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Mrs. Saunders is Laurie’s mother, a “perceptive” worrywart who is always overly concerned and overly involved in Laurie’s friendships, problems, and school escapades. Laurie finds her mother annoying at the start of the novel—but as The Wave takes over the school, Laurie begins confiding in her mother about how scary things are becoming.
Mrs. Saunders Quotes in The Wave
The The Wave quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Saunders or refer to Mrs. Saunders. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7 Quotes
“My mother says [The Wave] sounds like brainwashing to her,” Laurie said.
“What?”
“She says Mr. Ross is manipulating us.”
“She’s crazy,” David said. “How could she know? And besides, what do you care what your mother says? You know she worries about everything.”
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Though The Wave is still in its early days, as Laurie and David debate about it on the walk to school, David is already showing hallmark signs of someone who has been brainwashed, or sucked into the undertow of unquestioning groupthink. Laurie tries to have an honest discussion with him about The Wave’s potential pitfalls and its undercurrent of danger, but David is unwilling to hear her, and even lashes out violently, accusing Laurie’s mother of being “crazy” for questioning The Wave and implying that Laurie should distance herself from her mother’s influence. This passage shows how seriously students like Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Poss
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Mrs. Saunders Character Timeline in The Wave
The timeline below shows where the character Mrs. Saunders appears in The Wave. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 7
Mrs. Saunders says she thinks the experiment sounds “too militaristic,” but Laurie retorts that it’s “positive”—even the...
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Mr. Saunders accuses his wife of making too big a deal of the experiment. Mrs. Saunders suggests that Mr. Ross is manipulating his students, but Laurie angrily says that Mr. Ross...
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Chapter 9
...is doing homework in her room when her mother comes in to talk to her. Mrs. Saunders sits on Laurie’s bed and tells her that she ran into Robert Billings’s mother at...
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Mrs. Saunders points out that she’s heard there is a Wave rally before the upcoming football game...
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