Who are, and what are your impressions of the following characters after those three chapters?
The main characters are a couple of students and a teacher named Ben Ross. The students you get to know are, Laurie Saunders, Amy Smith, David Collins, Robert Billings, Brian Ammon, Carl Block and Alex Cooper

I would say that Laurie Saunders is the main character, because it’s often in her perspective you see things. She’s also the one who doesn’t really believe that the wave is a good thing and that makes her different from the others.

Amy Smith is Laurie's’ friend who is a little bit shy and kind of lives in Laurie’s shadow. She’s like the third wheel to Laurie and her boyfriend David, she seems to be interested in David’s friend but is to shy to do anything.

Ben Ross is the teacher who introduced the Wave to the students. He seems to be a really good teacher that everyone likes and has a wife that loves him. When he wants to do something he dedicates his life to it.

David Collins is a guy who plays football and is Laurie’s boyfriend. He seems to be a funny guy who wants to help his football team that sucks. So he introduces the Wave to the team and it seems to work pretty good.

Robert Billings is a bullied guy that nobody likes. He is the one who gets most dedicated to the Wave because it makes him one of the gang because everyone is equal in the Wave.

You haven’t heard so much about Brian Ammon, but he is David’s friend and plays in the football team together with David. Carl Block and Alex Cooper are best friends and works at the Grapevine with Laurie, the are funny guys who are more independent than others because the do not join the wave.

Why did Mr Ross start his experiment?
He started it because he had gotten a question the day before why rest of Germany just lived with the fact that Hitler and the Nazi’s did what they did. So he wanted to show them how he could make them follow what he said and so on.

Why do you think he chose the name “The Wave”?
Because a wave is a pattern of chance, it has direction movement and impact.

What were its mottoes? How did the students react and why? (own thoughts?)
Strength through action, Strength through discipline, Strength through community is the mottoes so far. Mr Ross thinks that the students react in good ways because the are much more disciplined and everyone is equal even Robert who were bullied.

What was going on in the classroom? Positive and negative aspects? Discipline, community, action? Describe what was going on + own comments.
The class got a lot more disciplined since mr. Ross brought the Wave to the class. All the students are active in the class, Robert is an example of that, because he slept on Mr. Ross’s classes in the beginning but when Mr. Ross brought the Wave to the class he got a lot more active. The thing that is bad with the Wave is that the students who didn’t want to join the Wave got bullied and a lot of students were forced to join.

Do you see any changes in the way the characters started acting, speaking and thinking? Own comments.
All the characters changed in the way they acted. The ones who joined the wave got more strict and got mad for things they wouldn't gotten mad about before. The ones who didn’t join where most of the time scared and tried to fight it.

What did Alex mean when he said: “Maybe we should give ourselves a name” … “If they’re The Wave, we could be The Ripple.”
Alex wanted to give themselves a name because they should be a group and stick together and a name could maybe help them to stick togheter.

Why did Laurie’s father start to get concerned over The Wave?
Laurie's father started to get concerned because a kid had been beaten up and he didn’t want Laurie to be a part in a group who beat people, and if she didn’t join the Wave maybe she would get beaten.

How did the experiment end? Was it the right or the wrong way to end it? Why did Mr Ross choose Carl and Alex to help him?
I think that the Wave ended in a pretty good way, because all the students realised how stupid they had been, and that was the lesson mr. Ross wanted to learn them, how people could follow a man like Hitler. He choose Alex and Carl because they weren't involved in the Wave at all, so they would do what mr. Ross told them to do without being upset.

What emotions did the book invoke: laughter, tears, smiles, anger? Or, was the book just boring and meaningless? Record some of your reactions.
The book wasn't meaningless, and I think that it was a good book. But I didn’t start to laugh or cry when I read it. It did made me concerned and how this could happen in real life, how people can start to follow like they did in the book. But I guess it’s possible because it happened during World War 2 and it happened again when a professor tried to make a class understand how it happened with Hitler.

Compare your first impressions of the book with your impressions after reading the whole book (cf week 48-49) – how have they changed? I think that the book started as a pretty nice book about a couple of friends that had it good together, then they started to fight and everything got so serious. Take Mr. Ross as an example. He was a really nice teacher that many liked and he had a good relationship with his wife, but after a while the students just saw him as their leader and his wife got a little scared of him and just wanted it to stop. Sometimes books touch you, reminding you of your own life or of something that is going on in today’s society, as part of the larger human experience. Are there connections between the book and your own life / today’s society? Or, does the book remind you of an event (or events) that happened to someone you know?
It doesn’t remind me of that muck but maybe that Mr. Ross experimented with his students and we got experimented with grades at the 6:th grade.

Does the book leave you with questions you would like to ask? What are they? Would you like to direct your questions at a particular character? What questions would you like to ask the author of the book?
What happened with Robert? I heard from a friend of mine who has watched the movie, and he said that Robert took suicide in the movie but he didn’t do it in the booj. But he was only really depressed when Ross ended it in the book. So what do the author think would have happened. Who else should read this book? Should anyone not be encouraged to read this book? Why? Would you recommend the book to a friend or fellow classmate? I would recommend it to any of my friends because the story in the book is similar to a real life happening that also was semi tragic so the book gives you pictures of what that happening was like. And also it is a very good book that has an interesting and learning story that is cathing. Some people find the Nazi Germany very disturbing so that is why someone not should be encouraged to read the book but it also a very good thing to learn about.

Own comments.
I think it was a good book.