The Wave
Alternate cover edition for ISBN 0440993717The Wave is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969. The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history...
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Alternate cover edition for ISBN 0440993717The Wave is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969. The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. And before long "The
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Laurel Leaf Books
Pages no: 143
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
European Literature,
Read For School,
Realistic Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Psychology,
German Literature
For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleWhile the book is written in a simple way without much character development, its story is so eerie and engrossing that it is easy to get caught up in it regardless. I didn't much care for the writing (perhaps because it is intended for a younger audie...
This chilling story ought not to be necessary, since anyone looking at the history of Nazism could see that the German people were no more evil than any other people. Inevitably though it is instructive to see a psychological of totalitarian control played out in the context of an American high scho...
Scary.
Kann sich einer von Euch noch an den Film erinnern? Mir ist er sehr stark im Gedächtnis haften geblieben, denn er war einer der wenigen "lehrreichen" Filme, die in der Schule gezeigt wurden und mich auch tatsächlich gefesselt haben.Von der Grundidee her ist das Werk grandios, denn es beschäftigt sic...
"You thought you were so special!" Ross told them. "Better than everyone outside of this room. You traded your freedom for what you said was equality. But you turned your equality into superiority over non-Wave members. You accepted the group's will over your own convictions, no matter who you had t...
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