At What Point Does The Wave Get Out Of Control In The Crucible

Young David is being scolded by his teacher Miss Chestnut for getting up during class 28 times to lick the light switch, pencil sharpener and among other things. She decides to send a note home with David to tell his mother that she will be visiting to talk about his behavior. While this takes place, there is another form of a power struggle going on inside a young David’s head his OCD is whispering to him that he needs to do abnormal things such as smack the heel of his shoe to his forehead.

David's instructor was intimidating, rude, and somewhat abusive, but despite these things he used her behavior as a motivator to succeed. David was not about to give up and he: "refused to stand convicted on the teacher's charge of laziness," and due to that, he studied for 4 or more hours every night because he was determined to stand out (Sedaris, 1999). David clearly had a reaction to his teacher’s approach, which created a sense of urgency and a need to excel. His choice to persevere, despite her attitude, caused him to work hard, and he was once again able to use humor to get through by adding jokes to his responses to her quizzes. This whole experience shaped him into a better person and made him

Laurie sees it as something that takes away a person’s own thinking. “…The Wave has become an obsession with everyone. No one is thinking for themselves anymore.” (pg.105.)

Throughout the entire movie we can see that David is the character that changes the most. David is portrayed as a nerdy and lazy teen that spends all his time watching the show pleasantville and eating junk food. The director shows us that his life at home is not really good and his only escape is while watching pleasantville. When he gets teleported into the show and town Pleasantville he’s stuck in the traditional way of living there, not changing anything and constantly worrying about his sister Jennifer altering the entire town. His fear of change sprouts with the worry of the disturbances his sister will create. In this circumstance the power of fear leads him to be controlling of the situations. We can see this how he tries to control the change when he finds out Mary Sue has been intimate with Skip and this creates a domino effect for

David must pretend, not just for the remainder of the novel, but for the next forty years, to be ignorant of Frank’s crimes, and much of what is happening because his parents do not realise that he has

An important idea in The Wave is ‘words can be used for harm or for good’. This idea means that words can be used to hurt people mentally and create bad things, but, at the same time can cheer a person up and change their life in a good way. The confusing thing is, is that good words can also be bad. For example, if someone said that they won their basketball game and you said ‘good’, then that would be a good thing to say. It’s also quite the same with harmful words. In The Wave, this conundrum is used in a smart way. For example, Ben Ross is taking his first class with The Wave as a base when he introduces the line,

Uncle Frank’s action needed to be punished because he was racist and did not have respect for women and especially the Indian people. This transforms David from the young clueless boy into a young even maybe adult person he is by the end of our novel knowing more than maybe even modern day adults about how hard life is and how cruel the world can

David’s first impression of his teacher was: She’s mean and very sarcastic with her responses. At that point he knew he was in trouble. So, he

For example, when Laurie tells David that her mom thinks that Mr. Ross is manipulating them, David argues “‘She’s crazy… How could she know? And besides, what do you care what your mother says?’” (Strasser 56). This illustrates that David is a conformist of The Wave because he already believes that everything about it is right, and all non-conformists are wrong.

A group of students of the class had to determine who the cheater was and it was between Charley and David. The author foreshadowed the outcome of this situation when David agreed that the students should decide who was the cheater even though he knew that this wasn’t at all in his favor. The students automatically blamed David because of his religion, again showing prejudice. For example, someone in the group of students said, “What’s the matter with you Reese, you know he [Green] cheated, we all know how Jews are like”. Most of them have no doubt in their minds that David was the cheater because of his religion. As predicted, the students call in both Charley and David to tell them that they believe David was the one who cheated on the exam. They had no valid evidence to prove David was guilty of cheating other than the fact that he’s Jewish which is in many ways immoral and prejudiced. Once David was exposed as a Jew his friends view of him shifted and immediately had a preconceived opinion of

The Wave changed his behavior,

About halfway through the book, David goes diving with his tour guide and romantic interest, Judith Ressner (Deutermann 224-228). This is heavily influential towards the plot because during the dive, David is attacked by a masked diver who threatens him with a boomstick before sticking it into a nearby tourist’s face and killing her instantly. This event is also incredibly important towards the plot because without it, david would never have known that the israeli secret forces were after him and he would never have discovered the conspiracy plaguing the israeli government.

David is consumed by the wave and makes it his life like make others who “drank the kool aid.” While Laurie will not let it take her and will do whatever she can to fight the wave and create awareness. Both Laurie and David are strong minded and rational people who have unbroken wills. But when the wave comes along we see how long it can take till someone realizes how wrong it really is and stands up for what is right. In the end we see how much a Man can take until he realizes what he's doing is wrong, when David grabs Laurie and throws her in the

Throughout the interview with Mrs, she raised concerns about David’s poor impulse control as well as his aggressive behavior as a way of managing stressful situations. She denied observing any auditory/visual hallucinations in David; however, she noted that David does not interact with others and is into himself. Further, David tends to talk to himself which usually is repeating phrases he has heard before. Mom also shared that David has difficulty falling asleep

Many would argue that I was too young to experience that, too fragile .To be honest, I should have known it could happen , but when you are six or seven years old , some things do not always make sense. When it happened I was very hurt, not physically but mentally and it felt like when someone slaps you or when you are drowning and cannot breathe . That rough sensation in your throat , the sting of a bee , the feeling of not knowing .I am not the same anymore, or I do not know ,maybe this is who I was supposed to be , no way to tell now. I will always remember David.