Strength through Discipline

“Strength through discipline”

-The Wave, p. 35

My reaction to this quote is that it’s more blind obedience than strength. I think that it’s more blind obedience because Ben Ross is taking advantage because he’s doing a experiment, and the students think it’s more of a game. I don’t think that strength always comes through discipline because if something happens, and you survive, it makes you stronger. But then I was thinking, strength can come through discipline because for a team, whether it be football, soccer, baseball, etc.; when they work together, they have strength as a whole. So strength can come through discipline, working together as a whole, and just going through hard times in life.

This quote reminds me of Hitler and the Nazis because they lied down a set of rules for people to follow. If people that were in Germany, and other invaded countries, they killed them if they didn’t follow the rules. I think why the Nazis were so strict because is because they thought that they were going to be unstoppable, which goes back to the quote ‘Strength through discipline’. Another theme I can connect this quote to is blind obedience. I can connect it to blind obedience because the students think that it’s a game, while Ben Ross is only starting his experiment for the students to learn from. The way that Ben Ross wanted the students to learn was answering their own questions that Ben couldn’t answer himself through the experiment. I also can tie this in to Kelly Clarkson’s song ‘Stronger’. There’s a line in that song that reads “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”, so whatever you go through, you get stronger, so you can take more things, because you already been through some hard things already.  (Stronger lyrics: http://m.metrolyrics.com/stronger-lyrics-kelly-clarkson.html )