Final Thoughts about the Novel

The end of the book surprised me because everyone took it so well after being so into it. Everyone took it so seriously, but people didn’t seem to mind that Ben was ending it. It’s like they were already thinking about ending the Wave, like they already dealt with the emotions. One major theme that stood out to me was ‘Upstanding’ because there were multiple times where there were moments of upstanding. Some moments of upstanding were when the anonymous student wrote the letter to the Grapevine staff. The student was speaking out by writing the letter to tell what happened to him, and not keep quiet, just to be a bystander. Laurie throughout the novel spoke out against the Wave. Laurie wrote articles, saying the Wave is bad, she went to Ben with David to tell him about it. Last. Ben’s wife, Christy, kept telling him to stop the Wave on many occasions.

My final thoughts on this  project are that power can go to anyone's head, even though that they have a plan. A project like this is important for teenagers to become a part of because they can learn a lot from reading a nonfiction book, and doing blog posts so they can analyze what they’re reading so they have a deeper understanding of that/those topic(s).  Also another thing that teenagers can pull from a project like this is that some things that they read, is things that they never thought about, or knew before, so there knowledge will grow from what they already knew.  Also, I would like to thank all the people who contributed to the blog, I think that you gave thoughtful feedback with your comments about what you agreed and disagreed with, what you thought about what we were writing, and everything in general.