It's about Ben Ross, an intelligent history teacher that decides to perform an experiment on his class called “The Wave”, which at first started out so simple and small, until The Wave became unstoppable and spread around the school in such a short period of time, affecting many people. This essay will express how high modality language, descriptive language, symbolism, dialogue, emotive language, persuasive language and rhetorical questions are used to teach us about conformity, power and manipulation. Through the prevalence of conformity in The Wave, Morton Rhue is able to shape our knowledge of the real world. Conformity is evident when members of a society act defiantly to the norm and set a standard for others to follow. Naturally as humans we either follow or lead, as one takes the podium others bask in their glory and direction.
(Card 19) Even in the middle of the book when Ender is confiding in Bean, he states that he felt he could not lose any of the battles, for some reason which he did not reveal (Card 197). This drive is so embedded into Ender’s personality that even he can not understand it himself, or it is so personal he can not even reveal it to one of his closest companions while at the school. This gives Ender a passion that soon boosts the rest of his army, and they too come to realize that being good is not enough; they have to be superior. Although these are just three characteristics that explain why Ender is such a great leader, there are many more reasons listed in the
Nick Ladd Professor Fair English 243 24 February 2014 In “Of the Coming of John”, by W.E.B. Dubois the main character was John Jones, and he struggled to find his own identity. Sent away to school with the promise of “When John comes home” (Page 166), he found that he had been kicked out. He still felt the pressure to do well from his obligations to his hometown, and after working pushes himself to get through school. With this education comes a “lifted veil’, for he can now see the world around him as all other educated persons can.
Ricky choses the hardest books imaginable. He believes in reading up on what others have to say about a difficult book, and then making up his own mind about it. He says that part of the reason he feels this way is because of his teacher, Mr. Buxton, who taught him Shakespeare in 10th grade. Ricky shares how Mr. Buxton met him one night to go over the text line by line, but he didn’t share the conclusion with Moody, he left that for him to figure out on his own. Reading Umberto Eco’s “Role of the Reader” in college, Ricky states that, “The reader completes the text, that the text is never finished until it meets this voracious and engaged reader.” Although there are critics who believe there is a right and a wrong way to ready books, Moody says, “I believe there is not now and never will be an authority who can tell me how to interpret, how to read, how to find the pearl of literary meaning in all cases.” Part 2.
| Tyler Hires Mr. Svetanoff English 10 Advanced March 3, 2013 The Moral Game Everyone at one point in his or her life has felt frustrated because the “grown-ups” don’t care about the bullying going on, or they feel that they are setting too high of standards. This concept is in the book Ender’s Game, and that is one of the many reasons why this book is still relevant today. Ender’s Game
His unorthodox methods not only taught the boys to think for themselves, but they also awoke the boys’ inner desires and dreams. This movie does an excellent job of portraying the school’s four pillars (tradition, honor, discipline, and excellence) and the four I’s (individualism, innocence, intuition, and imagination) through members of the Dead Poets Society, specifically Todd Anderson and Charlie “Nuwanda” Dalton. Todd Anderson showed the best understanding of the philosophies of transcendentalism, notably Ralph Waldo Emerson’s. Todd failed to follow Emerson’s philosophy of “Imitation is suicide” until the very last minute of the movie, when he daringly stood up on his desk and called out “Oh Captain, my Captain!” to Mr. Keating. He could not hold in his guilt anymore because he felt bad for conforming, or imitating, what the other members of the Dead Poets Society had done in Mr. Nolan’s office.
He was doing well in the School but he was depressed in the school and had tension on his mind. And then after some time Mazer Rackham became his teacher to teach him to become the best commander in the world. He had an army with the squad leader as the following: Petra, Bean, Alai, Crazy Tom, and
So when Scout doesn’t want to return to school, Atticus doesn’t just tell her that she has to go and that’s that; instead, he listens to Scout’s explanation of why she’s upset, and tries to make her see her teacher’s side of things before coming up with a compromise that makes Scout happier. ‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it’. This conversation between Atticus and Scout comes early in the novel, and helps the reader to appreciate the special bond between Atticus and his children. They respect him as their father, and they value his opinions and
He named himself a “scholarship boy”; a student with poor resource coming from an uneducated family who live in a foreign country but who has an enormous desire to improve himself. Unfortunately, to achieve his goal he forces himself to get apart from his own culture and his family. The miss of education of his parents was not helpful for him until the point that he felt dissatisfied and embarrassed of them. Even thought, they were always behind him; to make his success possible, “they evened the path” he said (627). His parents’ goals were really admirable.
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.