Can you imagine reliving the time of the Holocaust? Well‚ in the book "The Wave" by Todd Strasser‚ the students of Gordon High School experience something similar to the Nazi Party take over. I couldn’t imagine what it’d be like to be in one of the students place‚ I wouldn’t know how to react to it if I were in their position. But while reading the book it was very realistic and had me wondering with every turn of the page. It all started when history teacher Mr. Ben Ross teaches his class about
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quote demonstrates one of the major themes in the book The Wave. Throughout the book‚ The Wave‚ by Todd Strasser‚ David is conflicted on whether to continue being a part of The Wave or not. He shows his internal struggles by being peer pressured into The Wave‚ by harming Laurie‚ and finally by realizing what a large mistake he had made in joining The Wave. In the beginning of the book‚ David is peer pressured into preventing Laurie from disbanding the wave. Strasser wrote‚ “Dave‚ listen. Robert is just
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The Wave‚ a novel by Todd Strasser (published in 1981) is based off of The Third Wave experiment by Ron James‚ which was inspired by Nazism. The setting of the novel takes place in Gordan High School 1969. Four main characters of the wave include: Ben Ross (“an outstanding young teacher”)‚ Laurie Saunders (“a pretty girl with short brown hair and an almost perpetual smile”)‚ David Collins (“ a tall‚ good looking boy who was the running back on the football team”)‚ and Robert Billings (“ a heavy
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But‚ soon it grew. The teacher who started The Wave gained power very quickly and even had a bodyguard. The students were all the same‚ many didn’t take the time to think for themselves. Soon‚ The Wave grew to the whole school. There were two groups‚ The Wave members and non-Wave members. Members would use The Wave as an excuse to bully and get in fights with non-member people. These students loved their leader‚ but soon it was
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that started normally‚ she just about lost everything in a horrific car accident. Her parents die instantly; she and her younger brother‚ Teddy‚ are left in critical condition. There are many differences between the book and movie that made both very appealing. The book and the movie portray the crash scene very differently‚ but both were emotional. After the car accident‚ Mia is wandering trying to get the attention of the firefighters‚ paramedics‚ police‚ and trying to find her family. “‘Dad‚’
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The movie was more intriguing than the book and was easier to comprehend the history. The movie helped me understand what was going on in the book. The movie caught my attention more than the book did. The movie emphasized more than the book did. I’d like to build on the idea that the movie helped me understand what was going on in the book because I wasn’t really interested in the book so I didn’t really take in all the history that I could in the movie because the movie was more action packed
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I like the movie a christmas carol more than the book. The story a christmas carol has been a very famous story for a long time. The move was better because you could see the actions the charters was taking. Every time the charters mood would change in the movie the lighting or the music would change. Some of the differences of a christmas carol book and a christmas carol movie is in the movie the mood changes a lot more and in the movie there’s a lot more detail .The book has detail but it does
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strange to me as we have never had before an assignment like this in Hungary. But after I have seen the movie Outsourced I was under a spell. It was really good to see the process of acculturation how Mr. Toad’s behavior and skills developed. In addition I love Indian culture‚ music and dance so it was really fantastic. Review and analysis of the movie: At the beginning of the movie Todd is told that he and his entire department are outsourced to India but of course he also has the possibility
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A BOOK REVIEW of The Wave by Morton Rhue This story‚ based on a true incident that occurred in a high school in California‚ demonstrates how easily a group can lose its freedom without even realising it. It all began when their history teacher‚ Mr. Ben Ross‚ let them watch a movie on how the Nazis in World War 2 tortured the people who opposed them. To give them a clearer picture‚ he decided to them in the situation itself. He then introduced an organisation‚ The Wave‚ and its
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The Book vs. the Movie The book‚ The House of the Spirits‚ by Isabel Allende is a fictional novel set in Chile in the 1930s through 1970s. The movie‚ “The House of the Spirits” was made in the 1990s from the book Allende wrote. Although the movie is similar to the book‚ many of the characters and event are different. Also‚ many of the important events that are in the book fail to exist in the movie. The beginning of the book and movie‚ it opened with Rosa. But‚ in the book‚ Rosa is a beautiful
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