... either direction you'll hit the ground. The Wave explores the idea of conformity through the use and embellishment of a true story. Let us analyse the title, The Wave, When one thinks of a wave they think of a huge mass that sweeps through, washing away what used to be. The group called The Wave is exactly that. The members follow a leader (the current). They pick up new people as they advance through force or freewill (the current pulls water with it, gathering more and more as it gets larger and larger) and it ended when the leader realised how wrong he was and stopped leading, (the waves hit the beach and disperse, they have nowhere left to go). However waves are repetitive, they do not just come once, this is where the comparison ends. Waves do not learn from their past experience; humans do. When the members of The Wave ...

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