The Wave: Finale

This chapter is pretty crazy. Especially the ending! Mr Ross finds the craziest way of ending The Wave, after being convinced it had to be stopped. He gathers everybody involved in The Wave into an auditorium. He then projects an image of Adolf Hitler, saying that he is their leader. After that, he then tells them that there is no leader and that The Wave made them act like total Nazis. From them on, kids leave and drop their wave stuff, totally stunned at what just happened. On the other hand, Robert is sad because The Wave ended. It was finally something that made him feel accepted and like an equal. Mr. Ross sees that, then takes him out for food.

Before all that happened, you could tell how bad The Wave was getting. With the anonymous letter to the grapevine, or how Amy and Laurie had that fight. I think it’s crazy how the kids dressed in full uniform with even arm bands. But after reading the book, I learned Ben Ross wasn’t all that evil. He actually did The Wave for experimentation purposes. But it got way out of hand and had to be stopped in a very drastic reality realizing way. Overall, I’m not going to lie, but this book was boring. Most people are going to say they liked it, but I didn’t. It was alright, but I couldn’t find it very entertaining. Sure the ending was like, ‘Whoa’, but still. The whole book leading up until that was just boring and endless. But it is a very good lesson, teaching us how groups can go out of hand like that.

The Wave: Beginning of the End (8-12)

Chapters 8-12 in the book are actually pretty good. They seem to focus more on Laurie and her life. At the beginning it tells about Laurie and David. Then it shows us a part where Laurie is talking to her mother again and her mother still doesn’t really trust whats going on at school with the wave. I wouldn’t either if I was Laurie’s mom. I think that Laurie is trying to disguise her uncertainty about The Wave infront of her mother because she acts like it’s not that big of a deal, but deep inside she feels it’s wrong.
I dislike how Mr. Ross feels a little bit obligated to keep The Wave going for Robert. Ever since The Wave started, Robert has been a completely new person. (For the better)  They should find another better way to keep him happy like that.
When Mr. Ross talks to the principal, he tells Mr. Ross that what he is doing has the potential to get out of hand and that he must watch the kids.  I think that the principal is very intelligent.
The Wave is getting pretty intense. I found this line very interesting: “He said pretty soon people in The Wave wouldn’t want to be friends with people that weren’t in it”  It pretty well shows how far this little ‘experiment’ is going. I honestly think that The Wave getting pretty crazy isn’t entirely Mr. Ross’s fault. It was just a harmless experiment that everybody got exceptionally caught up in and turned it out of hand. It’s partially his and the kids fault.
Overall, I really liked these chapters. Very awesome.

The Wave: Formation of The Wave

In this chapter of the The Wave, things start to get interesting. First of all, Ben Ross (The History Teacher) decides to teach his class about discipline. It begins with him ordering them around and making them say ‘Mr. Ross’ before they would answer him and what not. The class gets totally hypnotized in the class and actually listen to him very well. The next class comes, and the same thing happens. Then, Mr. Ross starts a group called ‘The Wave’. He made the emblem for it by creating a circle and putting a wave inside it. Christy, (Ben’s wife) is quite concerned about this group that Ben made. But she doesn’t know for sure what is going to happen.
Honestly, these chapters weren’t half bad.  Still, not terribly interesting, but it’s still intermediately good. I think it’s crazy how the kids are getting so caught up in what Mr. Ross is doing to them. Mr. Ross is quite the character. He is alright, but I’m not crazy about him. I think he is going to do something bad to the class maybe. I don’t know. But anyways, yeah. This chapter kind of reveals a bit more about the characters. It even explains how some characters are trying to use the discipline thing to make their sports team better and more cooperative. There still isn’t really much to say about the characters, but that’s alright. Overall, these chapters were half decent. I must say.

The Wave; Starting Fresh

The first four chapters of The Wave are pretty basic. It doesn’t tell much, but it let’s us know who some of the characters are and a little about the setting of the story. The beginnings of the story revolve around Ben and his history class that he teaches. During class, he shows them a film about Nazi Germany. Some of the kids were stunned by the film, and some didn’t even care. But it seems to hit Laurie Saunders pretty good. But enough about that. I’m not doing a summary. Anyways, the book so far is alright. I’m going to admit that it is pretty boring, but all books start off boring. I like the characters and the setting. And the description of Ben is pretty cool. I hope this book gets more interesting as it goes on. Theres not much too say about the book yet seeing as how I’m only 4 chapters in and nothing major has happened yet. But I’m sure as the book goes on, something cool will happen.