The story begins with a priest hidden in a bunch of caverns used by refugees near Urbana, waiting for the end of winter with the other survivors. The priest turns out to be a Silencer (genetically modified Others) and he silences the human survivors that very night. He then talks to his false shrine in glee, waiting for the day when mothership will drop green bombs that will obliterate every city on earth, which will begin the 5th wave, completing the destruction of Earth. The story leaves the cackling psychopath for a while and turns to Ringer, who has just been enhanced by Vosch. She escapes, but not without unknowing carrying a child, result of the 12th system and a friend she made while imprisoned. However, 40 days after the escape, she goes back to Vosch's watchtower after she realizes that they both have a common goal: to silence Evan Walker. The book moves back to Cassie, who is talking to Evan, broken up over the fact that her brother Sammy has forgotten his ABC's and his own mother's face. This is especially bad because these traits are all that's left of humanity. Evan responds by telling her that he has also forgotten what it means to be compassionate, ending the discussion when he tells her that he has also forgotten his ABC's.Cassie is walking back to the house when she runs into Ben. He explains that he's going after …show more content…
When it comes, Ringer attacks. She and Cassie They also take out all of their tracking beacons from their necks and place them in their mouths. They begin to prepare at the Urbana Caves by making homemade bombs. When the chopper arrives, Ringer attacks the soldiers. She and Cassie board the helicopter but leave a wounded Zombie behind to watch over Nugget and Megan back in the caves. Ringer and Cassie capture the helicopter pilot- coincidentally the same pilot Ringer captured while fleeing the base in the previous
after removing the chip from the back of her phone, she hunts down and tracks her alt. After following her alt into an alley, she sees that her alt hired a striker to kill her. She gets shot in the left shoulder and only narrowly escapes thanks to chord scaring them off. After Chord patches up her shoulder, she runs away from him again, but this time, she goes to another striker job. After killing the target, she finds an empty room and sleeps there for a while until her alt’s striker found her and tried to get the jump on her. After getting outsmarted by West, she kills him and runs away to her alt’s house. When she gets there, she finds out that the striker that she killed was her alt’s boyfriend and that the next day, her alt was going to attack Chord. She immediately runs to chord’s house and tells him about her alt’s plans, only to find that he knew all along. The next morning she gives him sleeping pills and sets up a trap for her alt to fall into. When she arrives at Chord’s house, she shoots and misses by a fraction of an inch. She runs over to Chord’s house, after leaving him
Figurative language is used to emphasize Cassie and her emotions in her experiences and interactions and how she learns from that. Epiphany is used to convey how both Cassie and Stacey learned from their mistakes and simultaneously grew from said mistakes. Many other characters in this book go through an experience they could learn from, but don’t learn from it (e.g. T.J.). But, Stacey and Cassie, thanks to their parents they learn from their mistakes and experiences and get a life lesson along with it. Taylor's book displays a variety of themes but the most prominent theme is that making mistakes is part of life, and is okay, but it is important that you learn from those mistakes and grow from
After the prologue, the book begins with the story that happened twenty years earlier that led to the smash-up(5). It is wintertime in Starkfield, and Ethan Frome is walking Mattie Silver home from an event at the church. Mattie is a cousin of Ethan’s wife, Zeena. Mattie’s parents have died, and she is living
shown to like Jeremy to a certain extent for who he is and not just
Little does Cassie know, there is one person who is willing to risk his life to help her save her brother, Evan Walker.
An additional theme heavily shown throughout the book is “people are defined by the choices they make”. Ben left his little sister, Sissy, to die, even though he could have made an effort to save her; because he left her, he now vows not to run from danger or those things which scare him. Furthermore, Cassie promises Sammy that she will find him and, because she makes that promise, she will stop at nothing to be with him again.
Before Cassie Bernall became a Christian, she was an outsider at school. Cassie had written letters to a friend about how she could kill her parents, Brad and Misty Bernall, and end all of her problems. Cassie's parents found the letters, made copies of them, and gave them to the police department. When Cassie got home from school, her parents confronted her. After the confrontation, the Bernall's broke all of Cassie's ties with her friends. The Bernall's enrolled Cassie in a Christian school. Cassie was not allowed to answer the phone and no longer had any privileges. She was allowed to go to a youth group, but that was all she could do. Her parents even went as far to put a monitor on their phone so they could know what she was doing when they weren't home. Cassie had lost all of the trust that she earned from her parents. Misty Bernall didn't go back to work so that she could watch over Cassie. Cassie had her backpack searched, her phone calls monitored, and her bedroom searched. Furtively investigating their daughter, they say,
Near the end of the book Cassie bumps into Jeremy Simms sister and her dad comes and pushes Cassie off the sidewalk.“It was then that I bumped into Lillian Jean Simms… Mr. Simms glared down at me “When my gal Lillian Jean says for you to get yo’self off the sidewalk, you get, your hear.” This shows her losing innocence because she now sees how terrible white people are to push a 9 year old girl off the sidewalk because someone bumped into her. Lillian and her dad are very racist so now she knows not to mess with her and not to talk back.
