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Ben Ross
History Teacher
Amy
A Student, Laurie's Best Friend, A Senior And Is Very Friendly And Competitive.
David Collins
Student, Plays football and is a senior, is Laurie's Boyfriend <3, And is competitive and wants to be an engineer.
Carl
Student, The Grapevine's Investigative Reporter.
Alex
Student, Music reviewer for the Grapevine.
Robert Billings
A non motivated student and doesn't seem to care about school or other sports.
Laurie Saunders
Protagonist, Main Character, Seems To Be The Most Disturbed From The Film.
Mr.Gabendi
The French Teacher.
Brian
Student, and is the quarterback for the football team.
Themes
Major Themes- The appeal of facism, why would a community want to be part of a dictatorship, the design for power and success, And Educational Authority.
Settings
A Fictional High School, Gordon High School Palo Alto California 1960's

Laurie Saunders House

Mr. Ross's House
Exposition
Mr.Ross's class is watching the film on the Holocaust.
Problem or Conflict in the story.
Why the students were asking questions and why no one was fighting against the nanzi army