"The Wave" book review

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Clara Mercado          Thursday 22nd November

Book review 1:

1. Tittle + authors's name + publisher, year of publication

2. A short biography and bibliography of the author

3. A short summary

4. A description of the main characters + their function in the story

5. Are there any autobiographical elements in the novel?

6. What struck you in the novel?

7. 10 words you had to look up in a dictionary + their meaning in English

8. Personal appreciation

Tittle: The Wave                

Author: Todd Strasser (Morton Rhue)

Publisher: Penguin UK

Year of publication: 1981

Todd Strasser in Langenau, Germany

Biography :

Morton Rhue like T.S Rue are the pen names of Todd Strasser. Todd Strasse was born in New York City on the 5th May 1950. He is an American author of more than 140 young- adult and middle grade novels. He was raised in Long Island and studied literature in college. After that he worked in the newspaper Times Herald Record for two years and for Compton Advertising for one year. He also founded the fortune cookie company.

Bibliography :

He published his firt book, Angel Dust Blues, in 1978. In 1981 he published Friends till the End and the same year under the pen name of Morton he published The Wave, that was his firt successful novel. During the next years he published a series of book called Help! I'm trapped in.. and other successful novels such as Give a boy a gun, The accident, Can't get there from here, Boot Camp and If I grow up. His newest series of book is called the The tardy boys.

Summary :

The story takes place during the late nineties in the USA, at Gordon High school. While the history teacher Ben Ross is showing his class a movie about World War II and the Holocaust, the students get upset and can't understand how the German people allowed this to happen. Ben Ross knew he couldn't give them a good answer to that so he decides to show them, and plans an experiment. He starts to teach them dicipline introducing some rules, and seeing that his class react well to this he decides to take the experiment further. He creates a group called “The Wave” and the motto of this group is “STRENGTH THROUGH DISCIPLINE, STRENGTH THROUGH COMMUNITY and STRENGH THROUGH ACTION”. Laurie Saunders one of the students is worried about The Wave and its effect on the other students while her friends are willing to expand this movement that is quickly growing in popularity. But soon Ben Ross realises that his experiment as gone to far and that he needs to stop it.

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Main characters :

Ben Ross: He is a young and energetic history teacher at Gordon High school. He's married to Christy Ross, another teacher. He is not a severe teacher, he is very charismatic and tries to make the lessons intersting for the students. That's why students like him and also because of his energy and creativity. He creates The Wave as an experiment to show his students how fascism can be embrace by the masses. His function in the beginning of the story is that he is the leader of the group. He is the ...

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