NAME: Alejandra Castaño Arango

The Wave.

ABSTRACT: Ben Ross is a weird teacher, he is a teacher who has something different
to teach, not just learn things by heart.
This is why his students distrust the stories he tells them of the atrocities that the Nazis
were doing during World War II.

The teacher does a dangerous experiment, which he never imagined.

the experiment was to demonstrate how
Authoritarian behaviors can be developed and implemented with the aim of
demonstrating that the situation in Germany is very easy to repeat.

1
Laurie Saunders was sitting in the Gordon Institute's publication room, biting the tip of
a pen Aurie heard the snap of her pen plastic breaking. His mother had already warned
him that one day he would bite a pen until it broke and that he would swallow a piece of
plastic, which would stick to his throat and drown him. The clock on the wall went. It was
only a few minutes before class was over. There was no rule that said you had to work in
the publications room during your free time, but everyone knew that the next edition of
The Gossip had to leave the following week ..

2
They were studying World War II and the film Ross had selected for his class was a
documentary that showed the atrocities committed by the Nazis in the concentration
camps. The students were impressed, they couldn't believe that the Nazis were so cruel.

3
At lunch the students were still impressed by what was seen in class. The movie had left
them without appetite

4
Ben Ross, he was restless, the questions the boys in the history class had asked him after
watching the movie had intrigued him. I didn't quite understand it. Why had he failed to
give an adequate answer? How inexplicable was the behavior of most Germans during
the Nazi regime? That afternoon, before leaving high school, Ross entered the library and
picked up a lot of books. Christy, his wife, was going to play tennis with some friends
and knew that he would have a good time to think without anyone interrupting him. Now,
a few hours later, and after consulting several books, Ben suspected that he would not
find the answer written anywhere. I did not quite understand.
I thought maybe some historians had failed to answer

5
. Ben Ross wrote on the board force on discipline, apparently the students disagreed ...
There was a general sigh in the classroom. It was already known that some teachers'
classes were heavy, but almost all students considered Ross's history to be quite good,
which meant that he didn't talk about stupid things like discipline. He began to set
standards, sit straight, walk around the room, exactly an experiment on movement and
posture. He put 3 rules: One: everyone must have paper and pencil to take notes. Two:
when you ask a question or answer it, you have to get up and stand next to your seats.
And three: the first words you have to say when you ask or answer a question are: "Mr.
Ross." It is understood?
6. the teacher to the phrase "FORCE THROUGH DISCIPLINE" added:
"COMMUNITY." —Community is the link that exists between people who work and
fight for a common cause. It's like bullying a barn with neighbors. He was trying to create
a movement, a team, a cause ... a commitment.
There were already seven students chanting the slogans, then fourteen, then twenty, until
it was the whole class who saluted and shouted in chorus: "Strength through discipline,
strength through community!"

7. Laurie Saunders told her parents about the community of which she was now going,
her mother did not agree, she believed that she was too militaristic, she believed that the
teacher was manipulating them, but her father did agree.
8. David and Laurie began a discussion related to the “wave” Laurie felt a tremendous
desire to oppose him, but he held back, since David was angry with Laurie's mother for
thinking that the teacher was manipulating them.
That day, when the students entered class, they saw that on the back wall there was a large
sign, with the symbol of a blue wave, and gave them a membership card, some were
marked with a red X. If they have a red X they were going to be supervisors and they had
to tell him if any member of La Ola who did not obey the rules.
The professor added the word "action" to the sentence.
It was La Ola that had given Robert courage to sit at the table with them and participate
in the conversation. If he started talking against La Ola now, it was like implying that
Robert had to sit back alone and not be part of his "community."

9. Ben Ross did not know very well what to do with La Ola. What had begun as a simple
story experiment had become a fad that was spreading outside the class, more people were
recruiting. They were about to publish the period, the idea of writing about the wave
arises.

10. The principal sent to call the professor, he was scared, since Ben thought that ending
the experiment also meant cheating the students who had decided to take part in it. It
would be like leaving them without the opportunity to see where La Ola could take them.
And he would also run out of the opportunity to guide them there, Ben was somewhat
confused. On the way to the office, he had convinced himself that the director was going
to bother him, but the man seemed to be in a good mood. The director suggested that he
be careful ... he said that sometimes we forget that they are teenagers and that they have
not yet developed the good judgment that they are expected to have one day. Sometimes,
if they are not watched, things can go too far.

The institute was full of posters of La Ola. All the members of La Ola seemed to be doing
some activity: recruiting new members, distributing information, preparing the gym for
the afternoon meeting ... Ben was almost overwhelmed.

11 Robert wanted to be Ross's bodyguard. Something was getting out of control. That
withdrawn and insecure boy was now a member of La Ola, serious and worried about his
leader. But a bodyguard? Ben didn't know what to say. 12. The meeting of La Ola was
being a great success. Laurie had decided to spend the time in the publishing room at the
bottom of the hall. It was the only place where he thought he was safe from the curious
looks of the boys, who would wonder why he was not at the meeting. Laurie didn't want
to acknowledge that she was hiding, but that was the truth. Things had fallen apart to that
point. You had to hide if you were not part of the movement.

13. On Sunday afternoon, Laurie and some members of El Cotilleo turned the Saunders'
dining room into a newsroom, in order to prepare the special issue dedicated almost
entirely to La Ola The special edition about La Ola would include the letter from the
young anonymous author and an article that Carl had written about the fifteen-year-old
boy they had hit. 14. The Wave was hurting people. And everyone follows the movement
like a flock of sheep.