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In this passage, Brian Cochran—who is already wary of the shady, unhinged Brother Leon—witnesses the depths of Leon’s obsession with Jerry Renault’s revolt against the chocolate sale. Leon has so much hatred for Jerry that he thinks of him as a “disease” that must be cured. This metaphor of Jerry’s rebellion as something infectious—something that threatens to sweep up and “contaminate” the entire student body—will be repeated throughout the novel, but it is perhaps most potent in this quotation, as Leon, like a “mad scientist” bent on eradicating the disease that is Jerry, quietly plots revenge against the boy. It…