By the end of March, Spring has arrived and school closes for the black students, including Cassie and her brothers. Jeremy admits that he’s going to miss the Logans because he has school until mid-May, and he would like to meet them sometime. Jeremy spreads the rumor about T.J spending more time with Melvin and R.W, but he also reveals that the Simms brothers are just using him and when T.J isn’t around, they speak behind his back. Then Cassie asks Mama the reason behind R.W and Melvin hanging out with T.J, Mama explains to Cassie that it makes them feel good to have someone to be able to laugh at and to use.
To continue, he gave away a piece of himself that many would say: he wouldn’t get back, because tomorrow is never a certainty, and that’s especially true for them now. But a 5-year-old, a little 5-year-old, gave away a piece of himself, for someone that was the bigger piece of himself. Most kids, would never surrender their childhood, because they want to hold on, but as long as Sammy had the promise by Cassie herself; he had hope, and because of that: he wouldn’t let himself believe the world was going to fall, at least not yet, ”How old is Cassie? ' Cassie’s sixteen. They’re going back to get her,' '
There are many events that can occur to people that will change their lives tremendously. Racism plays a big part in Cassie Logan’s life and it changes her character throughout the novel as she grows in her understanding of inequality. As the narrator and protagonist of the novel, Cassie’s perspective is captivated very closely with the help of the other character’s conversations. At such a young age she is very naïve about certain situations but learns how things really are throughout the novel. As she is growing up she experiences many situations of racism in the American South, but there is one event that she would never forget. The day that Cassie Logan is made to apologize to Lillian Jean Simms for bumping into her is the event that had the greatest impact on her character.
“Other faces peered in from the sides of her eyes−her father and mother, and Charles, and Adam, and Samuel Hamilton, and then Aron, and she could see Cal smiling at her. He didn’t have to speak. The glint of his eyes said, ‘You missed something. They had something and you missed it.’” (554) Upon Aron’s visit to the brothel, Cathy is horrified after seeing his disgust of what she has become. Everything hurt more than it ever had, and she, in turn, plots to end her miserable life. Before she kills herself, Cathy decides to write her will stating that Aron will inherit everything she owns, and tells the sheriff to check Joe Valery’s fingerprints. Although Joe is an extremely minor character, Cal’s decision to show Aron their mother ultimately leads to his death as well. Cathy then commits suicide using the small bottle of poison that always hung from her neck. Lee works up the courage to open the envelope, and discovers that Aron was killed in the army. He is completely distraught and is sure that it is not his right to tell Adam his son is dead. (593) The first major event that occurs as a direct result of Cal taking Aron to see their mother is Aron enrolling in the Army. After being so disgusted that his mother is a prostitute Aron simply no longer has the will to live. This ultimately leads to
When Allie reads this in the newspaper, all her feelings for Noah returned. Confused, Allie decided to go back home. Allie wanted and needed to see this house. While in the town, Noah sees Allie from a store window. Noah is in shock, wants her back. Allie shows up to the house he renovated and can’t believe her eyes. After all these years and separation, Noah made the house exactly has he had promised her. It is evident she feels the same way, but she now has a fiancé. Allie decides to spend the days with Noah and this time became as it was when they were teenagers. Noah wants forever, Allie is confused because she is to be married soon. Noah asks her to stay with him but she can’t. Noah tells Allie that he stills loves her, he never stopped. Noah asks "What do you want?" Allie repeatedly cries, “I don’t know”, but he does not take this as an answer. Noah does not want to lose her for a second time. Allie screams she has to go and tells him this is not right, she is about to be married. Allie leaves Noah and heads back to the hotel. Now Allie is confused and has to decide which love she wants. Noah stops reading the notebook and Allies memories fade after a few minutes again. Allie doesn’t know who the man that is sitting next to her and starts screaming for help. A nurse runs in the room to help her and asks Noah to please leave and to stop reading to her, this will not help.
Trying to tell Rose how she feels and find out her own feelings, she takes a trip to London with Stephen. Stephen was given a photography job for a family friends of the Cottons and together they make the trip to London. While in London Cassandra realizes that her love for Simon is stronger than she thought and Rose truly does not love Simon. Rose is outraged and Cassandra is also upset that her sister had lied about her feelings. Cassandra storms out of Rose’s room in London in the middle of the night and her and Stephen leave London first thing in the
The further ‘off the rails’ Cassie goes, the more extreme the sexual situations, at one point ‘courting’ a female and then a few minutes after the female leaves a male arrives. “Sexuality strongly influences people’s identity.” (Op. cit. p.22) And at this point in the series we find that Cassie has a very mixed up idea about who she is and what she wants.