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Rhue, Morton - The Wave - Referat
Rhue, Morton - The Wave
Chapter I
Content:
Laurie Saunders sits in the publications office of the school paper “The Gordon Grapevine”. She is angry about that fact, that the school paper always appeared too late. Then Laurie fetches up her best friend Amy Smith, who is sitting in the French lesson of Mr. Gabondi.
The history teacher of Amy Smith and Laurie Saunders Ben Ross prepares his stuff for the coming lesson. But his technical inability makes for him a big problem so he decides to get through the last class tests. After time few minutes the pupils enter the class room and Ross asks David Collins to manage the film projector.
Later where he hands out the papers he wants no doodled paper and messy homework anymore.
Comments:
In the first chapter Morton Rhue presents the important roles in the book. He describes some persons better detailed and some less.
Characters:
Laurie Saunders: a pretty and smart girl with short light-brown hair, she is the editor chief of the school paper “The Gordon Grapevine”, reliable, popular, diligent
Amy Smith: a good-looking, intelligent and small girl, she is the best friend of Laurie
Mr. Gabondi: a old man, he is the french teacher of Amy, he teaches the pupils in the most boring way he can do
Ben Ross: a young and married man, he is history the teacher of Amy, Laurie, David, Robert, Brian and many others, he is not technical talented, he has taught at the Gordon High School for two years, ambitious, charismatic, creative and “contagious”
Christy Ross: she is the wife of Ben Ross, she teaches music and choir at the Gordon High School, she does technical things at home
Brian Ammon: a quarterback on the football team, a pupil of Ben Ross, he could do good tests if he uses his brain
Robert Billings: he is the class loser, he always gets bad tests
David Collins: a running back on the football team, a handsome boy, he does good tests
Questions:
1. Why is Robert Billings so bad in school? Could he write betters marks if he uses his brain, learns for the tests or is he just stupid?
Time:
Day 1 - It is in the morning. Few minutes before the history lesson
Vocabulary:
to be upset – the opposite of to be happy, to be unhappy
to endure – to stay calmly, to be patient
to peer – to watch sth. or sb. and hiding himself for an other
Chapter II
Content:
Mr. Ross shows his class a film of the World War Second. He shows, people in the concentration chambers, they look like skeletons. He gives also comments to the film.
The film finishes and many pupils ask him why could the Nazis be so incredibly cruel and why nobody tried to stop this cruel. Ben Ross answers to questions the best he can but he doesn’t know all the answers to their questions.
Still a lot of pupils have questions but the school bell rings and the pupils go to the cafeteria and its front David Collins. Laurie and Mr. Ross still discuss about the movie and Robert wakes up from his nap.
Ben Ross tries to help Robert and says to him that he has to fail him this year if he does not start to do something. But Robert does not care about his future life.
Comments:
I think one of the most important sentences in this book is: “…I would never let such a small minority of people rule the majority.” [P. 16/L.8-9]
Characters:
Laurie, Amy, Mr. Ross, Brian, Robert, David, pupils of their class
Questions:
1. Why does Robert sleep during the lesson? Doesn’t he care about the school?
Time:
Day 1 - During the history lesson
Vocabulary:
to starve – to give someone nothing to eat just a piece of bread
heinous – very ugly
to bother – to care about sth. or sb.
sick – here: very disgusting and heinous
Chapter III
Content:
David Collins and Laurie Saunders sit in the cafeteria and talk about Robert Billings who sits alone at a table. Laurie means, her mother knows his mother and he isn’t really stupid but he behaves very strange at school. Laurie is so bothered about that film, that she can’t eat her food so David eats it.
Few minutes later Brian Ammon and Amy Smith come and after a small discussion they sit next to Laurie and David. They talk about football, about The Grapevine, about calculus and about the film. Amy feels similar to Laurie. It bothers her, too. Just David and Brian don’t bother it, they say, it happened once and never again.
Laurie and Amy go to the publications office of The Grapevine, smoke cigarette as suddenly somebody knocks on the door and says he is Principal Owens. Nervously do they drop their cigarette through the window. Laurie opens the door and it isn’t Principal but Carl Block and Alex Cooper. Both work for The Grapevine. She asks them when they finish their articles. Before she speaks this sentence out of her mouth they leave the office so fast they can.
