Bibliograph

The Wave, Todd Strasser

Type

Label

The Wave, Todd Strasser

Language

eng

Main title

The Wave

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Todd Strasser

Summary

This novel dramatizes an incident that took place in a California school in 1969. A teacher creates an experimental movement in his class to help students understand how people could have followed Hitler. The results are astounding. The highly disciplined group, modeled on the principles of the Hilter Youth, has its own salute, chants, and special ways of acting as a unit and sweeps beyond the class and throughout the school, evolving into a society willing to give up freedom for regimentation and blind obedience to their leader. All will learn a lesson that will never be forgotten

Target audience

adolescent

Classification