The Wave (Laurel-Leaf contemporary fiction) by Todd Strasser
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Book Reviews of The Wave (Laurel-Leaf contemporary fiction)
Book Review: Realistic and scary
Summary: 5 Stars
This book really enlightened me. I supose i'v always been rather ignorant about about the truth of the nazi movement and the hesteria behind it. I, like the high schoolers in this book could not truely understand how millions of people could stand back and watch a mass geneocide. In all my reading i'v never come across an insidence that so clearly reduplicated the hearts of the Germin people during the third reich rule. It scares me to think that something like this really happened, and how willingly yet unconsciously they were brainwashed into the "cult". This is a very important subject and every one should have a taste of it. This and other warnings like it should be remembered and watched so the dreams of a mad man can never be relived fully. Like I said before a very enlightening book to the heart behind the faciast ideal.Book Review: should be standard in high school curriculum
Summary: 5 Stars
I never read this book in high school, although in my World History class, we watched the TV movie adaptation. I finally read this book when I began a career in psychology. This book was also particularly interesting because it actually based on events that happened in the town I lived in, and has since been etched into the town's history.Regardless of where the story takes place, it paints a painfully important lesson. It shows us how incredibly easy we could fall into a fascist society. No matter how much we talk about how ugly and apalling the Nazi movement was, it could easily be us. This story is also a prime example of why history is such an important lesson. It's not just for the knowledge of facts, but more importantly a lesson of how we should or should not lead our lives to avoid the same mistakes our forerunners made.
Book Review: The Wave
Summary: 5 Stars
I liked this book very much. I especially liked the mottos: Strength through Community! Strength Through Discipline! Strength through Action! My class read it and I liked it very much. I felt sorry for Robert Billings in the end. I wondered how Mr. Ross felt when he had to stop the wave. I mean, like, how would you feel like if you started something very sucessful and suddenly YOU HAD to stop it? I also felt sorry for the members of The Wave because Mr. Ross controlled them for such a long time, then saying "This is your leader. See what you've becoming?" It was very exciting, but it also teaches us a valuable lesson: Don't trust someone just because they are in a position of trust or authority. I guess I have learned that too after reading this book. This was a great book, and I'd wish to research more about WWII. Wouldn't you?Book Review: JUDGE THIS BOOK BY ITS COVER
Summary: 5 Stars
You can judge this book by its cover...but let me tell you...its cover ROCKS.
I read this book out of boredom. I was waiting for a few friends, saw it, picked it up, BAM, forget the friends because I was having fun reading about this wacky experiment. Based on a true story....well..lets just say some tricky stuff happens.
A lot of people are complaining because this book does not have a good character description piece like, say, harry potter, but I like that type of writing. I want to see the characters the way I want to see them. After all, even though the author wrote it, the images are different for everyone who read the book.
Wicked awesome book. It could be read my an elementary school student, but definitely can be enjoyed by someone in college.
5/5
Book Review: This book can teach many valuable lessons!
Summary: 5 Stars
I first encountered "The Wave" in the form of an after-school special on television in the early '80's. It made a huge impression on me and I located the book, which is even more descriptive of the events that surrounded Ben Ross and his class in 1967. I just finished using the novel in a university level course on adolescent development. The students were asked to link the book to their knowledge of conformity and idealism in adolescence. Most of the students had very strong opinions of the book-some positive and some negative-but the important thing to me as an instructor was that it had an impact on them. I would recommend this book to any parent of teens or any teacher trying to get across to kids today the horrors and atrocities of the Holocaust and how such a tragedy occurred.