In chapter’s nine to twelve, the book starts to get more interesting and everything starts to change.

Chapter nine starts off with Mr. Ross not knowing what to do about the wave because all his students were getting caught up in it and there were good sides and bad sides of The Wave. Laurie and the people at the weekly editorial meeting were discussing the paper and they didn’t have any stories to write about. Carl brought up The Wave and everyone wanted to know about it. Laurie kind of hesitated at the starting but then she said ok, they could write about it but the other people at the editorial meeting had to find out what students thought of the wave. Later on Laurie was talking to her mom about The Wave and her mom still didn’t think it was a good idea. Mr. Ross got called down to the office to speak with Principle Owens about The Wave and it can’t get carried away.

The next day Laurie got a letter from a student telling her that two of the person’s friends joined The Wave because it sounded interesting and two weren’t sure if they wanted to join and the person didn’t want to. A member of The Wave explained how great it was to join The Wave and then the two people decided to join. The Wave member then told the person that if he/she didn’t join no one would be his/her friend and it would be too late. The person wanted to know too late for what? Laurie later saw Brian (one of The Wave members) fighting a student. David and Laurie were talking about The Wave and they got into a fight and broke up. Carl, Alex, and Laurie ran into each other and talked about making a club called The Ripple and members that aren’t part of The Wave join at Laurie’s house. Laurie talked to her dad about The Wave and a Jewish student got beaten up because he wasn’t a member of The Wave.

I think that basically all the characters have changed through the story. Robert isn’t the same person, he used to be kind of a slacker with his hair not combed and he had D’s in school. He later changed into a whole different person who has friends in The Wave group; he tucks in his shirt, combs his hair and is always prepared for class. David also changed because he was a popular foot ball player with a girlfriend who doesn’t really pay attention in class. He is now really focused in class and brought up The Wave to the football team and uses The Wave in football and history class. By David using The Wave for foot ball they are now doing a lot better and hoping to win some games. 

I don’t think The Wave is going to go well because everything is going too far and getting carried away. Mr.Ross doesn’t even realise how far this is going. More and more Wave members are joining and he probably won’t be able to stop it. Some students are even being threatened to join The Wave. I think a lot of the parents are going to go to the school and complain but nothing is going to be able to be done because the student’s will keep carrying on. Once Laurie writes about The Wave in the newpaper, the story is going to spread on through the town and worse things are going to happen.