The End of The Wave.

Laurie went to the football game and she was looking for her friend Amy. She spotted her in the stands, but was not aloud up unless to did the wave. She told Brad it was dumb and refused. Brian said she should as everyone was watching and she asked him if she was afraid. The football team lost the game anyways 42 to 6 to Clarks town.

Laurie just had to find Amy before the paper came out, to tell her the story about the note. Amy asked her not to publish it and told her she was against The Wave because she was no longer the princess. Laurie had already published it.

Well Lauries paper came out and everyone wants a copy. The students are upset because they believe she is causing problems for The Wave. Parents and teachers are complaining to the principal and poor Mr.Ross has gotten a bad headache. Did he really start this? Some students like David, Amy, Brian and Robert can not believe she doesn’t agree with The Wave, and Robert thinks something should be done about it, but Brian said they will look after it.

Christy rushed home to talk to Ben about what is happening at the school, and how he must quit this as she is losing students to his class. The school teachers are upset with him and The Wave and the counselors and starting to question the students. But he tells her he can’t stop now he likes the power and even having a body guard. The GrapeVine staff stayed late after the paper had gone out so to celebrate. But as usual Carl and the others left early and Laurie was left to clean up and stayed later. As she went to her locker she heard foot steps and started to panic but she managed to find the door that wasnt locked, and made a run for it. But wouldn’t you believe it David and Brian are waiting for Laurie on the street and watch her walk by.

David goes after her and tries to talk to her about writing about The Wave but she rused to listen to him, she also tells him that all that The Wave has done is cause trouble. David is really getting mad at her and pushes her to the ground, poor Lauire is shaken and starts to cry, David can’t believe what he has done. Eventually they go to see Mr.Ross at home and both tell him that the wave has to stop. Mr.Ross has a plan for the other students but will not tell Laurie and David what it is. David quoted,”It’s taken over Mr.Ross you can’t say anything against it, it’s taken over. Mr.Ross thought had the Jews taken the Nazi’s threat seriously things might have been differnet.

The following morning Mr.Ross had to see the pricipal, and he was sweating. He had to correct this or resign teachers and parents were getting fed up. Mr.Ross told Mr.Owens his plan, and he gave Mr.Ross a chance to fix what he started. In Mr.Ross’s class the next morning David and Laurie thought Mr.Ross hadn’t changed. Quote,”Look what we accoplished in this school in a few days, if we can change things here we can change things everywhere”. Laurie and David didn’t trust him and got kicked out of class, and sent to the pricipal office. They asked Mr.Owens to stop The Wave, but he insisted that all would be alright.

Laurie and David put their books in the locker, and left the school depressed David she said,”Do you remeber the way this all started?” David said,”Do you mean the first motto?” She said,”No David the day we saw the movie about the Nazi’s camp. The day I was upset, no one could understand how all the other Germans could have ignored what the Nazi’s were doing, and pretended that they didn’t know. You told me it could never happen again, Laurie wants to go back to the school David wasnt sure.

All The Wave members were called to the auditorum, as their leader Mr.Ross wanted to talk to them. They were to watch a movie, all was quiet. Mr.Ross hoped the students would be like this all the time. Robert Billings was dressed in a suit and all the doors were locked. The Wave members were getting restless, as the screen was blank and they waited and waited. Mr.Ross gave a signal and Hitlers face appered the students were shocked. Then they realized that they couldn’t function with out a leader. They had lost their independence, they finally all realized what had happend and why the Germans didn’t do anything to stop Hitler. They had done the same thing it was quite an experiment but they learned a lesson,”To stand up for their independence and freedom”. Poor Robert cried as they were no longer equal. Mr.Ross was quite happy it ended the way it did.

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