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Todd Strasser's Novel 'The Wave'

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Wenn du eine groß genug Lüge erzählst und es oft genug erzählt, wird man glauben - If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed - Adolf Hitler. After being taught about the Nazis one would believe that a group of students would not be able to mindlessly fall into the description of a fascist society. Todd Strasser’s novel The Wave suggests that anyone can be guided so dauntlessly by someone who they believe has more power than them. The Wave became fascist when - american high school history teacher - Mr Ross Assigned different responsibilities to students such as ‘agents’ trying to call out students disobeying the rules of the wave. In The Wave this very thing happened, a group of students mindlessly joined

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