The Wave by Morton Rhue
Practise essay on Change
In the novel The Wave by Morton Rhue we see change occur in this novel when a classroom experiment designed to show students how to make people change and conform their behaviour to fit certain rules. The classroom experiment that the teacher created was the catalyst that caused throughout the schools behaviour and the students behaviour and attitude.
Robert Billings is a student who rarely pays attention in class and is always getting low marks and sleeping in Ben Ross’s history class. We see this early in the novel when Ben Ross is going through his class marks and comes across Roberts mark. “The other D was Robert Billings, the class loser. Ross shook his head .The Billings boy was a real problem”. In this quote we get a brief description of what type of student Robert is and the use action words emphasises the worry in Ben Ross. After the first wave lesson there is a sudden spark in Robert. Robert becomes a new person after the wave. Before the class commenced when all the student were walking in Ben Ross describes Robert when he says “He was a heavy boy with shirt tail perpetually hanging out and his hair always a mess. In this quote Ben Ross gives an outline of how Robert presents himself and shows lack in confidence. The use of formal language is used to describe how he looks. We first notice change in Robert after the first lesson of the wave when for the first time Robert is getting involved in the class instead of always sleeping. The second place we see change is after the class in the men’s room when Mr Ross watch’s Robert without him having any idea of him being and there and says “He was standing in front of the mirror tucking in his shirt and fixing his hair”. This strongly represents change in Robert after the wave lesson; it is as if The Wave has changed Roberts Perspective on things. Later through the novel we strongly see a positive change in Robert. From the class loser that always slept in class to a leader and
In the novel The Wave by Morton Rhue we see change occur in this novel when a classroom experiment designed to show students how to make people change and conform their behaviour to fit certain rules. The classroom experiment that the teacher created was the catalyst that caused throughout the schools behaviour and the students behaviour and attitude.
Robert Billings is a student who rarely pays attention in class and is always getting low marks and sleeping in Ben Ross’s history class. We see this early in the novel when Ben Ross is going through his class marks and comes across Roberts mark. “The other D was Robert Billings, the class loser. Ross shook his head .The Billings boy was a real problem”. In this quote we get a brief description of what type of student Robert is and the use action words emphasises the worry in Ben Ross. After the first wave lesson there is a sudden spark in Robert. Robert becomes a new person after the wave. Before the class commenced when all the student were walking in Ben Ross describes Robert when he says “He was a heavy boy with shirt tail perpetually hanging out and his hair always a mess. In this quote Ben Ross gives an outline of how Robert presents himself and shows lack in confidence. The use of formal language is used to describe how he looks. We first notice change in Robert after the first lesson of the wave when for the first time Robert is getting involved in the class instead of always sleeping. The second place we see change is after the class in the men’s room when Mr Ross watch’s Robert without him having any idea of him being and there and says “He was standing in front of the mirror tucking in his shirt and fixing his hair”. This strongly represents change in Robert after the wave lesson; it is as if The Wave has changed Roberts Perspective on things. Later through the novel we strongly see a positive change in Robert. From the class loser that always slept in class to a leader and