Tic-Tac-Toe with the Wave

Theme: Quotes that represents the Book and Me.

The Book: The quotes I chose to for the book have things to do with individuality, equality, the lures of power, and speaking your own mind. I feel that those are the themes that are strongly represented in the book and these quotes go with it well.

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.-Aldous Huxley

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
-George Orwell
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
-Voltaire

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

-Abraham Lincoln

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

-Charles Caleb Colton

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

-Carl Schurz

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

-Patricia Sampson

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Represent Me: These quotes reflect my lifestyle. I like to lounge around, and laugh also. I also like to tease and I really am not a sporty person, more of a bookworm, but I think it's funny because I fence too.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

-W. Somerset Maugham

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

-Bertrand Russell

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

-Agnes Repplier

The fascination of as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

-P. G. Wodehouse

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

-Simone de Beauvoir

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.

-Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Setting: The Time and place in which people find themselves and when events happen shape those people and events in important ways.

If Laurie hadn't stayed behind to clean up at the Grapevine she wouldn't have walked by where David was waiting for her when she did. If Laurie had gotten over he fear of the dark, she might have not walked by the tennis courts to feel more safe. Then David wouldn't have known where to wait for her, then they would have never had the confrontation and David would have had the same opinion that he'd always had about the Wave. Instead of being shocked into the truth.

That would set off a chain reaction of events in the book. David wouldn't have taken her to Mr. Ross's house, Mr. Ross wouldn't have had the same idea he'd had (since they gave him Carl Block and Alex Cooper) and the ending of the Wave might not have happened the way it did. Plus, Laurie needed the friend outside of the Wave.

Character: 20 years in the future

Robert Billings is the Boss
By Laurie Saunders

Robert is the coach of the baseball game. After his first season and winning the playoffs, he has made the Giants the team to beat. His star player and brother Jeff Billings is having a hard time, he has a broken ankle and might have to sit this season out. Robert was also voted the most eligible bachelor of 1989 . Twenty years after his high school graduation, he's looking forward to the reunion. I'm sure some of them are begging to meet him too, after all while he accepted the trophy he thanked his high school teacher a Mr Ben Ross, saying "He changed my life and made me able to have the future I have today." It's also been reported that Robert and his suspected friend Amy Smith, are going to tie the knot in the near future.

FLASH NEWS:

Weintronic just released the next gaming fad. Heavy gamers have been waiting for this for a while. Brianne N. top game designer has just announced that the game will feature: flaming bunnies of doom, and slimy creepy crawlers. While teaching oceanology at the university on the weekends, she has discovered a headcount of 3 new deep sea species. There is some speculation that she swims with great white sharks. Not surprising for the Olympic Women Champion of 2022, in fencing. She was last seen at best friend Carly Anderson's wedding (to esteemed computer programmer Andrew Brooks). Her next book is due out Fall next year. We also have gotten news of a little tea date between Brianne and friends, Carly, Kamil (2015 winner of So You Think You Can Dance), Aubrey (new Broadway star), and Laura Mendoza (film director).