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Laurie uses the Grapevine as a platform to investigate and explore the more sinister effects of the wave, and even exposes a violent attack on a Jewish student as Wave mania sweeps the halls of Gordon High. Laurie’s dedication to truth, individuality, and doing the right thing separates her from her classmates—and serves as a testament to the power of a single person’s free will in the ...
As The Wave swells through Mr. Ross’s classroom and later, all of Gordon High, Laurie rises as a moral compass and a staunch proponent of individuality, all amid mounting threats of violence in the school. She questions her peers’ blind devotion to Mr. Ross, stands up to Brad when he demands she give The Wave salute at the school’s ...
The Wave continues to swell in Chapter 12, as do tensions between its members and non-members when Brian and Deutsch fight again and Brian then chants the movement’s motto. Tensions later take on more ominous tones when a Jewish sophomore is beaten up, an event that recalls the rise of Nazism in Germany when Jews were frequently the targets of abuse and violence that foreshadowed the Holocaust.
At first, Laurie resists her mother's way of looking at things, but as The Wave grows, she starts to see that her loving mom is right. In the end, Laurie's relationship with her parents helps make a difficult and traumatic time in her life much easier to bear. A deep sense of belonging to this group (family) will give Laurie strength for her ...
The Wave: Chapter 12. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. As the Wave rally approaches, Laurie stands at her locker, feeling increasingly uncertain about whether or not she wants to attend. Something deep inside her is anxious about The Wave.
Analysis: Chapters 1–4. The Wave opens with a glimpse into Gordon High, a typical high school in the United States, along with its typical gamut of teachers and teenage students. The specific location of the school and the year the story occurs are noticeably absent, though this lack of detail is likely intentional, suggesting that the novel ...
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This exchange between Laurie, Ross, and two other members of the class, Brad and Eric, sets up many of the fundamental thematic questions that The Wave will investigate. The bystander phenomenon as well as the dangers of groupthink are at the heart of the classroom experiment that Ross will soon devise to give his students a “taste” of life in Nazi Germany—and though Eric and Brad claim ...
