The Wave: A Brief Narrative Analysis

This creative piece is set 2 years after The Wave had finished. Laurie and David are being interviewed for a segment on the news. This segment will be shown all around America with millions watching.

“Teaching styles have changed drastically over the years. How kids learn today is totally different on how you or I were taught. At Gordon High School in California teacher Ben Ross taught his students how Adolf Hitler gained power. He did this by putting them in the position that the Germans would have been in. What started as a simple lesson turned the school into a cult called The Wave. Here with us today we have two of the students that were once a part of The Wave but soon left it when they saw all the down falls that it had to offer. Laurie …show more content…
The incident made David that insecure where Laurie was concerned that when he proposed to her he started with “I know your answer will be no but I just need to ask this”. Laurie hated seeing him like this. “My aim at first was to try and get her to reconsider.” He continued “Try to get her to join again. I was so caught up in trying to get her to join that I didn’t realise what I was doing. I got so worked up because I just wanted her back and I thought that we couldn’t be together if she wasn’t a part of The Wave. I get so worked up that I grabbed her and started shaking her until I pushed her onto the ground. The moment I pushed her…” He took a deep breath trying to hold back tears that have been waiting to come out for long time. “Time froze.” Another deep breath. “I can’t explain it. The feeling was awful. It was the worst feeling in the world. It’s a feeling that you try to forget but no matter how hard you try you can’t.” His words started to get caught up in his throat. “This feeling won’t leave and I don’t think it ever will”. For Laurie, everything went