Comments:
Also an important statement comes from David Collins “I just said it’s over now. Forget about it. It happened once and the world learned its lesson. It’ll never happen again.” [P.21/L.23-24]
Characters:
Laurie, David, Robert, Amy, Brian
Carl Block: a tall, thin guy with blond hair; he works for the The Grapevine as the investigative reporter; he is the practical joker in Gordon High
Alex Cooper: more weight than tall and black; he works also for The Grapevine as the music reviewer; also a famous practical joker in the school
Questions:
1. What is in the head of Robert Billings? He sleeps in the lesson but in the lunch break he is wide-awake and reads a Spiderman comic
Time:
Day 1 - Lunch time
Vocabulary:
Preoccupied – to be very busy
To be bummed out – to be very upset, sad
Slyly – to know what’s going on, knowingly
Chapter IV
Content:
Ben Ross sits in his kitchen and reads a book about the "Third Reich" because he doesn’t understand why he wasn't able to answer the student's questions. He can not imagine the behaviour of the majority of the German population. His wife Christy arrives home from a tennis game but her husband is still involved in his books until the deep in the night.
Comments:
There are first indications for the course in the story.
Characters:
Ben & Christy Ross
Questions:
No Questions
Time:
Day 1 - In the evening
Vocabulary:
Uninterrupted – opposite of interrupted
Chapter V
Content:
On The next day, Ben writes the sentence: STRENGTH THROUGH DISCIPLINE. He tells that it usually takes much discipline and energy to be successful. Then he and his class play a little game. The pupils have to sit very straight on his seat. Then they have to walk around the room until he says to go back to their seats. The students run back to their seats very disorganized. After many other tries and advice of Ben the class run back in less than sixty seconds.
Ben continues the game and asks the class questions about the Second World War, which they have to answer like that for Example "Mr Ross, the Jews!" Everybody is intrigued by this game but Mr. Ross doesn’t want to continue the game.
Comments:
Ben Ross shows in an impressive way how good he can teach the class.
Characters:
Ben Ross and the same class (Laurie, Amy, Brain, David, Robert & Co)
Questions:
1. What consequences can this game bring for the story?
Time:
Day 2 - In the morning
Vocabulary:
Eerie – not normal and make someone frightened
Chapter VI
Content:
When Ben arrives in his lesson the whole class is already waiting for him. Every student is sitting stiffly in the posture Ben taught them the previous day. Ben is surprised but he continues the game. He goes to the blackboard and adds "COMMUNITY" underneath the "STRENGTH THROUGH DISCIPLINE" from the day before. Then Ben tells his students that the new organisation that they are just going to create will be called "The Wave", its motto will be "Strength Through Discipline, Strength Through Community" and they also creates a special salute for all members.
In the afternoon David meets the football team and they talk about the fact that they never win. David thinks to practice what he had learned in Mr. Ross’ history lesson so he starts telling them about "The Wave".
Comments:
“The Wave” starts to join some people for their group.
Characters:
Ben Ross; the class (Laurie, Amy, Brain, David, Robert & Co); the Gordon High Football team
Questions:
1. Could Mr. Ross know that it would so end terribly?
Time:
Day 3 - In the morning
Vocabulary:
To join – for example to join in a football club
Chapter VII
Content:
In the evening, Laurie tells her parents about “The Wave”. Her mother thinks very sceptical about this but her dad does support it. Laurie tries to make her understand that’s not dangerous and her history teacher is the only teacher in Gordon High who makes the lesson interesting.
Ben doesn't stop reading books about the Second World War, although he has to cock the meal.
Comments:
In this chapter do we see the first scepticisms against “The Wave”.
Characters:
Laurie Saunders
Mr Saunders: the father of Laurie Saunders; he is a manager of a factory; he plays golf
Midge Saunders: the mother of Laurie Saunders; she is politically talented woman; have a patient like an angel and know most of the problems of her daughter
Mr. Ross and his wife
Questions:
1. What a role has Laurie’s mother for the following story?
Time:
Day 3 - In the evening
Vocabulary:
Chapter VIII
Content:
The next morning, when David picks up his girlfriend, they discuss the opinion of her mother that Ben is manipulating his students. In class, every student receives a membership card and some of them are marked with a red X on the backside. This means that the persons who get these special cards are the monitors and have to tell Mr. Ross if the others don't observe their rules.
At lunch time all members of the group also Robert Billings sit together and discuss about their new founded community.
Comments:
This chapter shows the positive way of this new founded group. Robert Billings, the ‘famous’ class loser, gets to know the others of his class and talks with them in the public.
Characters:
Ben Ross and his class
Questions:
1. Why do suddenly Laurie and her friends accept Robert Billings?
Time:
Day 4 – In the morning till lunch time
Vocabulary:
Monitor – a person who has to watch if people obey the rules
Pleased – similar to satisfied
Chapter IX
Content:
Ben Ross thinks about the consequences of “The Wave”, that the pupils don’t questioned behind some issues they’re answering and that it is just a simple Question-Answer lesson.
