TCW Post #4: Pages 132-174

Summary:
The whole school is bragging about how Jerry continues to refuse to sell chocolates. No one, not even The Goober knows why, until readers find out that it is Jerry's assignment from The Vigils not to sell chocolates for 10 whole days. Even after this, Jerry says no, and does not know why. Jerry is soon after called oon to a meeting of The Vigils where Archie explains to him that people should do what they don't want to do, therefore giving him a chance to make up for all of the chocolates he didn not sell. Brother Leon is really on his toes too, he's really pissed at The Vigils, and the fact that not enough chocolates had been sold. Leon constanly scrutinizes Jerry that he is speadding a 'disease', where none of the boys at Trinity are selling their quota of chocolates. According to Archie, 'freshmen should have enough school spirit to sell chocolates.' Also, alot of blackmailing has been going on in these pages, blackmailing of the dirty sort. :P

Quote:
"So what?" This is what infuriated Obie_the way Archie tried so hard not to be impressed, to always play it cool. You could tell him that The Bomb was going to be dropped and he'd probably say "so what?" It got under Obie's skin, mostly because he suspected that it was an act, that Archie wasn't as cool as he pretended to be. And Obie was awaiting his chance to find out" (Cormier 146).

Reaction:
I gotta say, the novel has gotten pretty dramatic as of now. I didn't really expect Jerry to still say no even after his assignment was over but man, he's got gots, for real. My view of The Vigils has changed dramatically, as well. I thought The Vigils were like an 'super secret underground academics group', but I was wrong. It's like an anarchy group working within the school. Now, on the quote... I love it. It shows Obie's true feelings of jealosy towards Archie, that he just 'acts' cool to impress. Meh, I kinda like the idea though. It's like Obie is Archie's best friend, but he's really waiting to stab him in the back sooner or later. On another note, the blackmails came as a shock to me. XD