In our class 7/8 we are reading a new book called The Wave by Todd Strasser. I read up to chapters 1-4 and so far the book seems ok.

A few events in the book are there’s a girl Laurie who’s boyfriend is David a jock and her best friend is Amy Smith and a boy Robert who is a loner. So far the book takes place in school in a classroom and the teacher is Mr. Ben Ross who teaches history. Ben taught the kids in his class about World War Two and he showed them a documentary that took place in Germany between 1934 and 1945. It was about Adolf Hitler who turned to politics after World War One. Ben told the class that Adolf had said that the Jews were the destroyers of civilization and the Germans were a superior race. In the film the students saw a pile of dead people or starving people at death camps. A few of the students in the class were very upset like Amy and Laurie. After their class David, Amy, Laurie and Brian went to the cafeteria to eat lunch and that’s basically where the book leaves us so far.

If I was Amy in the story I wouldn’t really know what to do because she took it very seriously about watching that film and that made her really upset and down for the rest of the day. She wasn’t really into doing anything and didn’t really want to talk about what’s going on. I’m not really sure I would know what to because there’s nothing you really can do about what happened because it’s in the past but she still has a right to be upset.

What I think is going to happen in the next chapters 5-8 is I think that Amy and Laurie are going to take it very seriously and try to talk to people about it and try to start up a group and something big is going to happen which is going to switch to everyone around and make the school bad.