At Trinity it’s all about school spirit. Each year the boys volunteer to sell a certain number of boxes of chocolate to raise funds. But when new arrival Jerry declines to sell the chocolates, the school is shaken. Archie, Obie, Carter and clandestine organisation The Vigils may be behind his refusal - but how will they react when their orders change and Jerry still refuses?
I did not greatly enjoy this account of adolescent evil. Cormier’s tendency to use a bizarre range of sometimes clashing metaphors put me off, as did the underlying message of the tale: that people, basically, are horrible. Like Lord of the Flies or I’m the King of the Castle, the author’s point seemed to be that teenage boys are really, really horrible and end up wanting to kill each other. Perhaps it’s true… perhaps some people really like that sort of book… but I don’t get it!
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