David Collins

David Collins appears in the novel The Wave by Morton Ruhe. He has been Laurie Saunders` boyfriend since the beginning of high school. He loves his girlfriend very much, accompanies her to school most mornings (Chapter 8, 0%). He gets along very well with her family and visits them in the evenings. David wants to be an engineer and tries to work toward this goal while still in high school. He is also very enthusiastic about sports and plays football on the school team. He particularly enjoys talking to Laurie's father about sports and engineering (Chapter 7, 57%; Chapter 8, 70%).

David is immediately thrilled when he senses how The Wave movement triggers a sense of community in the class. He enthusiastically wants to apply this to the school`s rather unsuccessful football team. He hopes that it will create a team that will stand up for one another without the members seeing each other as competitor...