But teachers sexually exploiting minors comes across as harmless compared to the camp’s physical abuse and psychological manipulation. Her attraction to the self-absorbed adolescent, for which she loses her job and risks arrest for sexual abuse, is unconvincingly attributed to their mutual interest in manga and math. Narrator Garrett is an unlikely prisoner, an articulate genius incarcerated by his stereotypically heartless millionaire parents for having sex with his young math teacher. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of "The Wave" and realize they must stop it before it's too late.Strasser explores the intriguing topic of militaristic boot camps, described as a secret prison system with 4,000 to 10,000 teens, but he undermines his effort with implausible characters and tedious violence. And before long "The Wave," with its rules of "strength through discipline, community, and action, " sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students.
And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of "The Wave" and realize they must stop it before it's too late. The Wave is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969. All will learn a lesson that will never be forgotten. The highly disciplined group, modeled on the principles of the Hilter Youth, has its own salute, chants, and special ways of acting as a unit and sweeps beyond the class and throughout the school, evolving into a society willing to give up freedom for regimentation and blind obedience to their leader.
A teacher creates an experimental movement in his class to help students understand how people could have followed Hitler. This novel dramatizes an incident that took place in a California school in 1969.
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