Laurie and some other reporters of The Gordon Grapevine sit in the publications office and discuss about the main topic of the next school paper which has due out next week. Then Carl proposes to write an article about "The Wave" because at the moment everybody in school is interested in it and nobody really knows what it is actually.
Late at night Laurie sits at her desk and does her homework then her mom enters in the room and talks about “The Wave”. She says it is like a cult and that Robert’s personality has changed dramatically in these few days and that sound not normal for her. Laurie starts thinking similar to her mother but she bothers about her best friend Amy.
Comments:
Not only Laurie also Ben Ross, the inventor of the “The Wave”, thinks about things that changed and happened when he started this game.
Laurie publishes now her real feelings to her mother and that she criticizes this special game.
Characters:
Ben Ross, his class and some other pupils; Laurie Sanders, Alex Cooper, Cal Block and other editors of “The Gordon High Grapevine”; Midge Sanders
Questions:
1. Could Ben Ross know that so many people want to join “The Wave”?
Time:
Day 5 – In the morning till late at night
Vocabulary:
Cult – group who does or follows strange religious things
Fad – when many people wear the same kind of clothes for a short while they call this a fad
Ecstatic – when someone feels happy that something changed so he is ecstatic
Chapter X
Content:
On the next day Ben Ross has to appear in Mr Owens office. On his way to his office Mr Ross thinks objectively about things that happened and that Mr Owens would be very angry about the new game he invented.
He comes in Mr Owens office and for his surprise Mr Owens isn’t angry he seems to be pleased slightly. He asks Mr Ross what “The Wave” is especially about. He tells him the whole story and Mr Owen is listening to him carefully. Mr Owens agrees to Mr Ross’ “philosophy” but he remind that he teaches impressionable kids and that he doesn’t want that their parents storm into his office and shouting him because of “The Wave”.
Comments:
Mr Ross thinks that he could stop this game how he wants if he is still the leader of “The Wave”.
Characters:
Ben Ross
Mr Owen: the principal of the Gordon High School; he is a tall man with a deep voice and believes in Ben Ross’ ambitions
Questions:
No Questions
Time:
Day 6 – Few minutes before school starts or in a break between the lessons
Vocabulary:
Impressionable – people who are easily influenced
Chapter XI
Content:
When Laurie opens the door of the publications office the next day, she finds a letter on the floor. The author is unknown Laurie just knows that the person is a junior. The anonymous author wrote what happened just few days ago: When he and some friends heard about "The Wave" they wanted to know what it is. So they went to one of Mr Ross' classes and when they left, a senior asked them to become a member. Two friends immediately agreed two others didn’t know yet. The senior convinced the two other friends and then he asked the anonymous author that if he didn't become a member he would lose all his friends. A few days later the senior asked him again if he had changed his opinion because if he didn't join soon it would be too late. All he asks himself now is: Too late for what?
Ben agrees that Robert becomes his bodyguard. He just remembers that for Robert this might be a part of the game to show that he is important.
Comments:
In this chapter do we see that they are first threatens against people who don’t want to join “The Wave”.
Characters:
Laurie Saunders
The anonymous author: a junior at the Gordon High School; scared of the fact that senior threatened him because he didn’t want to join the “The Wave”
Ben Ross, Robert Billings
Questions:
1. Why can be teenagers so cruel and impressionable?
Time:
Day 7 – In the morning
Vocabulary:
Focus – here: The juvenile crime is a focus in our society
Slightly – similar to a little bit
Withdrawn – similar to shy
Chapter XII
Content:
Laurie observes a fight between Brian and the junior named Deutsch who has been after Brian's position on the football team. After a while, a teacher comes and separates the two to take them to Principal Owens. Laura talks with her boyfriend and David can’t understand her why she is against “The Wave” suddenly.
In the publications office Laurie meets Alex and Carl, and they all agree that they have to stop “The Experiment”. So they decide to have an emergency meeting at Laurie's house only for non-Wave members on Sunday.
At night Laura stays alone and instead of her mother comes in her father enters her room. He says that he heard on the golf course, that a boy who didn’t want to join “The Wave” has been beaten. And the strange thing of this issue, that the person is a Jew! Mr Saunders also tells that a lot of parents want to talk to Principal Owens soon.
Comments:
“The Wave” has its first enemies. And it beats/”kills” one…a Jew!
Characters:
Laurie Saunders, David Collins
Deutsch: on the second position on the Gordon High football team; he wants the position of Brian; a junior and a Jew
Mr Saunders
Questions:
1. Was David angry about Deutsch that he didn’t want to join “The Wave”? Or was he also angry about him because he is Jew?
Time:
Day 8 – In the afternoon
Vocabulary:
Twilight – between evening and night
Ripple – a little wave
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