Suspense And Wonders In The Fifth Wave By Cassie Sullivan

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

The author of the The 5th Wave Rick Yancey had several prominent themes in the book. Three were very important and stood out. First, war cannot change who a person really is at their core, second, people are defined by the choices they make, third, family is worth living for. These are the best and most important recurring themes of The 5th Wave.

Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala is a life taking memoir where Sonali watched her whole family be swept away before her eyes being the only one to tell her tale. Throughout the book Sonali deals with depression and anxiety after finding out what was the cause of her family's death, A tsunami. She later explains her feelings and difficulties without her family being by her side. Relying on friends she slowly gets better by facing the one place she wanted to forget ,Sri Lanka. This was just the beginning for Sonali.

Believing that there are things worth risking your life for is a quality that is well respected.

shown to like Jeremy to a certain extent for who he is and not just

In a world where a mysterious alien race has besieged Earth- survival is the ultimate goal. 95% of the world’s population was not able to achieve this goal; Cassie Sullivan is one of the “lucky” ones. The “others,”as the humans call them, set up five waves to eradicate the human race. Surviving the first wave wasn’t too difficult, it was, after all, just an EMP strike. The second wave really shook the world, literally. The aliens set the Earth’s tectonic plates in motion, causing thousands of off-the-chart earthquakes. The tsunamis that spurred from these quakes were detrimental; killing about 50 percent of the world’s overall population. The third wave proved to be the most emotionally devastating. A gruesome plague- created by the aliens

Finally, Cassie had little-to-no human contact before she was shot in the leg and saved by Evan Walker but she still did not hesitate to kiss him, cuddle, fight, or anything that a normal couple would do. After fighting with each other, “Evan Walker kisses me. Holding my hand against his chest, his other hand sliding across my neck…” Despite Cassie being shot in the leg by an unknown shooter, aliens trying to take over the Earth, her brother being taken, and her family being dead, she is still a teenage girl who enjoys male interaction.

The author described, in many ways, the details of the many different things in the areas Cassie visits and uncovered clues that you wouldn’t find just by reading and imagining. The crime scenes also showed every detail, down to the tiniest and unexpected ones, such as where exactly blood was located or where exactly the victims died and even why they were killed. On the front cover of the book is a black box, a gift. Now imagine what you may find within the perfectly shaped cube, perfect bowtie, perfect letter with words half-way between cursive and print. What you may find inside is a small tissue, with a lock of red hair, similar to Cassie’s mother’s hair.

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.

One main reason I chose to annotate this page is that it gives us a lot of important aspects of Cassie’s character. Not only the dialogue shows this, but Cassie’s own thoughts as well. As she is speaking with Brogden, Cassie states that she “did my best to answer Brogden’s questions without popping him with my free hand”. This shows that even though Cassie is speaking with Brogden hoping to join their camp for the safety of her family and herself, she is resistant and untrusting. Brogden asks them why they’re here (at the camp), and Cassie responds, “you mean at this camp, or are you being existential?”. Brogden is confused, and Cassie continues, saying “if you’d asked me that before all this”...”happened, I’d have said something like, ‘We’re here to serve our fellow man or contribute to society.’ If I wanted to be a”...”I’d say, ‘Because if we weren’t here, we’d be somewhere else.’ But since all this”...”has happened, I’m going to say it’s because we’re just dumb lucky”. This shows that she has a mildly sarcastic and snarky side to her personality. Another very important detail we learn from this statement is that even though it’s the ‘apocalypse’, Cassie seems very unafraid and unintimidated by people and situations that most people would panic in. She possesses the ability to poke fun at even the most stressful of

There are a lot of things similar and different in Fahrenheit 451 and The 5th Wave. One of the things similar is that the people do not know what was happening in other places of the world. They are only concerned about their own lives. One thing that is different is that The 5th Wave is taking place in a post-apocalypse world while Fahrenheit 451 is taking place in a world in the future where technology is very advanced. Another thing that is similar is that the government did not tell the people what was going on. Something that is different about this is that the people in Fahrenheit 451 did not care that the government was not telling them anything. In the 5th Wave, the people actually cared. Another thing that is different is the enemy. In The 5th Wave, the enemy is the aliens or the Others. In Fahrenheit 451, the enemy is the government because they view humans as a weapon. In Fahrenheit 451, it says “One drop of rain. Clarisse. Another drop. Mildred. A third. The uncle. A fourth. The fire tonight. One, Clarisse. Two, Mildred. Three, uncle. Four, fire. One, Mildred, two, Clarisse. One, two, three, four, five, Clarisse, Mildred, uncle, fire, sleeping tablets, men, disposable tissues, coattails, blow, wad, flush, Clarisse, Mildred, uncle, fire, tablets, tissues, blow, wad, flush. One, two, three, one, two, three! Rain. The storm. The uncle laughing. Thunder falling downstairs. The whole world pouring down. The fire gushing up in the volcano.All rushing down around the

A book called, Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli, is a novel about a boy and a unique girl that have issues being together because of their companions. The novel, Stargirl, is about Leo Borlock, the narrator, and a unique girl who calls herself, Stargirl Caraway, thus the name of the book. Stargirl is falling in love with Leo, a boy at Mica Area High School (MAHS). The catch to this story is that Leo and Stargirl are having trouble being together because MAHS is full of conformity. Leo conflicts between being a conformist and his desire to be with Stargirl, as she is a non-conformist. This conflict drives Leo from a conformist to an individualist. Leo changes in the story by his inner thinking, dialogue, and revealing actions.

The Fifth Wave, a novel by Rick Yancey, tells the story of Cassie Sullivan as she tries to survive and save her brother from aliens who attacked Earth in five different waves, trying to destroy the human race.

it is able to show why the doctor is helping the boy and why the child

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.