The Wave 9-12
In these next few chapters of the book we can really see how controlling the wave is and how everyone is reacting to it.
The book first starts off with the announcing that there is going to be pep rally but all of the kids are calling it the wave rally. Since Laurie is writing for the paper they have a meeting after school to try and figure out what to write for the next issue of the grapevine. Thats when a boy named Alex finally comes up with the idea to write a story on the wave since they are not in it they do not know what it is about. Laurie is the one assigned to write it so she takes it home. Her mother has a talk to her about how it is completely brainwashing and she starts to really see it herself. When she goes to school the next day they have the wave rally. Laurie is starting to go against it so she decided she is going to skip it. Soon after the hallway is covered with wave posters and booklets and Robert becomes Ben’s bodyguard. That is when the wave really takes control over David and he breaks up with her. After that when Laurie goes home she finds a not under her door which happens to be an article a kid wrote about the we for the paper. The next day at school when Laurie goes outside she sees this kid getting bugged about not joining then when she gets home that night her dad tells her a kid got beat up and that he was Jewish.
I think that the wave is starting to brainwash people so bad that the only thing they believe in or can ever really think about is the wave. They think that if you are not a part of the group that you do not deserve to be at school and that there is something wrong with you. I think that the kid that got beaten up didn’t want to join the wave because he was Jewish and because it went against his culture. This makes me really think about if the kids knew he was Jewish and if that was why they beat him up. I think that this has now gone way overboard because the whole school is under the wave and that is thew only thing people are really willing to learn about. They even changed the pep rally into wave rally so hey could recroute new members. I think that this is going to take a big turn in the book. I think that the wave is going to spread outside of the school and bad things are going to happen. I also think that Laurie is going to publish the story into the newspaper and that David will not be happy about it and that the rest of the group will get him to make her stop. I also think something surprising is going to happen and that Laurie is going to find out she is Jewish because it would really change the way the story is. It would help explain why she is against it and would shock everybody.
Your article was well done
i have never read the book the Wave sounds interesting. I wounder if she is jewish, but if her parents allowed her to go then there might be a huge possiblity that she isn’t jewish but her dad maybe. I hope you cointinue to blog about what happens in this book. I would really like to know if she is jewish or not.