![]() ![]() ![]() Chocolate is filling, rich, and has little nutritional value-it is a luxury and even a decadence whose overindulgence can result in illness, weight gain, and problems with one’s teeth. In this way, chocolate represents of the desire for control many of the characters within the book wrestle with. Leon’s belief that his “special” students will be able to carry out the increased demands of the sale with no problem demonstrates his voracious desire for control over the student body and the fate of the school alike. Moreover, each boy will be responsible for selling double his quota from previous years-each boy must sell fifty boxes rather than twenty-five. At the start of the novel, the untrustworthy Brother Leon announces that this year, the stakes for the sale are higher than ever the school is in financial jeopardy, its Head is ill, and to compensate Brother Leon has secured-possibly through shady channels-a massive amount of Mother’s Day chocolate, the ribbon-adorned boxes of which will be sold at double the price of previous years’ sales. ![]() Throughout the novel, chocolate is a shifting but ever-present symbol-the book’s whole plot is structured around a schoolwide chocolate sale, in which the all-male student body of Trinity high is yearly made to sell chocolate to raise funds for the institution. ![]()
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