The Wave Character Analysis

Is the protagonist in the wave sympathetic or empathetic? Dynamic or static?

In the novella “The Wave” by Todd Strasser, the protagonist's is Laurie Saunders, she is a sympathetic character that shows many features of being static. Laurie is a High school girl that everyone praises at the beginning of school. This all changes when the social studies teacher Mr. Ross shows the class a video about the Holocaust and Nazi Germany. Mr. Ross, decided to set up a class experiment. This experiment was called The Wave. Basicly The Wave was a game in which the kids in the class had to folow rules like the Nazies. For example, they had to sit up straighter, have better posture. As the days passed Mr. Ross told his students more and more things that …show more content…
This becomes evident when Laurie says “I think you and everyone else are taking this whole Wave thing a bit too seriously” (Strasser). In the story Laurie never officially committed to the wave and that quote shows her getting a little scared about the future of the wave. Laurie doesn't believe the wave is necessarily good, she thinks that the wave may be getting out of hand. In addition, it also foreshadows the next chapters in the book and the darkness of the wave to come. In a final analysis Laurie portrays herself as a static …show more content…
She does this when she remains the same even when the hype of the wave was getting out spreading to everyone in the school. She also remains static by going against a cult even when her best friend was apart of. Lastly, she is a sympathetic character because she manages to convince her social studies teacher Mr. Ross to abolish the wave. In conclusion, when the wave got out of hand Laurie Saunders remained the same and sympathetically managed to help her teacher make a hard