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As Mr. Ross reveals that The Wave has only been an experiment and that its true leader is Adolf Hitler, he holds a mirror up to all its members. Within that mirror, they’re forced to face all their misdeeds and wrestle with the perils of blind conformity to a cause. Mr. Ross’s lesson and words, though, aren’t meant to hurt students.
Summary: Chapter 11. In The Grapevine ’s office, Laurie finds an anonymous letter from a junior to the editors. When the junior refused a senior’s invitation to join The Wave, the senior became angry and threatened that the junior would lose all friends as a result. The letter confirms Laurie’s growing fears about The Wave.
The Wave & Ben Ross:…. The wave is about a history teacher whose name is Ben Ross. His class was starting to study the time that Hitler began making all the Jewish people stay in camps. Ben Ross could not find a way to get his class interested in this time period, so he decided to try to make a group, He would play like a Hitler-type scenario ...
Nov 21, 2023 · The Wave Characters. Ben Ross - Ben Ross is a beginning social studies teacher who seeks to garner a deeper understanding of the support for Naziism during 1930's Germany. He begins an experiment ...
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Analysis: Chapters 5–7. Following the birth of The Wave at Gordon High, many of Mr. Ross’s students quickly embrace the movement, which begins to transform the novel’s main characters. In Chapter 5, after Mr. Ross writes “STRENGTH THROUGH DISCIPLINE” on the board, students get their first taste of how discipline can lead to power and ...
Ben Ross. A young, enthusiastic history teacher. He is extremely passionate about his job and loves taking on new projects. However, he easily becomes obsessed by his projects and does not always recognize their consequences for the people around him.
The Wave is a 1981 young adult novel by Todd Strasser under the pen name Morton Rhue (though it has been reprinted under Todd Strasser's real name). It is a novelization of a teleplay by Johnny Dawkins for the movie The Wave, a fictionalized account of the "Third Wave" teaching experiment by Ron Jones that took place in an Ellwood P. Cubberley High School history class in Palo Alto, California.
