In The Children’s Story it reminds me a lot of the book I read called The Wave by Todd Strasser. In The Wave, the teacher has the class conduct themselves much like a dictatorship. For example, the students must raise their hands and when called on they must stand by their desk to answer the teacher. The students also wore armbands, uniforms, and conducted differently within the setting of that classroom as opposed to the other classes that they had. In comparison both stories are similar because each teacher is able to have a group of students change their views and behaviors based on what is being said by the teacher. Both teachers want the students to have a new way of thinking, even if the new way isn’t a “good way.” However, what makes the two stories different, and what I think is important, is that in The Wave it is a group of High School students that have changed their views and behaviors and in The Children’s Story the students are much younger. This is important because I believe that it would be much harder to sway the views of high school students, not elementary school students. Another difference between the two stories is in The Wave this change of views was a project put upon by the teacher by himself, he wanted to see if he was able to change the environment of his classroom and see how easily changed students can be while The Children’s Story it was a complete change with the Teacher and ultimately seemed like the teacher was “Government assigned.”