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Reading diary: The Wave von Morton Rhue. Book summary, characterization od Ben Ross, Book review

Contents:


  • Reading expectation

  • Book summary

  • Characterization of Ben Ross

  • Newspaper article

  • Diary entry

  • Book review


Reading expectations:


At first, I thought “The Wave” isn’t really a book I want to read. From the cover of the book I couldn’t really expect anything, because it’s just red. But then I read the blurb and also watched the movie and the topic the book is discussing catch me a bit. The way how the blurb describes the experiment that a teacher wanted to stage a kind of national socialism in his class sparked my interest.

I find this part of the history very interesting and so I got interested in the book too. I also hoped it wouldn’t get too boring to read, because normally I don’t really like reading books. But then I thought that it is just a short novel, so it couldn’t be too bad. Then I just read it and I think it wasn’t a mistake and I also don’t think it was boring.


Book summary:

Chapter 1:

The story starts with Laurie Saunders while she is in the Grapevine office, but then the view changes to Ben Ross, who is a bit angry about the grades of his students and the lack of completed homework.

Chapter 2:

Mr. Ross shows a movie about the Holocaust to his students and explains about the Nazi supremacy and about the Jews that got killed in the second world war and Amy asks why the Germans killed so many Jews, but Mr. Ross couldn’t answer.

Chapter 3 (analysis, by Robin):

David Collins sits in the outdoor courtyard, as his girlfriend Laurie joins him. They watch the weirdo Robert Billings and David calls him "Gordon High's very own Untouchable". They are talking about him a while and Laurie wondering if something is wrong with Robert. Laurie is still bothered by the film on Nazi Germany shown by Mr. Ross. While Laurie is still upset about the film David asks her if she wants to eat her meal but Laurie had no appetite so David helps her finishing it.

Later Amy and Brian, the quarterback joins them at the table. After their arrival they talk about the next football game and calculus. A short time later Laurie and Amy go to the Grapevine office where Amy sits at the open window and smokes a cigarette and if somebody would come in, she would easily drop it to the ground. The two girls talk about the relationship between Laurie and David, as it knocks on the closed door.

The voice of Principal Owens appears and Amy quickly throws her cigarette outside the window and searches a chewing gum or a mint. As Laurie opens the door there are only Carl Block, the Grapevine's investigative reporter and Alex Cooper, the music reviewer. The girls are a little angry about their joke. The two guys want to see how the paper makes some advance. After a short time, they leave the office, because Alex remembers that he has to .....[read full text]

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Chapter 13:

Laurie and Amy went to the game on Saturday and Brad forces her to do The Wave salute, because the rest of The Wave wants him to do this. Also, the school newspaper with the article of the Jewish sophomore who was beaten up got released.

Chapter 14:

Amy and Laurie discuss about the newspaper the next day, because Amy thinks the only reason why Laurie did it was because of the fight with David.


Chapter 15:

Mrs. Ross tries to convince Mr. Ross to end The Wave, because it destroys both of their careers and after they see Laurie and David at their front door, she is convincing him again to stop it.

Chapter 16:

Mr. Ross meets with Principal Owens, who met with the Jew’s father, who turned out to be a rabbi who lived in Auschwitz for two years. He then goes back to his history class and tells the students that they are going to see their leader.

Chapter 17:

The view changes to an auditorium where the assembly is to be held and then Ben rolls out a TV and shows a video of Hitler. He says that this is their leader and they are going to be good fascists, but the fault is more on him as a le.....





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But sometimes he is too committed and gets too involved in his own projects and that is why the other teachers are quite doubtful on him for using unusual learning methods.

In addition, he is very purposeful and if he has something in his mind, he does everything to achieve it. During his latest project, Ben quickly realizes that the project is escalating and grows over his head.



Newspaper article:


Sunday, 20th Mai 1981 written by Robin Kertzsch


Palo Alto Local

Threats and Anti-Semitism in local high school!

National Socialism. The class of Ben Ross, a teacher at Gordon High School, worked on that topic last week and also made an experiment about that.

The experiment was intended to explain how National Socialism spread in Germany. “At the beginning, I started with stricter rules, such as going to the teacher´s desk, if you know the answer. Surprisingly, the students did not find it weird and started to like it so I went on with the experiment. On the next day the class cohesion became noticeably stronger and so I continued with my experiment” Mr Ross said.

After 3 days, and after Ross introduced a gang-sign, the wave spread to the other classes and the wave became more members. The exclusion and threats against students who did not like to participate in this project, started. The project escalated and even a Jewish student was injured in a brawl because he criticized the so called “Wave”. The experiment was cancelled and the students realized what t.....

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After the experiments spread over to other classes, I started to lose control. After the Jewish student was beaten up, I cancelled the experiment.




Book review:

The Wave is an American novel by Morton Rhue from 1981. The plot is divided into 17 chapters and takes place at Gordon High School in a small American town. The novel is largely based on the experiment "The Third Wave", which was conducted in 1967 at a high school in Palo Alto by the teacher Ron Jones.

History teacher Ben Ross is in the process of discussing the Third Reich with his students. After the screening of a video about the Holocaust, there is a great lack of understanding in his class about how a state power like the Nazi regime could establish itself at all. The students are also amazed and horrified that the manipulation of the German population was so easy.

The young people are absolutely certain that such an influence is unthinkable a second time. Ben Ross, too, is pondering whether the behavior of the population in Nazi Germany was actually so inexplicable and unique. He decides to conduct an experiment with his class and founds a totalita.....

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