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Summary: My Wave Review
Review: I liked the novel The Wave. I thought it was an interesting book to read.I liked it because I had never experienced any like what happened in the wave. I think I also liked it because it involved high school kids and I can relate to them better thin I could if it involved older people. Thats why I gave the book a 4 star review.
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Summary: nice book
Review: i've read the book, and i think it's pretty nice, the book had suspence, action, a good theme and plot, and didn't leave me bored at any point, so i didn't have to skip a few pages, the book isn't a kiddy book, so we had nice situations, and some cuss words to make sure that it's *not* a kiddy book, so my epinion is: good book, good title, good plot, you should get it
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Summary: This was a good book!
Review: 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: The classroom experiment that went too far
Review: (***) The Wave is a very good book. I think the book is also very descriptive and detailed, but it also doesn't give a lot of useless information. Another reason I like the book is because it is told in the perspectives of the main characters, mostly Laurie and Mr. Ross. The Wave has taught me a lot about group and peer pressure. Through Mr. Ross's experiment, the book describes how minorities, such as the Nazis, control a majority, such as the Germans and how important self-esteem and individuality are. It shows how one thing, such as The Wave, can cause so many conflicts between people. In addition, it shows how close history was about to repeat itself and that we should try not to repeat mistakes that happened. This book is one of my personal favorites.
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Summary: The classroom experiment that went too far
Review: After Mr. Ben Ross, the history teacher at Gordon High School, showed the class a film about Hitler, the other Nazis, and the Jews in the concentration camps, a few of his students start to ask questions about why the Germans didn't do anything about the Jews in the concentration camps. It bothered Mr. Ross that he couldn't answer the students' questions, so he decided to do an experiment called The Wave. Mr. Ross taught his students the salute, the symbol, and mottos: Strength through Discipline, Strength through Community, and Strength through Action. The class quickly gathers momentum and discipline through the leadership of their history teacher. The experiment made everybody, including Mr. Ross, get caught up with it. It made people have confidence and pride to be a member of The Wave. At first, it was just a game. But as The Wave becomes more successful, it spreads throughout the whole school, as old members recruit new ones. Later, conflicts arise because of The Wave. Members threaten anybody who is against The Wave or who doesn't want to become a member. After The Grapevine publishes a newspaper describing The Wave and its disadvantages, things really get out of control. Only Laurie Saunders and her boyfriend, David Collins discover out how dangerous The Wave is, they both try to stop it. But is it already too late?
The Wave is a very good book. I think the book is also very descriptive and detailed, but it also doesn't give a lot of useless information. Another reason I like the book is because it is told in the perspectives of the main characters, mostly Laurie and Mr. Ross. The Wave has taught me a lot about group and peer pressure. Through Mr. Ross's experiment, the book describes how minorities, such as the Nazis, control a majority, such as the Germans and how important self-esteem and individuality are. It shows how one thing, such as The Wave, can cause so many conflicts between people. In addition, it shows how close history was about to repeat itself and that we should try not to repeat mistakes that happened. This book is one of my personal favorites.
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Summary: Another Great Work
Review: I thought this book was great. I have read many of Todd Strassers books and liked all of them but this one is by far my favorite. I thought it was nice for a change to read about a true story that kept you on your toes and interested.Overall this is one of my favorite books of all time. It got right to the good parts and didn't waste time giving a lot of useless information. I would enjoy it if Mr. Strasser did another non-fiction work.
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Summary: should be standard in high school curriculum
Review: I never read this book in high school, although in my World History class, we watched the TV movie adaptation. I finally read this book when I began a career in psychology. This book was also particularly interesting because it actually based on events that happened in the town I lived in, and has since been etched into the town's history. Regardless of where the story takes place, it paints a painfully important lesson. It shows us how incredibly easy we could fall into a fascist society. No matter how much we talk about how ugly and apalling the Nazi movement was, it could easily be us. This story is also a prime example of why history is such an important lesson. It's not just for the knowledge of facts, but more importantly a lesson of how we should or should not lead our lives to avoid the same mistakes our forerunners made.
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Summary: Highly recommended for adults and kids to read together
Review: I'll start out by saying to adults out there that this is a book I would highly recommend...for your youngsters. First, it has characters that young adults like to read about--high schoolers, cheerleaders, football players, etc. Strasser also includes minor characters for break away from the action or for comic relief. I know my students enjoyed the characters, especially the girls who enjoyed the interaction between them and the fact that the progagonist is a female. Second, it deals with things that many young adults should know more about and/or have strong feelings about: the Holocaust and peer pressure. Discussing Nazi-ism with my class prior to reading the book caused them to ask many of the questions that the characters asked. The book helped them to understand the Holocaust better and lead to a discussion about peer pressure and the importance of setting your limits clearly before someone in high school pressures you into something (drugs, drinking, sex, stereotyping). Finally, it's a well written book. It has short chapters (everyone likes those), it's fast paced (because the book takes place over a week or so) and the main points are easilly understandable because the author has the characters repeat important information in different ways several times to make sure the young adult reader is not getting lost in sub-plots. In all, an excellent work that more parents or other adults should read with their children.
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Summary: Required Reading
Review: This book was required reading in high school and I was so happy that I read it. It really taught me a lot, not just about group pressure. I myself have always wondered how the people in Germany could get to the point where they no longer thought for them selves and just listened to the ravings of a madman. It has helped me to understand how people can become capable of incredible cruelties and it helped me realize that, if we're not careful, it could happen to anyone and everywhere. Like I said, in The Netherlands it's required reading and I will make sure that my children (whom I will be razing in the USA) will read it too.
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Summary: The classroom experiment that went too far...
Review: Teacher Ben Ross's class just doesn't understand why the Nazis had helped Hitler come to power and why they had been influenced to something so obviously inhumane. He decides to open up a new project, called The Wave -- in which Discipline, Community, and Action is their leading motto. In the beginning it made students feel a part of something , and feel equal to everyone else. But what began with a simple class experiment leads to a terrible outcome -- and soon, The Wave is beginning to take control everyone. But not in the way Ben Ross had directed it upon his students. Based on a true story, The Wave deals with how a person must trust his beliefs but in a way that will not harm others, and how a good cause can lead to a disaster. This was a fairly enjoyable and chilling story by Todd Strasser, and a thoroughly heart rending YA novel.
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