Literary
Wonders of Techniques
and
Characters
The Wave Propaganda
Plot
Points
Miscellaneous
Madness
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The Gordon
Grapevine article,
“Welcome to the
Wave-Or Else” was
written by this
person
Anonymous
Junior
After the rally, this
character tried to make
Mr. Ross feel better by
saying that the students
did learn something
from The Wave
Laurie
Saunders
This character thinks
the only reason The
Wave is so popular is
because students are
afraid to be against it
Christy Ross
This character
refers to The
Grapevine office as
“Anne Frank’s
attic”
Carl Block
This is Alex
Cooper’s job at
The Grapevine
Music
Reviewer
Principal Owens
gets agitated about
The Wave when he
learns it’s modeled
after this
Hitler’s Nazi
Germany
This character didn’t
let Laurie into the
football stands without
giving the salute (even
though he knew it was
silly)
Brad
These were the
mottos Mr. Ross
taught his class
(answer in the order
they were given)
“Strength through
Discipline;
Strength through
Community;
Strength through
Action”
This character said,
“It was like, when we
all acted together, we
were more than just a
class. We were a unit”
(Strasser, 37).
David Collins
This question from
this student is what
caused Mr. Ross to
begin The Wave in
the first place
Amy Smith asked,
“Why didn’t
anyone try to stop
them[Nazis]?”
(Strasser, 12)
This is the literary
technique most
frequently used by
Todd Strasser
Foreshadowing
This is how the
movie Mr. Ross
showed could be
considered an
example of
foreshadowing
The movie was
about the Nazis and
concentration
camps; The Wave
followers ended up
behaving like “little
Nazis”
When Laurie tells her
mom, “this is a
molehill and you’re
looking for a
mountain”(74) she’s
using this type of
figurative language
Idiom
These are three
propaganda
techniques that
members of The Wave
used to try to get new
people to join
Bandwagon,
Testimonial, Visual
propaganda
(posters, flyers)
According to Laurie,
this is the reason
that The Wave (even
with its propaganda)
can never be
successful
There will always
be people who
stand up to the
pressure and still
think for
themselves
These are two past
experiences that
demonstrate how
Mr. Ross becomes
obsessed with his
projects
When he learned to
play bridge; when
he was studying
American Indians
This was the
reason Ben
thought all of the
kids were “into”
The Wave
They actually
wanted the
discipline and
liked it
This event made
some Wave
members feel
more important
than others
Mr. Ross handed out
yellow membership
cards, and the ones
with the ‘x’ on the back
were for the students
who were the
‘monitors’
This event made
Norm Schiller
change his mind
about The Wave
Gordon High still lost
their football game.
Even though The
Wave got them
psyched, they still
didn’t know the plays.
Brian bought an extra
large lunch in order to
gain weight so he
won’t get pounded by
this team’s
linebackers?
Clarkstown
Ben Ross showed
his class the movie
so that they would
do this.
Think about
what they saw,
what he said,
and ask
questions
This story is based
on an actual event
that occurred in
_______ in the year
______
Palo Alto,
California in
1969
These are the
ways that Laurie
and Amy deal
with stress
Laurie chews on
her pens; Amy
smokes
These are the 3
lessons Mr. Ross
wanted the
students to learn
from this
experiment
We’re all responsible
for our actions; must
always question and
never blindly follow a
leader; never let a
group take your
individual rights
“If history repeats
itself, you will all
want to deny what
happened to you in
The Wave” This
quote means…
After WWII, many
Germans denied even
knowing about the
concentration camps
and the persecution of
millions of people