THE CHOCOLATE WAR ESSAY Robert Cormier is the author of The Chocolate War. This novel deals with the unique problems faced by teenagers. Following its success as a novel, Keith Gordon has directed and written a movie based on The Chocolate War. This film is true to the novel unlike most movie adaptations today. However there is one difference. The ending from the novel and film completely differ from one another. The novel is set …showed first 75 words of 867 total…

…showed last 75 words of 867 total…prime minister of Israel was known to have said that we can forgive the Arabs for murdering our children, but we can never forgive the Arabs for forcing our children to kill theirs. In conclusion I preferred the novel as opposed to the film. I thought in the novel Jerry was more true to himself. Jerry, in the film, used violence to prove a point. This was against his morals. It was not ‘Jerry Renault’.