Some students are excluded from the Wave, aggressivity grows and incidents are proving the teacher right and his position at the school is in jeopardy. The main question being 'how could people in Germany have followed and encouraged Hitler's regime?', there is no straight answer but that the sociological peer pressures and wanting to be part of a selected community are enough to lead to extremes. The movement's name is called the 'Wave'. Taking nazi Germany's authoritarian regime as the ground in which to base his experiment, the teacher leads the students from uniformity (and the people's natural tendency to follow and be part of a group) to the extremes of segregation of the ones who do not belong. This is the novelization of a true story about a History teacher's social experiment and its consequences. He had his own adjustments of sudden obedience from the students and letting that go. It was supposed to eradicate the cliques and make everyone equal, but then “The Wave” as the group was named started to feel more special than the students not involved.Īs things started to get dangerous the parents were contacting the principal and the teacher had to end it immediately. At first it started out positive, but then people started to be bullies and force people others into group. Then a symbol was created and mottos were created that the group chanted. Even the class creep/loser took on a new persona and cleaned up his act and got involved.
"The movement" took on a life of its own. The teacher did a lot of reading that night and decided to try an experiment to just last one class period. This student was very disturbed by the images she saw on the film shown in class and at lunch her boyfriend told her to let it go, it was so long ago and it couldn't happen again. The teacher couldn't answer this question.
A student asks why the Germans didn't do anything to stop the Nazi's from doing all of the horrific things they did. Set in a California Palo Alto high school in 1969, a high school history class is watching a film on Nazi's and the images of the monstrocities they did.
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