The Letter.

‘Dear Editors of The Grapevine,

This is a story I have written for  The Grapevine. Don’t bother looking for my name because you won’t find it. I don’t want my friends or other kids to know I wrote this.

Welcome to the Wave - or Else

I’m a junior here at Gordon High. Three or four days ago me and my friends heard about this thing called The Wave that all the seniors were getting into. We got interested. You know how juniors always want to be like the seniors.

This senior started telling us how great The Wave was. He said that the more kids who joined, the better it would get. He said almost all the seniors at school had joined and most of the juniors too.

Pretty soon my two friends who said first they didn't know changed their minds and said they wanted to join. Then the senior turned to me. “ Aren't you going to stick with your friends?” he asked.

I told him they were still my friends even if I didn't join. He kept asking me why I didn't want to join. I told him I didn't feel like it.

Then he got mad. He said pretty soon people in The Wave wouldn't want to be friends with people who weren't in it. He even said I’d lose all my friends if I didn't join. I think he was trying to scare me.

But it backfired on him. One of my friends said he didn't see why anyone had to join who didn't want to. My other friends agreed and we left.’

It takes lots of guts to turn down someone older or somebody that is in higher authority than you. Also if your friends are joining and you aren't. It will make me feel like I’m a loner or like an outcast that I’m not with everybody else. So it take a lot of courage to say “no”. Especially if it’s to somebody you look up to like in this kids case a senior.

This quote reminds me of resistance and up-stander because the anonymous writer resisted the seniors offer on join the Wave. Then his friends were up-standers and left when he threatened the kid and they all left.  This reminds my of the resistance that occurred in Poland, Warsaw ghettos.  They attacked the Nazis from building tops and jumped from building to building. The Nazis had to level the whole city to get the resistance people out. After that they killed everyone who resisted.