Mrs. H gave us this quote and a few questions to answer.

“The past is never dead, it’s not even past.”

What does this quote mean to you?
I think it’s saying that what happened in the past can always happen again, either if it’s good or bad. The past is not dead, therefore it can re-occur again. I think we should try not to let bad things from the past happen again, but learn from our mistakes, though, we should repeat good things that gave us success, therefore will give us more success and the world will be a better place.

How does this connect to The Wave?
If you look at how the Seniors are gaining power and control and pretty much dictating the school like Hitler and The Nazis did it in Germany, which is the past, and now the past is re-occuring in a modern-day school. The past is still alive in this school and it’s affecting everyone in either good ways or bad ways. Therefore, the past is never dead.

American History connection…
I would say that The Wave connects to how the Puritans gained power in the “New World”. They settled there to get their freedom of religion and the freedom to believe in what they wanted, but it ended up in fights, and they banished people from their settlements who were not a Puritan. If you look at The Wave, then first it starts out peacefully, and is just a small class thing, and in America it was a small settlement, that then grew and became more powerful, and therefore, if you were not a part of the group, not being a member of The Wave or not being a Puritan, you would be banished or abused. Do you agree?