Jerry Renault Fourteen-year-old Jerry Renault is like the typical scrawny or scrawny teenager in his first year at Trinity, an all-boys Catholic high school. He tends to dwell on depressive emotions, sexual frustration due to hormones and his mother's loneliness as well as questioning his own existence in the world. He has no mother and recently passed away within a few months. He often reminisces and recalls the times when his parents lived together in a house with a large yard and a front lawn that his father never tired of mowing. He's trying to become a quarterback and do well in school even though it weighs him down. In addition to being the best son to his widowed father, Jerry is starting to freak out about his father's boring lifestyle. He worries about ending up like his father and being stuck in the same rut as his father. Realizing this factor, Jerry decides to turn his life around on impulse by saying "No" to chocolates but, in reality he is saying "no" to the entire "universe" that The Vigils and Brother Leon have created at Trinity. The random boy from the street accuses Jerry of being a "square boy. Middle aged at fourteen...". Ignoring the boy's aimless lifestyle, she begins to question all the routines of her life. It's not that he doesn't love and appreciate his father, but Jerry becomes increasingly worried about growing up and being trapped in a boring life like his father's. He realizes that his father is forced to live a boring, almost unhappy life, as he looks in the mirror and "sees his father's face reflected in his features." We can also see in the story, Jerry tends to teeter on the line between excitement and boredom by isolating and not being isolated. At the beginning...... middle of the paper... as well as president of the Vigils. He doesn't care or care about using his physical strength to command respect. He's the only one who can stand up to Archie and doesn't hesitate to put him on probation until he sells all the chocolates. He wants the chocolates to be sold because he knows that Archie made a deal to help Brother Leon and plus he likes to avoid conflicts with Brother Leon. Obie Obie is the secretary of The Vigils and does everything. Archie wants him to do this in addition to keeping Archie supplied with Hershey's chocolate. He admires Archie as an idol and Archie's deviousness, but despises him and resents his cruel plans. His most desired and unfulfilled wish is to see Archie choose a black marble from the infamous black box since Archie never seems to choose black. Obie also takes part in Jerry's beating and punishment for defying the Vigils.