“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about” (76). Logan Sweet is in the Marshmallow Room of his father’s factory talking to Henry, one of the workers in the room. Henry asks Logan how he and the other three contestants of the candy contest are getting along. Logan mentions that Philip, another contestant, isn’t very kind to anyone. Henry advises him not to be so hard on Philip, since he could just be having some conflicts in his life that Logan doesn’t know about. When Henry leaves, Logan remembers a piece of paper in his pocket. He takes it out of his pocket, and it says to be kind to everyone you meet, because everyone you meet is going through something you know nothing about. This reminds Logan how he has his own battle he’s fighting, which is the struggle of having scars on his arms and half of his face. But Logan isn’t the only one to be fighting a…show more content… Wendy Mass’s novel, The Candymakers, illustrates that nobody can assume someone else’s life at home, for all they know, that person could have a personal struggle.
Philip, one of the contestants, has his own personal struggle when he finds out that he not only will be going back to the candy factory, where he was supposedly banned, but also that his father has hired a spy to steal the factory’s secret ingredient. Although he hopes nobody will recognize him, Henry, the factory worker, “never forgets a face” (278), and soon is giving advice to Philip on what to do about his father. To save the factory, Philip decides to make a deal with his father: If he wins the candy contest, his father cannot buy the candy factory. Another personal struggle Philip has is when he tries to steal the factory’s secret ingredient in order to keep the spy his father hired away from the ingredient. When Philip is caught trying to take the secret ingredient away, he and his fellow contestants sit down to
