Wave Obsession

“Why not”? Laurie asked. “They’re true. Amy,The Wave has become an obsession with everyone. No one is thinking for themselves anymore.” Laurie, p. 105, The Wave

I think that it was an obsession because everyone thought it was real and they were controlled by Mr. Ross so they were not thinking. Robert was probably the most obsessed because he actually thought he was apart of something and thought it was real. SPOILER ALERT: At the end of the book, Robert found out that it was fake and he was so obsessed that he was crying and so sad that he thought he was a part of something but it was actually fake. Most of The Wave members thought that it was so real that they became obsessed like when some of the members beat up the Jewish kid. Those members were not thinking for themselves so they were being Anti-Semitic. Even David found out The Wave was fake when Laurie told him but on pg. 119 he pushed Laurie down because he was not thinking even though he knew it was fake.

I think this theme is blind obedience because Mr. Ross has made them become obsessed and they can’t think anymore. Just like when this happened in the Stanford Experiment when they used blind obedience to control the prisoners,or even when Hitler made the Jews believe that they were going to a new place and it was going to be fun and cool he made them become obsessed about how good the Holocaust was.(http://www.prisonexp.org/) this is the link that talks about the stanford prison.Many people are like that because when they see a commercial so many times they get obsessed and want to buy that product.Hitler used blind obedience and propaganda to take out Jews. Jews probably wouldn’t do anything because they didn’t know that they were being taken over until later in the Holocaust.