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Summary: The Wave
Review: I liked this book very much. I especially liked the mottos: Strength through Community! Strength Through Discipline! Strength through Action! My class read it and I liked it very much. I felt sorry for Robert Billings in the end. I wondered how Mr. Ross felt when he had to stop the wave. I mean, like, how would you feel like if you started something very sucessful and suddenly YOU HAD to stop it? I also felt sorry for the members of The Wave because Mr. Ross controlled them for such a long time, then saying "This is your leader. See what you've becoming?" It was very exciting, but it also teaches us a valuable lesson: Don't trust someone just because they are in a position of trust or authority. I guess I have learned that too after reading this book. This was a great book, and I'd wish to research more about WWII. Wouldn't you?
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Summary: This was a good book!
Review: = This was a good book!
Reviewer: Quinones from Peekskill, NY
This book took place in Palo Alto, California in Gordon High School. It started when Mr.Ross(the teacher) showed the class a
movie about the Holocaust. "Experiment of the wave", strengh through disciplne and strengh through community. "The Wave" is
the group that joined the experiment which took over a large number of students. The administrators of the school start to
observe the class with the experiment.
Two students opposed "The Wave" and one was threatened and the other one got beat up. Lauri also opposed "The Wave"
and wrote an article about it in the school newspaper "The Grapevine".
At the end of the book, "The Wave" was dissolved although it taught a great lesson, I think it did more bad than good.This book was 3rd Person (Someone else is telling the story)
Lauri Saunders- Student, editor of school newspaper
Mr. Ross- History Teacher
David Collins- Lauri's boyfriend READ THIS BOOK!!!
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Summary: Possible
Review: My daughter brought home The Wave because they're reading it in class. She told me that the teacher wanted parents to read the book also. I finished it in two hours. While it was quickly paced and could easily have gone deeper and more indepth it's still an excellent portrayal of what COULD happen and HOW. You always wonder how someone could let themself be involved with something so horrible and this book gives us a glimps into the power of persuasion and how it can be abused in all facets of life.
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Summary: Just voice
Review: (this review was written in the voice of a character.)
A distressing incident occured in my history class of 1969 in Palo Alto, California.It all started when Mr.Ross, my history teacher, deicded to do an experiment based on Nazi-style discipline.They made a book out of it that will touch the lives of the reader's for as long as they live.Although, I already knew what would happen in this book, after I read it, I lost my appetite.
The author used strong, descriptive words that fit the context so very well. I escpecially like this quote, because it shows exactly what kind of people we were." Most of these students had grown up in a small, suburban community that spread out lazily around Gordon High. They were the products of stable, middle-class families, and despite the violence-saturated media, that permeated society around them, they were surprisingly naive and sheltered." The tone of the author when describing how the wave hurt so many people, evoked an inner fear that I'd never felt before. The following quote depicts the horror of World War II, "They saw emaciated men and women starved so severley that they appeared to be nothing more than skeletons covered in skin." It shows what could have happened if the experiment went astray. The plot made the book even more interesting because it was so bizzare. The following quote depicts a student, my boyfriend recoiling in shock at the Wave's impact,"What had possesed him these last few days that could cause him to do something so stupid? There he'd been,denying that the Wave could hurt anyone, and at the same time, he'd hurt Laurie, his own girfriend, in the name of the Wave!" Who would have thought something like that could have happened? As a witness of the incident, I would say this book depicts it [the incident] very well. Next time, you go to the library, check out this book, or you're missing out.
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Summary: The Wave
Review: The Wave, Friends destroyed, racism occurs, and who is to blame? This book takes the reader back into the 1960's in Plato California where a normal high school recreates Hitler in WW2. Laurie Saunders a bright young girl was shocked to learn about what happened in the concentration camps of World War 2. She thought of a question a thoughtful one too and talked to Mr. Ross who was the history teacher. " How could someone be influenced to kill people"? This is where it all goes wrong. This exact point of the story will begin the madness and the struggle for the freedom of thinking for yourself. When the football team took control. They thought it would make them better players well they thought wrong. People from different classrooms and different grades started to participate in the wave. Saluting down the hall just like when Hitler arrived to his speeches. Banners in the hall just like the Nazis banner around their arms. The Grape Vein acts back and tries to fight the wave. Laurie the caption of the school newspaper will remind all the kids that they need to think for themselves. Over all The Wave shows the viewer that history can repeat itself, and that without the ability to be free then what's there to live for. I rate this book a 3 out of 4 for it's impact and that 23 years after ww2 it can happen all over.
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Summary: Fascinating, but poorly done.
