Has this class experiment gone too far?

Reading the first 4 chapters of The Wave was great, but chapters 5 to 8 were amazing. I predicted that The Wave would go too far, and surely that has begun to happen. At first The Wave was just a classroom experiment, but now it is starting to move through the school which can cause big problems in the future.

In these 3 chapters some of the most important events happen. When The Wave started, it began in Mr. Ross’s classroom. He wrote ‘STRENGTH THROUGH DISCIPLINE’ on the chalkboard. When he explains this to the class they understand it. Mr. Ross tells them to sit with their spines straight, and their legs at ninety degrees, and parallel. Then Mr. Ross made the students get up, and go out into the hallway and run back to their seats. Next, whenever Mr. Ross asked a question, the students had to answer with ‘Mr. Ross, yes.’ or whatever the answer to the question was. When Mr. Ross came into the classroom the next day, all of the students sitting quietly in their desks in the correct posture that they had learned the previous day. Under ‘STRENGTH THROUGH DISCIPLINE’ Mr. Ross wrote ‘COMMUNITY’. He then took this to the next level. They now had a symbol, a name, a salute, a motto, a membership card and a uniform. At lunch the next day, all of the students sat together at one table. There was no such thing as a popularity contest anymore. Everyone in the Wave’s community was equal, and everyone was included.

I wanted to read on, but I could not. When I read these chapters, I felt that The Wave had already gone too far when they started with the salutes and the motto. I thought that these chapters were amazingly written. I cannot wait to read on to chapters 9-12. I predict that Mr. Ross will do something crazy, like have an assembly explaining The Wave, and how the students in the class have been being so well behaved since the start of The Wave. U also think that the teachers might start trying this in their classrooms and that is how it will be spread into the whole school. I want to think that the students will stop it, but I figured that they won’t if it already went that far with it. I think that the character Robert likes the group because everyone is being nice to him, and they are being equal.

I thought that these chapters had a lot of meaning in them, with all the events that happened. I chose a picture that represents control because I thought that the class was being controlled.

- Brianna