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Wave- Book Review

A BOOK REVIEW
of
The Wave
by
Morton Rhue

This story, based on a true incident that occurred in a high school in California, demonstrates how easily a group can lose its freedom without even realising it.
It all began when their history teacher, Mr. Ben Ross, let them watch a movie on how the Nazis in World War 2 tortured the people who opposed them. To give them a clearer picture, he decided to them in the situation itself.
He then introduced an organisation, The Wave, and its motto, "Strength through discipline, Strength through community and strength through action." A salute was also introduced to make them feel like a unit, where everyone would be equal. This was most rewarding to their class' loser, Robert Billings, as the other students often picked on him. As many as two hundred pupils in the school became part of it after Mr. Ross had encouraged his students to recruit more members. The sudden change from a bunch of unruly students to disciplined ones was......


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