The Wave - An Important Scene

One important incident that took place in the novel The Wave by Morton Rhue was the final scene when Ben Ross tells the students who their national leader is.

During this scene the Wave movement is ended. Ben Ross arriving late goes up onto the stage when he arrives and sees people holding Wave banners and people chanting the Wave mottoes. Ben Ross leaves the students in suspense for a while. He eventually shows them that their leader would have been Adolf Hitler. All the students leave quickly realising how silly they have been.

One reason why I thought this scene was important was because it proves history can repeat itself. At the start of the novel when Ben Ross first shows his students a film about Nazi Germany they are all shocked. After the film while the students are having their lunch, still shocked about what they have just seen David Collins says, “It happened once and ...