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Film Review: The Chocolate War
The chocolate war

Have you ever walked in to school feeling like you and no friends and that nobody likes you. That's exactly how Jerry from the chocolate war feels. He's always getting picked on and he also never follows the rules. At this school they do fundraisers every year. Jerry is a freshman who decisions not to sale and the result of that is that everybody thinks he's weird. Just for that little reason they start picking on him. The victims and victimizers the way he and other student are being picked on.

Jerry tries to explain how the vigils are manipulating the students with there physical and verbal abuse. The vigils then set up a fight that Jerry has no chance of winning. "Funny, somebody does violence to you but you're the
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