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Summary: Struck by The Wave
Review: One of my favorite books ever is The Wave. I find it fascinating that human nature can turn intelligent, thoughtful humans into automatons with no capacity for independent thinking. The book is based upon a real incident in which a teacher used his class as an experiment. Appalled by the experiences of the Nazis, high school students question the fact that reasonable people can become easily controlled. Their teacher uses them to prove that just such a possibility exists. The book is thought provoking and, I admit, a bit scary. It makes one wonder: Could I fall for a charismatic, Hitleresque leader?
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Summary: Love it
Review: I love most books that are set in a high school. I read this in english class 8th grade, and I really enjoyed it. It really shows how easily most people are tricked into believing in something is for the good, when it is extremely negative
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Summary: OK story, poorly written
Review: This book, unfortunately, does not live up to its subject matter. As an older reader, this book was very disappointing. There are several grammatical errors, and I hate reading sentences that could clearly be made better.All in all, I was again, very disappointed.
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Summary: It would never happen again...or would it?
Review: It has been 15 some years since the atrocities committed by Hitler and the Nazis upon the Jewish race came to light. The horrors of the past have just become plain history and is featured in a documentary that history teacher Ben Ross will show his class. After the viewing of the documentary though, Ben is pounded with questions on why German people could have let that happen...a question to which he has no anwser for. That nagging question haunts Mr. Ross and he comes up with an experient for his senior history class called "The Wave." A movement with the mottos "Strength Through Discipline", Strength Through Community, and Strenght Through Action". Soon The Wave becomes more than an experiment but a fad that takes the whole school by storm. Everybody feels The Wave is uniting people together like equals but only Laurie Saunders can see the dark, menacing side of The Wave...Will history repeat itself? This was based on a true story that happened in California. I was really surprised something like this could have happened again after WWII. It was a definite awaking. This book overall was okay. There wasn't a very interesting plot and the ending was as predictable as ever, though that wasn't the authors fault. All true stories have those problems. I still recommend teens to read it though.
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Summary: A true story that makes thoughtful
Review: The Wave is easy to read and you won't have any problems reading it within a night. Because it's really thrilling. First it's funny, then it gets more and more exciting, you are already a bit scared, but finally everything turns out well.
I can just recommend this book to everyone who likes novels which have a true message.
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Summary: a must read
Review: This is a review of the book The Wave by Todd Strasser. "Strength through Discipline; Strength through Community, Strength through Action". I am sure that Hitler had a similar motto for the Nazi Party. Even though it was initially a good idea for Mr. Ross's class to experience what Nazi life was like, it soon got out of hand. However, for some students it was something to look forward to because they had nothing else going on in their life.
I liked this book very much. It helped me see how it is possible that people are very sure that they are doing the right things but it turns out that what they are doing is totally wrong. I still can't believe that this really happened at a high school in 1969. It is unreal that something so horrible could happen only 30 years after WWII.
It seems that Mr. Ross was trying to do good for his history class, but he should have ended it as soon as they had just a little taste of Nazi life. It surprised me very much on page 95 that Brad would not let Laurie up the bleachers without doing the salute. I thought that was the first big sign that The Wave was getting out of hand. "Just do the stupid salute" Brad said. My understanding here was that he didn't want to do it either.
The moral of this story is to not always follow the crowd, but to keep your own identity. The letter Laurie received from the anonymous junior read: "Aren't you going to stick with your friends"? This was what the Wave member had said to the junior in trying to convince him to join The Wave. That just shows how people can be mind-controlled by a person in power. I can identify with the feelings, because it is not always easy to not give in to peer pressure
I would definitely recommend this book. It was an interesting read and left me wanting more.
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Summary: Wow
Review: This is a very interesting book. I can't believe that this actually happened in some highschool somewhere. That's pretty disturbing. It's a great book for young adults to read because it identifies with them the most. I wonder what would've happened if the experiment was allowed to continue? What then? Would the wave spread through the town and then what next? The next Nazi movement? That's just Scary to think about. Let's just hope that this type of thing doesnt happen again.
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Summary: read this book
Review: This book really shows what group pressure can do to a High School class. This book shows exactly how Hitler "brainwashed" the people of Germany to follow him as saying simmilar things like, "Strenght Through Discipline, Strenght Through Community, Strenght Through Action." These few words almost dystroy a school and a relationship between Laurie Saunders and David Collins. This book really shows what can happen today.
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Summary: Wave,The
Review: Strenghth through acion, Strenghth through dicipline, Strenghth through community. These are three of the impowering phrases that help "The Wave" as strong as it became. The reference to Nazis and cults helped me gain perspective on how "The Wave" was a power hungry, minipulating group. This excellent book helped me understand how the nazis could let there friends be persicuted and pretend that nothing is happining.
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Summary: The Wave
Review: The book is simply terrible. Throughout the book the author continues to use the characters full name. Before long it just gets annoying. Don't read this book
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