The Wave Chapters 9-12

In these chapters Laurie was in the papers office having a meeting with all the editors of the grapevine. They had a due date of when the paper had to be published but no one had a story to put in the paper yet. She was asking people if they had the story for their part of the news paper but everyone tried to make up some kind of excuse about why they didn’t do it. People thought about making stories and they had all kinds of suggestions and one was to make a story about The Wave. Laurie was not too interested in the idea so she didn’t write about it. Laurie was at home doing her home work and her mom was still worried about The Wave going to far. The next day Ben was in the faculty lounge having a cofee then someone told him the the principle wanted to see him. It was about The Wave and the principle wanted to know all about it and he didn’t want any complaints about it. Laurie was sitting in her office and she found and envelope that someone slid under the door it was a note that said : This is a story i have written for the grapevine: I was with my friends and we wanted to know more about the wave so we decided to go to his classroom. After we walked out this senior was standing there and they asked us if we joined the wave yet, we said no then he asked us if we wanted to. Two of my friends said yes the other two said that they didn’t know and i said no. Then he talked the two friends that said they didn’t know into saying yes and i still said no. The person that was trying to get me to join got mad and said that if i didn’t join everyone in the wave would not be my friends. So i walked away. After reading this Laurie decided she didn’t like the wave so she folded it up. Ben got out of the office and saw brad handing out pamphlets. Robert was following Ben and Ben stopped and turned around and asked why he was following him. Robert said that he was being his body guard and told him why, Ben said ok and kept walking. Laurie was still in her office looking out the window and saw two  kids fighting, she noticed one was Brian and when the teacher broke them up he shouted out the wave motto and the other kid said aw, shove it. David came into the office and told her about how the other person was Deutsh and that he was trying to steel Brians place. Then he asked if she was going to the wave rally and she decided she didn’t want to go or be in the wave anymore so David got mad and broke up with her. Laurie was talking to her dad and her dad told her about how Deutsh was jewish and that was why he didn’t want to join the wave because it reminded him of what happened to all the jewish people in germany.

Response:

I wonder why when the fight got broken up Brian yelled The WAve motto, I also wonder why David broke up with Laurie just because she wouldn’t go to The Wave rally. Another thing i wonder is who was the person that gave the grapevine the story about the wave.

I think that The Wave is dumb because their doing all of this just because they like to be disciplined, well thats what i think. I also think that brian and Deutsh fighting just because he wont join the wave is dumb too.

I think that everyone that is in the wave is taking it too seriously and that they should stop it because there is no point of it. I also think that David is dumb for breaking up with Laurie just because she didn’t want to go to the wave rally.

My favourite part is when Brian and Deutsh got into a fight, it is my favourite part because i like watching fights because they are fun to watch.

I think the wave is going to get really big but only a couple of people will be able to stop it and i don’t think David will be one of the people that will try and stop it because he likes it alot.

If i was one of the characters in the book i would try and stop the the wave right a way before it got too big for me to stop it.

A part that surprised me was when David got mad at Laurie for not going to the wave rally and then he broke up with her.