We’re now onto chapters 9 to 12 in The Wave. The group is starting to become much more involved with making the Wave better, and stronger. Some people are starting to think its going too far and becoming too powerful. More students are coming to Mr. Ross’ history class, either ditching the class they have at that time or coming when they have a free period. There is an organized pep rally, or what the school is calling a Wave rally, the day before the football game where new people can join the Wave. Ben Ross talks to Principal Owens about the Wave, and convinces him its nothing more than a classroom experiment.

Laurie finds a story that someone has written for the school paper, the Grapevine. Robert decides he would like to be Mr. Ross’ bodyguard. Brian Ammon, a member of the Wave, gets in a fight with another boy at school. A boy who just so happens to be Jewish. Laurie’s mother wonders if this is the reason that the kids were fighting. Laurie and David get into an argument over the Wave and how they don’t agree on how great it is. They split up, for now at least. A few people who try to sneak away from the Wave rally meet up and talk about what they think about it, and how they could try and stop it from taking over everything.

I totally agree with Laurie. If this were happening in my school, I would definitely be worried that it would become too powerful and I would be quite weirded out by it. Nothing would seem normal. I don’t think having to give a salute and say a motto every time you see a person in your class is very normal. Later on in the book, I think Laurie and the people she meets up with during the Wave rally will form their own group that is against the Wave, and Laurie and everyone else will try and get their friends to realize how its not really a good thing that’s going on in the school. I think the Wave will become much too powerful that any of the members are ready to handle.