... Castello, gives out assignments to anyone he feels like. These "Assignments" are nothing but pranks The Vigils play on anyone they want. Whenever Archie assigns someone, he has to draw a marble from "The Black Box". The box contains 6 marbles, 5 white and 1 black. If Archie draws a white marble, the assignment stands. Archie's worst nightmare is if he draws a black one. If this happens, Archie himself would have to complete the assignment. I personally think this was not a bad book. It shows the pressure teenagers these days face. One of the techniques Cormier used in this book was to centralize a character per chapter. It had quite a slow and dull start but after the first 3 or 4 chapters, the story starts to get interesting. I didn't really like Cormier's way of writing; I hate books with chapters that always begin without continuing what the ...

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