Brief Summary Of The Book 'The Wave' By Ben Ross

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The wave is a story about how a teacher, Ben Ross tried an experiment out on his history class to show the how life was in Nazi Germany. The experiment starts out going ok but quickly got out of control. This book is a great example of how having power and the power of something can have a major influence on things. Ben starts to see that the experiment isn’t going the way he wanted after Robert Billings says he will be his body guard (chapter 11) and Ben reluctantly agrees because he didn’t want to upset Robert. Although this worried Ben he still didn’t stop the experiment, instead he starts to see how far he can take this experiment with the students. It’s not until someone gets hurt and he reads the schools newsletter that Ben realizes…show more content…
As the experiment progressed Ben Ross subconsciously became their leader and the students listened to every ‘command’ he gave. The students thought the wave was good because they thought that it was making everyone equal so people like Robert Billings, the class loner, wouldn’t be excluded but the students and Mr. Ross were drawn into the wave to much to realize that it was making no one be able to be an individual anymore, instead everyone was acting the same and overall practically be the same person, all following one leader, Ben Ross. Nearly all of the school had been manipulated into believing in the wave except for a few students. One of these students was Laurie. Laurie had started off questioning the wave and what it meant and she soon sees what it’s doing to the school and her friends. Being the head of the schools newsletter, she uses this to her advantage when she writes a special edition of the paper to try to show everyone the bad side of the wave after she gets a worried letter from an unknown author from the school and after there was a Jewish boy that had gotten beaten up. After reading the newsletter Ben Ross quickly realizes he needs to stop the experiment as quickly as possible but for the other student of the school they all felt differently and Robert said “she has to be stopped” (chapter

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