About the Chocolate War

The book so far is about that Jerry is the member of the football team and there is one mean man called Archie. Archie does something mean to people. One day, he decided to impose to other students to sell the chocolates which harder than last year. After that the story takes place in the room of football and talks about the football members.

So far, I am doing fine with reading the book. However, there are some confusions. These are that why Archie is afraid of the box, what the chocolates and the football's relations, and who is the main character.

On Monday, I talked with the teacher and the friend about Archie's characteristics. They think that he is pritending that he is afraid of the box because he is the one who is always does everything he wants. Maybe they do not trust the author. However I THINK that he is really afraid of the box because I think that the reason he is so mean, selfish is that he wants to hide some facts that he had before. Because he was weak before, he wanted to change his environment, that is why he tries to be mean, selfish. The box shows me that there are some unknown fact about Archie' past.

Secondly, Football and the chocolate's relation is not clear for me. Is it because author likes to play football and he wants to talk about it in the book even thought the story is about the chocolates? I think that the author can write about the story without writing about the football.

Lastly, I do not know who the most important character is. Even thought the Jerry is the telling the story, the story is about the Archie. First I thought that the main character was Jerry but now I am considering that the main character is Archie. If Archie is the main character, then why Jerry is telling the story? Jerry knows everything??