The wave is about a history teacher whose name is Ben Ross. His class was starting to study the time that Hitler began making all the Jewish people stay in camps. Ben Ross could not find a way to get his class interested into this time period, so he decided to try to make a group, He would play like a Hitler type scenario and his class would be the Jewish people. He would make …showed first 75 words of 632 total…

…showed last 75 words of 632 total…kids were getting hurt just because they choose not to participate in the group. He told them that he never meant for it to get this far out of hand. He also told them that he had to put a stop to it now. It was a good lesson untill it got out of hand. This book was based on a true story that happened in a High School History class in Palo Alto, California.