The Wave Failure

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The Wave was an experiment conducted by Ben Ross to teach his students about life in Nazi, Germany in the 1940’s. If that person were already a wave member their job was to recruit new people in, so as a way to get other kids to join the recruiters would bully, and force other kids into joining; in a sense it was like hazing, being forced to do what you don’t want to do. Another reason was because these students really didn’t have much information about Ben Ross their teacher and so it lead people following a leader blindly, which is a very bad thing. Being on the unsuccessful side of this argument this is why the wave was bad (card stacking). The Wave was a complete failure. The Wave discriminated against the people who refused to join. For example Laurie received a letter from an anonymous junior, “If I didn’t join soon, he said it would be too late” (Stassor 82). Eviidently this whole “experiment” was starting to lead to its downfall. Also another thing was Laurie’s father came home from playing golf and he questioned her about the discrimination going on in school because there was a fight that happened, obviously Laurie thought nothing of it but then he said, “But Laurie the boy is Jewish” (Strassor 92). Understanding that this isn’t the only reason for the boy getting beat up, but if conclusions can be drawn as to why an event like that happened …show more content…

Mr. Ross said that, “At five o'clock there will be a rally in the auditorium- for wave members only” (Strassor 124). Here’s where blindly following a leader comes in, he didn’t tell them that he was going to stop the wave, but he did however lie and say that they were basically starting a revolution. Also Ben thought of himself as “confident of his control as their leader” (Strassor 62). Now around this time he was becoming too big headed (namecalling) about it because with that much control over a small population the power will start getting to someone’s

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