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Summary: A very good book!
Review: The Wave by Morton Rhue"Morton Rhue" is a pseudonym and his real name is Todd Strasser . He was born in New York City in 1950 and he grew up on Long Island (N.Y.). Todd went to the I.U. Willets Elementary School. The he went to the Wheatly School for junior high an high school. He had trouble with spelling and grammar. Later he graduated from Beloit College. He was a reporter on the Middletown (N.Y.) Times-Herald Record and an adverting copywriter before his first novel for young people, Angel Dust Blues, was published 1979. For some years he supplemented his income as the owner of Toggle Inc., a small fortune-cookie company. He and his wife, Pamela, live not far from New York City with their daughter, son, and yellow Labrador retriever. "The Wave" was the first book he had published under his pseudonym "Morton Rhue". As Todd Strasser he published more than 100 books. He wrote movie novelizations, too, for example "Free Willy", "Jumanji" or "Home alone". He got many awards for some of his books. The book is called 'The Wave', because the experiment, the teacher started is named like that. His intention is to create something, which symbolises movement, direction and impact. Then he gets the idea of calling it 'The Wave' , because a wave has these characteristics. In order to give the 'Wave members', his pupils, a feeling of community, he also introduces a special symbol and a special salute. The symbol is a circle with the outline of a wave inside it. The salute is to cup the right hand in the shape of a wave, then to tap it against the left shoulder and hold it upright. Ben Ross a history teacher at an American high school is discussing the horrors of the holocaust. The students ask how all this could happen. They ask if all the Germans were not Nazis, why they just stood by and watched. Mr. Ross can not answer their questions properly. He wants to start an experiment. He wants to recreate the situation of life in Nazi Germany. This experiment is called The Wave. The Wave is completely different to their normal lessons. There is a membership card and a special salute. The new Wave community is a kind of secret family, something special. Other students want to be involved and members recruit new members. So the Wave moves beyond the classroom. Later the Wave gets out of control. Anyone who says something against the Wave is an enemy, these people are threatened. After a while Mr. Ross realizes that the Wave gets out of control. He decides to end his experiment abruptly. He organizes a Wave rally. When the lights in the hall get out a film of Hitler and the holocaust appear on the TV-screens. The film stops with a picture of Hitler surrounded by soldiers. Finally Mr. Ross says: "Yes you all would have made good Nazis... Fascism isn't something those other people did, it's right here in all of us". The author of the book ‚The Wave' uses a limited omniscient narrator for the story. That means that it is told from the point of view of the most important characters (especially Laurie and Mr. Ross) He always uses the third person form. The relationship between descriptions and dialogues is balanced out. In my opinion it is a must to read "The Wave" if someone is interested in the historical and political facts of the Third Reich. The Wave is a modern novel, that tells you how Hitler was able to have such a great success and how he won the masses. In "The Wave" the classroom- experiment is compared to Hitler's raise to power. Ben Ross plays the role of a leader and finally this thing called "The Wave" gets out of control. The book makes clear, that something like the Third Reich is not past, it tells us that it can happen even in the present. It is interesting to read and also easy to understand. Because of these reasons the reader may be caught up while reading it. Sum: A book for young adults, told in a modern way. Everybody should read it and you will not regret it!
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Summary: High Impact
Review: I read this book many years ago when I was in High School, however, I have never forgotton it. It has an extremely frightening message which is fluidly conveyed by the author. It is without doubt one of the books which I want my children to read in order for them to realise exactly how important individuality and self confidence are, and how easy it is to be seduced. or pressured into a group mentality.
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: The wave was a very enjoyable book. I am really into the Holocaust and WWII and I thought this book would be kind of slow, but it was an excellent book. Although I tend to stay away from non-fiction this was a very good book!
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Summary: A Separate Peace and The Wave
Review: Essay: A Separate Peace and The Wave Everyone has a yearning to be part of something. Joining a group can be especially meaningful when a person is in search of a positive experience. However, when conflicts arise, difficult decisions must be made. Both A Separate Peace and The Wave have characters who become a part of a group situation and are forced to question why they're in the group and who they really are. The Wave, a novel which looks in on a suburban Los Angeles classroom, tells a very deep story. Sarah, the main character in the story, is part of a new club that has been started in her school. Not long after joining she finds the club she has joined, called "The Wave", to be highly fraternal, possibly too fraternal, and mean to students who wouldn't join. Once she decides to stop going to the meetings, other members harass her. Sarah learns from the whole experience that fighting for her cause made her a better person. In the story A Separate Peace the character focused on is named Gene. He faces an internal conflict while at boarding school in New Hampshire: be liked by his friend Finny, or just be himself. Just like Sarah's, his decision is hard. Gene tries to be what Finny wants him to be and consequently does whatever Finny tells him to do. 014 There are some similarities between these two books. One similarity is that the characters focused on in both novels find themselves in situations that they can't get out off very easily. But in time Gene and Sarah acknowledge their mistakes and come to terms with them. Stronger personalities come as a result of the experiences. In conclusion, the two main characters learn from the situations. Sarah learned that by leaving "The Wave" she was fighting a good cause. Gene realized he could be who he really was and no one would think any differently of him. Better souls resulted from one thing: change.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: It is an excellent book. It shows well the situation during The Second World War. It proves that something like that can happen again and again. Reading this book, you have the opinion, that you have been that girl who notices where the Wave is going to...............
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Summary: Great Thriller book
Review: I highly reccomend this book to anyone that likes an exciting book. This a great book. It talks about what happens when a High School experiment goes terriblely wrong. It starts when teacher Bob Ross tries an experiment to show his students why many people followed Nazism. Soom the Wave's Motto :Strength through disiplin,strength through community, and strength through action gonverns the whole school. People are threatened and beantened for not joining the Wave. Students are skipping classes to get to Mr.Ross's. This a great book. Very exciting.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: I never knew that this sort of thing was possible! Ican'tbelieve how powerful this book was. And it deeply frightens methat this could happed again as easily as it did in "The Wave" People might say that they think that this couldn't ever happen, but I believe that I can. I can't believe some of the things that happened. I highly recommend this book for everyone!
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Summary: A Classic at First Paragraph
Review: As soon as I began reading this book, I read more and more and more until it was finished. The plot is fascinating. It is about a history teacher who when talks to some of his pupils about how most of the German citizens not knowing what was going on in the Nazi camps, the class brings up how they couldn't have known. Of course, the profesor can't answer the question of course, so he decides to lead... This book is a "wow". It was well thought out, cleverly written, and an all round classic, and to top it all off, it's a true story! Steven Spielburg, if you read this, make it a movie!
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Summary: Great book, just finished it
Review: I just finished reading The Wave for my eighth grade english class and I thought it was great. I was only supposed to read up to chapter six for Monday, but I got so into the book that I finished it. I only wish that it was a little longer and that they had spent more time on the ending. It was really good to completely get a grasp on how much American youth will rely on one leader to think for them. Even though the book takes place in 1969, I think the incident could still take place today, because so many kids are still willing to follow a leader and do what the majority is doing. Deep down, The Wave really is a classic story about the effects of extreme peer pressure.
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Summary: An Awesome Book For An 8th Grade Class
Review: Dear Readers, I am an eighth grade teacher. For about 15 years I have been reading "The Wave" with my students. It is deffinitly a very intriguing and exciting book for anyone and everyone! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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