Why do a lot of kids feel the need to do bad things to be cool? Kids feel the need to do bad things to be cool because someone is pressuring them to do that and the just want to fit in. In the short story, "On the Bridge" by Todd Strasser, the...

In the novel The Wave by Morton Rhue (the pen name for Todd Strasser), a history teacher conducts an experiment to understand Nazi Germany's influence on its people. However, students turn against each other and terrorize those who are not part of...

Conflict is a polysomic notion that shaped by a contradictory relationship between individualism and cultural solidarity. Todd Strasser's The Wave (1981) explores both internal and external conflicts that arise within and between characters as a...