David tells Laurie that he sees the Holocaust as “a piece of history”-something that can’t be changed, and certainly won’t be repeated. Ben Ross is intrigued by his students’ varied reactions to the film but perturbed when he finds himself unable to answer Laurie and Amy’s questions about how ordinary Germans could have turned a blind eye to the atrocities committed by the Nazi Party-or worse, could have joined their ranks.Īt lunch the next period, Laurie and Amy remain disturbed by the images from the film, but David Collins and his best friend Brian Ammon wolf down their lunches, immune to what they’ve just seen. The class “creep,” Robert Billings, even falls asleep midway.
While some students-like the popular and bright Laurie Saunders, editor of the Gordon Grapevine, and her best friend Amy Smith-are moved by the film, other students like Laurie’s boyfriend David Collins, a self-centered running back for the football team, barely bat an eye.
On an ordinary day at Gordon High, Ben Ross shows his history class a film about the Holocaust as part of their unit on World War II.
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