Characterization of Laurie
Saunders
Laurie is also a main character
of "The Wave". She is a student at Gordon High School. And she is the
editor-in-chief of "The Grapevine".
She is a pretty girl with short light-brown hair and she
is mostly smiling, so she is very funny. Everybody likes her. She is an person
who can influence The others are influenced by her, especially the boys, because of her beauty.
Nevertheless she really often chews pens. So she is also a person who is not
perfect and that she know. To be an editor-in-chief shows that she is reliable.
She takes her task seriously and she always becomes a bit sad when everybody
refuses the tasks, for example writing a story. Her best friend is Amy Smith.
With her she makes often funny faces. Therefore she is humorous. Laurie is also
one of those who cannot understand the Nazis doing. But she is very shocked by
the film. It really bothers her. She is in love with her boyfriend David. But
she will not marry him. This time she feels too young to marry. With Amy she
also has some problems. So it seems to be a competition between the two girls
and this bothers Laurie really hard. The doing of Mr. Ross she finds a bit
strange. So she does not want to get up with all the others. But at the end she
also stands because she is not willing to be the only one who is sitting. And
when Mr. Ross gives them the member cards she is the only one who asks for what
it should be. The powerful feeling has also come over her, but the next day she
does not feel it. It is too strange. With her mother and her father she has a
quite good relationship. Her mother always sorrows about her. So they had a
discussion about "The Wave". Laurie does not listen to her but her mother makes
her thinking about it. Like Mr. Ross, Laurie is also a helpful person,
therefore she tries to help David with his problems in mathematics. She feels a
little bit weird and helpless because she is unsure if she likes "The Wave".
Sometimes she is sarcastically. After the first days she already does not think
that "The Wave" could be dangerous. She also looks through the positive sides
of "The Wave". But while Amy taks "The Wave" too serious Laurie is bothered.
After reading the letter about the one student Laurie thinks of "The Wave" once
again. She has a strange feeling, she feels that something is going wrong. She
is an emotional person, that you can see when she is really sad because of the
division with David. She is also afraid of Wave-members. So she hides during
the rally and is afraid in the dark floor. While she was very angry about David
and "The Wave" she makes a meeting to write reports about "The Wave" and to put
them into "The Grapevine". While she thinks about, she does not want to believe
this could be something like that what the Nazis did, just at the end she
believes.
After intensive study I came to the conclusion that
Laurie is one of the persons who sees the dangerous of "The Wave". Maybe she only remarks it,
because she is not a specially person and not better than the others in "The
Wave".
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