Overview: The Fifth Wave By Rick Yancey

The novel switches point of views to her coincidentally high school crush, Ben, who is taken in by the military and trained to fight back against the Others, which is what they call the aliens. Meanwhile, Cassie is shot in the leg by one of the alien assassins

Little does Cassie know, there is one person who is willing to risk his life to help her save her brother, Evan Walker.

An important idea in The Wave is ‘words can be used for harm or for good’. This idea means that words can be used to hurt people mentally and create bad things, but, at the same time can cheer a person up and change their life in a good way. The confusing thing is, is that good words can also be bad. For example, if someone said that they won their basketball game and you said ‘good’, then that would be a good thing to say. It’s also quite the same with harmful words. In The Wave, this conundrum is used in a smart way. For example, Ben Ross is taking his first class with The Wave as a base when he introduces the line,

The Wave is a story about a high school senior class that has been intrigued to join their teacher’s cult known as the Wave. Several people tried to prevent the denial of his movement. Laurie Saunders the main character in the wave, is a rebellious girl who is very ashamed of this movement and is not inspired by her history teacher. He shows them a very emotional video of what Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party did. Some of the students take it more personal than others do. Because of Laurie’s bravery, independence, and determination, Laurie denies the Wave.

Doubts of the the wave erupted for Laurie because of the insight her mother gave her about the wave. Lauries mother explained how no one will be able to express themselves or be independent while participating in the experiment. She got lost in the unity part of the wave and didn't see what was really happening until it was pointed out by her

The average person would not pick up a scientific book and have a yearning urge to read it. It is the author’s job to captivate their audience’s attention as quickly as possible. In the book The Wave by Susan Casey, she does an amazing job at captivating her audience’s attention. From the very first sentence Casey tells us an epic story about waves. She throws you right into the middle of a storm right in front of a huge wave measuring 100 feet tall. It is clear that survival is not guaranteed but in the end the crew of Discovery makes it out alive, able to talk about their encounter with a monster of the ocean.

Did you know that Waves was only rated three stars, out of five? This is no hoax, since over a thousand people voted. Some readers may argue that Waves is very descriptive, and contains several little details, but other readers say that these details slow down the pace of the book, and the story uses long outdated terms and references, doesn’t contain many plot twists, and has a boring ending that makes the reader want to stop reading.

The Wave, Todd Strasser; This novel that is based on a true story takes place primarily in the fictional Gordon High School, which is set in a small suburban community. Some scenes also take place in the homes of Ben Ross and Laurie Sanders. As the novel's foreword explains, the real life event took place in a high school in Palo Alto, California. Some questions that I’m going to discuss some different topics such as: How does Mr. Ross manipulate his students into accepting the Wave? Why are they so enthusiastic about it? / What is the difference between adults and teenagers in the Novel? Are teenagers more vulnerable to the wave because they are young? / Compare and contrast Laurie’s and David’s reactions to the Wave / Was the wave successful? If so why doesn’t Mr. Ross want to repeat it next year? These questions will be explored further in the next few paragraphs.

CRASH the waves barrage the beach. SMASH sandcastles destroyed, still water stirred up and thrown against the beach. The water slowly recapturing the land. Children and adults retreat. The water water slithers across the beach like a snake. The lifeguards like shepherds herding everyone off the beach. The rocks rally against the tide and the waves smash into them and are immediately deflected. People watch the specular display from above some with others have their phones out taking picture after picture of the chaos unfolding below. A few hours later the order is given to retreat the water slithers back the way it came and people burst out onto the beach once more. The water has already planned another attack in a few hours time.

The Wave was an experiment done in a classroom in Palo Alto, California in 1967. During a history class, students were watching a video on the Holocaust. When the video ended, many students didn't understand why the other Germans didn't do anything to stop the Nazis from persecuting all the Jews and other people. In order to answer their questions, their teacher decided to attempt an experiment on them, which included him creating specific rules and a salute. All this created a program called The Wave. Their teacher was making decisions for everyone in the classroom. In the beginning, everyone was excited because they thought they were playing a type of game. After a while, the program was spreading throughout the school and everyone participating

The Sound of Waves is a love story about Shinji and Hatsue and how they conquer the cruel gossip of the village they live in. The lack of control Shinji and Hatsue have of slanderous rumors created by the villagers is the groundwork for the situational

Paz describes the wave’s insatiable appetite for attention and understanding in an almost unimaginable way. He gives the wave a personality all her own as if to point out that no emotions like hers exist in the human realm. Water is in constant motion and becomes riled when attacked by wind and lightening. It reacts and becomes tempestuous and the reader can see where the wave might resemble a human woman. But she is reactionary at best and tries their relationship.

It is widely known that the rogue wave (freak wave, killer wave, and Peregrine solitons) is a kind of wave with a singular, rare, and high amplitude, which causes a dramatic impact on living life. Generally speaking, the rogue waves usually have deep holes and high crest, and the deep holes occur before and after the large crest. It has been pointed out that the freak waves have been a part of marine folklore for centuries by Lawton. (-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) 1 (-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) Nowadays, there are various consensus on the existence of rogue waves in the ocean. (-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) 2–4 (-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) Rogue waves are extraordinarily high and steep isolated waves, which appear suddenly in a calm sea and disappear in a rush. (-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) 5 (-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) Rogue waves always occur suddenly, unlike the tsunami caused by typhoons and earthquakes which can be predicted a couple hours or days early, and bring about heavy tragedies. Since the 1970s, rogue waves have been observed and studied. Recently, a considerable amount of attention has been paid to rogue waves, and many research studies have been carried out for its' explanation by theoretical models and experimental observations. (-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) 6–9 (-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) At present, it has not been possible to fully understand the

Tsunamis have become popular only in the recent times, but they existed and have caused damages since ages. Tsunami is one of the most dangerous disasters caused from the ocean and can have far reaching consequences like washing out the entire city, taking years to recover and re- build human civilization. A Tsunami is not just a single wave but a series of ocean waves called a wave train caused by an underwater earthquake, by a volcanic eruption, landslide, rapid changes in atmospheric pressure, or a meteorite. I have never thought I would ever have such a bad experience in my life. Experiencing such a calamity was one of the worst things happened in my life. But this was a lesson for me. Before this I always thought I was an unlucky person in life.

Deep under the Indian Ocean, at the epicentre of the quake, the 20m (65ft) upward thrust of the seafloor set in motion a series of geological events that were to devastate the lives of millions. Billions of tonnes of seawater, forced upward by the movement of the seabed now flowed away from the fault in a series of giant waves. The only people in the world to have any idea what had happened were thousands of kilometres away on the island of Hawaii.