Laurie uses the Grapevine as a platform to investigate and explore the more sinister effects of the wave, and even exposes a violent attack on a Jewish student as Wave mania sweeps the halls of Gordon High. Laurie resists being part of The Wave, even as her classmates-and David-pressure and intimidate her to join its ranks. Ross creates The Wave as an attempt to get his students to see how easily groupthink can take over a community, but as the experiment grows more and more out of control, Laurie is horrified by how The Wave transforms her classmates, and indeed her teacher as well. When her history teacher, Ben Ross, shows Laurie and her class a documentary about the Holocaust, Laurie is deeply emotionally affected by the footage of the concentration camps, and she begins to ponder deep questions about how ordinary people could commit such terrible atrocities-or merely stand by while they occurred. Laurie is popular and well-liked throughout school-but harbors anxiety about the future of her relationship with her self-centered boyfriend David and her friendship with the overly-competitive Amy. Laurie is sunny but thoughtful, and she takes her editorial duties and her studies very seriously. Laurie Saunders, the protagonist of the novel, is an intrepid and bright-eyed high schooler and editor-in-chief of her school paper, The Gordon Grapevine.
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