The Chocolate War

After reading an intricate novel containing many characters, it helps your understanding of the book to identify with the characters (how and why they do the things they do). In these cases it is always easier to compare the characters to something from everyday life. By separating them into categories of good and evil, the main characters in The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier can be compared to different levels of heaven and hell by …

…be clearly seen. To gain a better understanding of the good verses evil battle within this novel, it is easy to compare it to the Angel Hierarchy and Dante’s Inferno and to do this the good and evil characters can be compared to the different levels of heaven and hell. The theme of good verses evil is constant theme/ values throughout the book, which must be understood in order to fully appreciate the novel.