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5. The Chocolate War《巧克力戰爭》1974年

作者：(美)羅伯特·科米爾

[梗概]

杰瑞·雷諾思索著海報上的一行字：我敢不敢撼動這宇宙？在一年一度的校籌款會上，杰瑞拒絕販賣巧克力的行為也許不算激進，但當他與學校里一個叫"守夜會"的秘密學社為敵時，他的抗爭才真正演變成一場全面戰爭。

Jerry Renault ponders the question on the poster: Do I dare disturb the universe? Refusing to sell chocolates in the annual school fund-raiser may not seem like a radical thing to do. But when Jerry challenges a secret school society called The Vigils, his defiant act turns into an all-out war.

[簡評]

--本書有力地說明了，要堅持你所信奉的，即使是一個人在戰斗。——讀者凱特

It's a powerful lesson about standing by what you believe in, even if you must do so alone. - Reader Kat

--世界是險惡的，你無法改變這個現實。努力反抗才是你最重要的出路。——本書作者羅伯特·科米爾

The world is evil and there's nothing you can do about it. Trying to fight against it is the most important thing you can do. - Robert Cormier, author of this book

[精彩片段]

--他厭惡自己的生活以這種方式繼續下去，漫長的還過得去的日日夜夜——不算好，不算壞，不算偉大，不算墮落，不算激動人心，什么都不算。

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

--不在于你的塊頭有多大，而在于你怎樣運用你的身體。

It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.