Review: After having read the first couple of pages, I was absolutely unable to put the book down. The idea of the story, that fascism is still present everywhere, even in America, which resents it the most is quite interesting. It is true that the characters are not exactly the most complex ones I was ever confronted with in a novel, and also the idea that a high school class of such a rowdy nature is transformed into such a obedient and disciplined "machine" is quite ridiculous, but I believe that had the characters had more depth, or had the author spent more time on the transformation, it would have interfered with the story's flow.
Now, the main reason why I enjoyed this book so much is that it confronts a theme that too many people are trying to forget, to ignore: the susceptibility of every single person on this planet to fascism. To prove this, a teacher at an American high school starts a very dubious experiment. He founds a "club", the Wave. They have their own greeting, and an own belief (power by discipline, power by community, power by action). But soon nobody sees the Wave as a school project anymore, but as real life. Students that refuse to join the Wave are threatened. The student newspaper releases an article which criticizes the Wave very strongly, and somebody sprays the word "ENEMY" on the author's locker. Things escalate when a Jewish boy is beaten up. Even the teacher who founded the Wave cannot control it any longer. But then he shows the members of the Wave a picture of Adolf Hitler, and says that he is their leader. He shows how wrong the way that they were behaving was, and suddenly, everything goes back to normal.
The ending of this book is truly somewhat idiotic, and is obviously a result of lack of ideas. It seems as if the author was trying very hard to find a "happy end" to his story. As if Mr. Strasser had run out of time and had to finish his book quickly. This caused an extreme loss of quality. Another factor that demonstrates this idea is that the story was written in such simple a language that any four year old child could have read the story without difficulties. Overall, I must say that the book seemed to be more like a first draft than anything else. The idea for the story was very fascinating, but its execution more than questionable.
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Summary: No waves in the ending
Review: Ben Ross, an U.S. history teacher at Gordon High School was teaching his students about World War II. After showing a movie in class one day, some of his students had questions he couldn't answer. So after getting home he reads up on "Nazi Youth" and he came up with an experiment called The Wave. With the help of David and Laurie, two of his students, he realized that he had to stop The Wave before it got out of hand.
The Wave had its good parts and its bad parts of the book. The book started out boring from the start, but as you read on the book becomes more interesting. Towards the middle of the book you have to read on to find out what happen next. I say from chapter 9 on, the story gets really good.
Then as the last chapter rolls around you can't wait to see what happens at the end of the book. Up till this point you might have questions that you ask yourself. Like what is Ben Ross going to do? How will it turn out? Will his plan work? As you read forward in the final chapter, you kind of read what his plan might be. As the plan goes through the ending becomes sad. Students are crying and that is how it basically ends. The ending made me thinks what happen next? I first thought that pages were missing, but they weren't. In my opinion I believe that the book should have ended the next day at school or later on in the year to explain to you and me, the reads, how everyone has handled the end of The Wave and how everyone has reacted.
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Summary: Not exactly high brow literature, but the point is made.
Review: This book is a novelization of a "teleplay." I believe that the teleplay was an ABC afterschool special. Not exactly the recipe for a well written book. Based on a true story, the book does make a point. It is a good, if seemingly scary, illustration of the group mentality that we should all fear. I'm a history teacher myself and the book was recommended to by two of my students. I'm glad I read it and might do something with it next year. What? I know I won't run an experiment like this, but perhaps we will read a bit of it.
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Summary: JUST ONE
Review: The WAVE respresents life. It shows how some people just take life for a ride, and letting someone else decide. But there is also a myriad of events where people jump off the rollar coaster ride and stand up for themselves. The WAVE showed how easy it is to get hooken without even realizing it. It shows how important the power of one voice is. This book to say the least was stellar.
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Summary: The Wave... making a splash
Review: "Strength through discipline. Strength through community. Strength through action." That was the motto for THE WAVE, an experiment that got out of hand at a high school in California. When Ben Ross, the History high school teacher, has a class that asks him why the people of Germany would ever join the Nazis. In the experiment, he creates three mottos, and whenever people in THE WAVE would have a meeting, they would always have to chant the motto. In a matter of days, however, THE WAVEloses control, and quickly gathers speed to the whole school and eventually the city. Will Mr. Ross be able to stop it before THE WAVE loses control? This thriller is definitely hard to put down and i highly recomend it. In my opinion this book was very well written. The author keeps you turning the page throughout the whole book. It is a great thriller novel and is awesome. I also think that it was a good story but it could have been better. The book was a little slow pace and did not apeal to me.It was however a interesting and easy read book that was ok in my opinion.
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