of people who are passionate, principled, pioneering and just love confectionery.…
The novel tells the story of the children becoming orphans and having to leave their home. Their parents are killed in a plane crash and the three children must leave the countryside to live with their uncle in London. Uncle Phillip owns a toyshop and is a toymaker himself. The orphans do not know anything about him; Melanie’s only memory of him is that when she was a little girl he made her a jack in the box which was very scary. They do not know that the world they are about to enter is radically different from the one they lived in until now.…
Lois Lowry wrote an award Winning book called "The Giver", the story is based on a dystopian world were no one is able to make their own choices and their emotions are controlled.The story is about a boy named Jonas who is chosen to be a receiver, and receives memories from the Giver. Jonas notices what's happening in the memories and how wonderful some are, but he is also shown the truth behind being released, very very cruel, the way they kill innocent people Jonas just does not like that. Jonas and The Giver decided that everyone in the community needs to know the truth. They made a plan to escape the community and leak the memories, Jonas set off on a journey. This story is about taking risks and making choices, because mostly everyone in the story makes a choice that decides their fate.…
The use of touchscreen technology to control electronic devices pre-dates multi-touch technology and the personal computer. Early synthesizer and electronic instrument builders like Hugh Le Caine and Robert Moog experimented with using touch-sensitive capacitance sensors to control the sounds made by their instruments.[6] IBM began building the first touch screens in the late 1960s, and, in 1972, Control Data released the PLATO IV computer, a terminal used for educational purposes that employed single-touch points in a 16x16 array as its user interface.…