'The Wave' eksperimentet: Annas refleksion

I have a lot to tell you. I’ve just had a very strange, but interesting experience happen at my school.

It all started in our history class when we were studying the German Nazis. We saw a film that showed how the Jews, gypsies and the homosexuals were gassed in the concentration camps. There were many students that wondered how the whole German nation could let it happen and claim they didn’t know anything about it. Mr. Ross, our teacher, couldn’t give us an answer.

In the next class he wanted to teach the class discipline. He told us how we needed to be disciplined to achieve power and success. We continued the next day and everybody was suddenly a part of the group. Even I couldn’t help but to get caught up in it. But when Mr. Ross continued his experiment I noticed how my friends began to change their ways of thinking and behaving.

Mr. Ross made the class feel like they all were part of something greater and bigger than themselves. More and more people got involved with it and it suddenly seemed to be the only thing my friends could talk about. It had become an obsession to them and I was beginning to think I was the only one who didn’t feel any more special than I did before. Because of that I didn’t feel like I was a part of the group anymore. That was the reason I never dared to tell anyone about what I was thinking. I went along with the others and let them speak for me.