At the start of chapter 9 everything was still going good. Then as I got further through these chapters, it started to get very interesting.
Ben Ross noticed that his history class was expanding, he also noticed that they were completing their assignments easily and early. Some of the students that Ben heard talking said, that they really liked the wave, that discipline is good for them. Ben was very proud of himself, he broke up the popularity contest in the whole school. Then the story went to the publications office. Laurie and some other Grapevine staff were there too. They were there for an editorial meeting. All the staff didn’t have a story. One girl went to a movie and didn’t write a review of it because it was “to good”. Another girl was supposed to write on fashions, but their wasn’t any new ones since the wave formed. It is now just a T-shirt, jeans, and sneakers. It was just that because the wave had broken up the popularity contest, so people didn’t buy new clothes to be on top. One of the staff told Laurie that a 10th grader punched a hole in a window. Why? because he wanted to prove that you could punch a hole in a window without cutting yourself. He got 12 stitches. The rest of the staff told Laurie that everyone wanted to know about the Wave, she didn’t really want to write about it. She said that she didn’t know if she could.
Lauries mom came in her room and told Laurie how she couldn’t believe how Robert has changed. She said that before the Wave he would get bad grades and sleep in class, and now hes working in class,getting good grades. Mrs.Saunders said that after the Wave was over he would just go back to what it was before.
The principal called Ben to his office one morning, they had a discussion about the wave. The principal told him to keep an eye on the wave. In case it got out of control.
Laurie saw a letter in the publications office. She began to read it and there was no name on it and it said that him and 2 of his friends were walking down a hallway, and they all got bullied to join the Wave. The one boy didn’t though, he just said he didn’t want to join and he walked off with his friends. The person who bullied them in was a senior and he said “Join before it’s too late. In the letter it says Too late for what?
Somehow people got the idea that Ben Ross gave the “orders” to put up lots of banners and poster about the Wave. He was walking down the hallway and he noticed Robert behind him. Robert kept following him until Ben said what are you doing? Robert said that he was his bodyguard. AT first Ben said that he didn’t need one or want one, but after awhile he just OK Robert you can be my bodyguard. Laurie was at her locker when she heard a bunch of shouting, so she rushed to the window and saw 2 boys fighting, and a bunch of kids around them. One of the fighters was Brian, the other was the Junior that was trying to steal Brian’s position on the football team. Then David came by, he told Laurie that they were going to be late for the rally. They started a big fight because Laurie said she didn’t want to go, at he ned of that fight they broke up. Later that night her dad came in her room and told her that Boy got beaten up after school. The person that beat him up was in the Wave, the other one was a Jewish boy. Laurie just couldn’t belive it. Laurie told her dad that she was going to expose the whole thing.
MY favorite part was when the author was describing how the Wave was turning into something else. Like how the students randomly said the Ben Ross had ordered them to put posters and banner up everywhere int he school. Why the boys would be fighting, and what they were fighting about. I mean why would you fight someone because they didn’t want to join the wave? I really think that the Wave is turning into a cult or something. A member was fighting a boy who didn’t want to join, that seems like a cult thing. Like the Nazi’s killing Jews. At the end of the story a boy beat up a Jewish boy, is that what the Wave is turnin into? Are they following the path of the Nazi’s?
Dear Ben Ross,
Why are you still taking the Wave farther? You have got to stop it before everyone whos not in the Wave gets beat up. I mean, one boy got beat uo by Brian, who is in the Wave. Another boy qwas beaten up too, he was aJewish boy. Do you think that your students are following the Nazi’s ways? First beating up people that arent the same? thne move on to killing? All I know is that you have to stop the Wave before its too late. How are you going to stop the Wave though? I already imagine that you want to stop the Wave after hearing about this. I know I would want to stop it. I have some questions for you.
Did you know that the Wave would turn into this? I hope you didn’t know becausee then it would be your fault for people getting beat up.
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