Beyond The Chocolate War

Beyond The Chocolate War

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name = Beyond The Chocolate War
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author = Robert Cormier
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Young adult novel
publisher = Alfred A. Knopf
pub_date = 1985
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media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 253 pp
isbn = ISBN 0394829431
preceded_by = The Chocolate War
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"Beyond The Chocolate War" is the sequel to the award-winning book "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier. The sequel received an Honor List citation from the "Horn Book Magazine" in 1986 [Bernard A. Drew. [http://books.google.com/books?id=_ubHYRVKquEC&pg=PA79&dq=%22Beyond+The+Chocolate+War%22&ei=FD3eSLDyGpTqjgH0pZDYDA&sig=ACfU3U0oQfGi0iRksRgkUq7azMVVG8eHVw "The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies. Revised Edition."] Libraries Unlimited, 1997.ISBN-13: 9781563086151; p. 79] .

Plot summary

The story continues a few months after The Chocolate War ends. As the school year draws to an end, many students look forward to leaving but Carter and Obie, leading members of the ruthless secret society, The Vigils, can't contemplate the future until they have destroyed the leader, Archie Costello. Obie has seen his relationship with the beautiful Laurie Gundarson ruined by one of Archie's Vigil exploits and is out for revenge. But his plan involving a trick guillotine backfires and Archie hands over the leadership of the Vigils with his ruthlessly cool reputation still intact. During all of this, it's also revealed what happened to Jerry Renault after the conclusion of the last book, that he had stayed in Canada, and after a second scuffle with Emile Janza, decides to return to Trinity high school.

The story ends with Archie giving the role of the "Assigner" to his underling, Bunting, but only on one condition: Emile Janza becomes the Vigil's second-in-command. At the end of the year, Janza suggests to Bunting many changes to the way Archie ran the Vigils, including the use of physical force rather than psychological force, taxing students, and the selling of marijuana and pills. Bunting agrees, not knowing that it was Archie recommending all of the various illegal activities.

This was the last book in the series, due to Cormier's death in 2000.

New Characters

A few new characters are added to the plot here in Beyond the Chocolate War.

*Ray Bannister
*Bunting
*Corrnachio
*Harley

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