Things That Occur In Laurie's Experiment

In this quote Bethany, the narrator is describing the surfing and its pros and cons. This quote is significant because it she shows why surfing is important to her.She describes the overall negative consequences of surfing but how its apart of the game. In the end all Bethany wants to do is surf and she will overcome anything to surf.

First, Laurie and David’s dialogue during the first stages of The Wave helps describe their original beliefs and thoughts on the new idea. For example, during the first stages of The Wave, Laurie discusses her thoughts with her peers. “ ‘‘I don’t know,’ Laurie said, ‘ But doesn’t it feel a little weird?’... ‘Thats whats so great about The Wave.’ Amy replied. ‘You don’t have to

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,

The narrator is hesitant in his first interactions with the wave, as humans often are in love, and may be intimidated by the idea of romantic love.

The Wave is a story about a high school senior class that has been intrigued to join their teacher’s cult known as the Wave. Several people tried to prevent the denial of his movement. Laurie Saunders the main character in the wave, is a rebellious girl who is very ashamed of this movement and is not inspired by her history teacher. He shows them a very emotional video of what Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party did. Some of the students take it more personal than others do. Because of Laurie’s bravery, independence, and determination, Laurie denies the Wave.

He felt almost as if he were coming out of a trance. What had possessed him these last few days that could cause him to do something so stupid?” This quote shows me that David is in shock. He got frightened by his own actions. He no longer had a voice to speak for himself. The Wave was pushing him to fulfill certain actions. He then realizes that The Wave has possessed him to do certain things he would never even think about. He hurt his own girlfriend, the one he loved, in the name of The Wave. At this moment, both Laurie and David agree that The Wave has to end before anyone else gets hurt. Even though this was a classroom experiment, they now both perceive that it is causing harm in many ways. People are losing their individuality and are relying on The Wave to make the choices and actions for them. David obviously did not mean to do this, which is why it is obvious that The Wave has gotten out of

Is it possible to lose oneself and have the life drained out of him or her by another’s misdeed? It most certainly can, according to Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak. Anderson’s novel revolves around a fourteen year old girl named Melinda Sordino, who was raped at a summer party. Traumatized and not sure of what to do, Melinda calls the police, but leaves in fright as chaos breaks out and several are arrested. Melinda then starts off her freshman year of high school loathed by nearly every student at Merryweather. Her inability to inform someone, anyone, about what really happened that night leads to her disintegration physically and mentally. However, certain activities, such as her art class and a tree Melinda is assigned to create,

A theme evident in the story is believing everything you hear can end in a negative conclusion. Throughout Charles, Laurie’s mom is listening to her son and believing everything he says about Charles. This leads to her making bad assumptions about kindergarten for Laurie. In the story, Laurie’s mom is talking to her husband and she says “Do you think kindergarten is too unsettling for Laurie?” The dad responds with “ It’ll be alright, bound to be people like Charles in the world. Might as well meet them now as later”. As a result of Laurie’s mom believing what her son told her, it led to the conclusion of her making bad assumptions of kindergarten being too unsettling for Laurie. Also, in the story, Laurie’s mom makes a bad assumption based on what laurie told her about Charles. She talks about his mother. She is at a PTA meeting and she

The waves in the beginning of the book represent the challenges that Young Ju will face in life, Apa says “you must learn to be brave” (Na 1) and Young Ju does just that. However, she shows reluctance at first to follow Apa’s advice, for standing up for herself is a problem for Young Ju. She aimlessly followed whatever her abusive Apa said, whether it be to wash the car, go to school, or anything to avoid a beating, but Young Ju becomes confident in herself, for she has friends, is first in her class, and eventually says no to her father for the first time. While being interrogated about her being seen with Amanda, Young’s forbidden-to-see American friend, Apa asks “Give me her number,” (Na 131) but Young Ju bravely covers her head and says no, knowing what will come next: a beating. Because of this exchange, the reader can see that Ju transforms from a girl who is fearful of her Apa, and follows every command he orders, to a woman who speaks up for herself and jumps the waves, even when she knows there will be consequences.

Eventually Laurie persuades her boyfriend (Wave member) that ‘The Wave’ is out of control and he agrees after nearly injuring her is a disagreement about the experiment. The two then take to Mr Ross to stop the social assesment, he

Eventually, Cora decides to teach herself how to surf. Margot is impressed. She also allows Jesse to help her. Margot teaches Cora how to deal with a rip tide and to use her instinct rather than fight with fear.

“A few feet from her locker, Laurie froze. There on her locker door, the word “enemy” was painted in red letters. Suddenly the loudest noise in the corridor was the quick, instant beating of her own heart (110)”. Laurie’s popularity changed dramatically throughout the story from being a popular girl who was dating a football player to him actually breaking up with her. Finally she changed from being liked by others to being hated by other people for publishing her article about the Wave. She described it as something awful and wrong. She was now the “enemy”. On the other hand, Robert Billings changed from a poor student who didn’t care about anything to a high level confident person. “Robert Billings trudged into the room he was a heavy boy with shirttails perpetually hanging out and his hair always a mess as if he never bothered to comb it after getting out of bed in the morning (p.7)”. In the beginning of the novel the other students were afraid to ruin their own images by hanging out with Robert and were always embarrassed by him. But when The Wave comes along he decides to make a change and gets involved. Robert was promoted by Ben Ross which made him a higher rank in the wave than anyone else. Robert began to be fully devoted to the wave which made a big change in his

Her family, friends, and faith helped her train for the competition. She learned how to pull up on her board with a handle special made to help her stay on the board while paddling out to the wave. After training so long, she enters the competition. With minutes left she was in third place, when the water became calm. Everyone was waiting on a wave, and all of a sudden Bethany Hamilton paddles out. Right before the buzzer sounds she catches the big wave. Bethany didn’t make the buzzer in time and looses the competition, but that didn’t stop her. Instead gave her joy about getting back out there and proving

Two of these characters were Laurie Saunders and Robert Billings. I feel that these two were the most impacted by the Wave. Robert Billings was impacted mostly in a good way by the Wave. Before it began, he was the class loser, and lived in the shadow of his “perfect” older brother. He was picked on by his classmates, and slacked off in class.

The wave knows little about the man and how to love him. She is a force created by nature as is he, but seems to be genetically programmed and unyielding in the sense that she can be nothing but water. She was created to be a life force for sea life. The man feeds her in many ways and Paz explains this symbolically when he states "The horrible fish he fed her laughed with ferocious smiles" as if to say for all his love he got little in return (Paz 854).