The 5th Wave Analysis

Ji-Li successfully argues that in a time of despair, families can overcome their sadness and rise up again; Ji-Li is able to prove this point effectively by providing her own detailed story and including not only her perspective, but also the perspectives of different people such as her classmates and teachers.

These six individuals were inspired and came up with clever ideas to survive this difficult time. For example, “Mr. Matsuo dashed up the front steps and dived among the bedrolls and buried himself there. Mr. Tanimoto took four of five steps and threw himself between two big rocks in the garden” (9). Mr Matsuo’s actions inspired others to act and save themselves from harm. In a traumatic situation, it is natural to be in shock and not respond to the danger. “Mrs. Nakamura suggested going over to fight it. Mrs. Hataya said, “Don’t be foolish. What if planes come and drop more bombs?” So Mrs. Nakamura started out for Asano Park with her children and Mrs. Hataya” (28). A natural instinct for human beings is to go help others but in this case someone needed to tell Mrs. Nakamura that by doing so she would place herself and her children in danger. In difficult times, people need to be told what is best for them because they can not see it for themselves. Furthermore, “His desk was in splinters all over the room, but a mere paper-mâché suitcase, which he

The author of the The 5th Wave, Rick Yancey, had several prominent themes. Three were most vital; first, “war cannot change who a person really is at their core,” second, “people are defined by the choices they make,” and third, “family is worth living for.” These are the best and most important motifs of The 5th Wave.

This applied theory paper will analyze both the macro and micro analysis of the Novel, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman (Fadiman, 1997). In the book “The Spirit Catches You and Falls Down”, the character Lia illness resulted in a cultural divide between the Hmong culture and the American culture. Throughout this paper both the conflict theory and the family systems theory will be used to examine themes of behaviors among the characters in the text. The family and medical team use the applications of a number of different social work theories to navigate through her illness implementing a number of different strategies to nurse her to health. The author Fadiman explores the Lee’s family

One of the greatest impacts caused by disasters is one’s motivation for living. In Slaughterhouse-Five, many characters display twisted minds after experiencing wars. Billy and Rosewater find life meaningless, because they witness too many dead bodies in war; Lazzaro finds the sweetest thing to be revenge. As wars bring distorted senses to people, Vonnegut presents two opposing coping methods in Slaughterhouse-Five: One is the Tralfamadorians’ passive idea and the other is the narrator’s humane notion. The overall concept of the Tralfamadorians is to “ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones” (Vonnegut 150). They do not look back, not even forward; they focus on the scattering patch of good moments regardless of time. A similar idea is how they have come to regard death: “in bad condition in that particular moment, and that the person is just fine in plenty of other moments.” The thought – it is more important that a person has lived a brilliant life – is comforting; however, it disregards the possibilities a person has as long as he or she lives. In an interview, Vonnegut points out that he “resents” the promising ideas, the Utopianism, in science fiction (qtd in Simpson 261). This is disclosed in Breakfast of Champions, when Kilgore Trout indirectly

Starting from the exposition,the main character, Felix is searching for his mother and father to warn them that Nazis are burning books, so he leaves the orphanage that he once live. dedicated to find them. In the sixth chapter filix had saved a little girl from burning up from a fire. “I haul the unconscious girl up onto my back stagger through the smoke and sparks toward the fence”. This quote from the novel explains how people need other people to survive. “The way this shows people need other people to survive” is that is Felix would not have saved this little girl and would not have been their for she would have got killed, Tortured ,or worse. Another quote that expresses the theme that family aren’t just made of the people whom you

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey is a novel about death, survival, and relationships. There are several themes that are visibly evident to the story. A theme is the subject of a piece of writing, as described in the novel. Some of these themes are, “trusting one another is what makes us human”, people are defined by the choices they make”, and “Family is worth dying for”. Each one of these themes are indisputably established as the story progresses.

In The 5th Wave, multiple characters use knowledge to piece together the truth about their situations. One such character is Cassie’s father. As a scholarly man, he wanted to collect and save books when the waves began. He is seen as one of the wiser characters from the start, so it makes sense that he’s one to piece together the reason for the Others’ invasion - they need to use the Earth, but not its inhabitants.

Have you ever wondered why every person matters in a survival situation? In The Infinite Sea, a group of teenagers bind together to survive against a group of aliens called the Others. These aliens aim to bring destruction through manipulating and taking apart humans’ trust for each other. Therefore, the idea that everyone matters is necessary for survival; hence it is also an important recurring theme of the novel and shows through each character’s actions, thoughts and motives.

In Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss gives life to The Four Corners of Civilization through his storytelling. Storytelling gives the author an opportunity to show their experiences and reflect their beliefs within the world they are creating. During the time this book was being written, there was the Iraq and Afghanistan War taking place which had been sending many soldiers back home with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Rothfuss parallels this disorder within his book through the main character, Kvothe, when he experiences trauma and he shows how Kvothe copes with the persisting trauma through grief theory, “four doors of the mind” (135) . His four doors of the mind is similar to the Kubler-Ross Model, which is widely accepted by practitioners, but challenges it by believing the mind copes with pain through the central idea of numbing. However, this mindset of categorizing emotions experienced within grief can be destructive behavior towards any griever rather than helping them cope; stages of post-loss grief do not exist.

Who are the most important people in the world? Many say their family members. Why? Because they help us strive when we’re feeling down, they inspire us when we don’t know where life's taking us, they support us in times of worry. It’s their inspiration towards us that show us we need to stay strong. Their inspiration shows us we need to fight on, and continue on our path to victory. The ones who truly matter are the ones who tell us to keep going, the people who inspire us. Without the inspiration from her brother sammy, her friend Evan, and her father Emily, Cassie would have never lasted this long in the post apocalyptic world she lives in now.

Since the early days, social bonds and cooperation enhanced early ancestors’ survivability. Having the sense of belonging affects thought patters, emotions, and behaviors in human. Dr. Brown continues how the other thing that these people had in common what they fully embraced vulnerability and felt it was necessary (2010). Vulnerability allows a person to fully love. It means taking a chance in an uncertain outcome. Understanding this principle and embracing vulnerability will help individuals to truly take back their lives, like Dr. Brown had. To end her Ted Talk, she closes with her finding to let ourselves be vulnerably seen, to love with our whole hearts, to practice gratitude in moments of terror, and to believe that we’re enough (Brown, 2010). Vulnerability is a difficult for many individuals to practice, but it is important and necessary in belongingness and

Our world moves in a cyclical manner: hearts beat in a constant rhythm; lungs fill and deflate; water moves from the ground, to the sky, and back; and life gives way to death, which rotates again into new life. There is a repetitive pulse constantly surrounding humankind’s experience. The Waves, by Virginia Woolf, creates beautiful recapitulations at the beginning of each section of the novel that build a scene from a single day. Each iteration of the oceanic scene brings a sense of calm before jumping back into the thoughts and judgments of six central characters. The plot switches repeatedly through the different perspectives of these six people, ending in a beautiful crescendo emanating out of the character Bernard. He, who throughout the

John Hersey, the author of the book “Hiroshima”, recounts the tragic events surrounding six survivors living in Hiroshima at a time the atomic bomb was being dropped. “The characters in his account are living individuals, not composite types. The story is their own story, told as far as possible in their own words” (Hersey VI). Part of Hersey’s goal was to emphasize how catastrophic events can foster a need for survival and bring communities together as they lean on each other for support. Although cultural behaviors differ around the globe, the basic needs in which to satisfy for survival are surprisingly similar. For this analysis, we will take a brief look at what is inherent in each of us, the need for survival.

In the midst of the terror, one can learn lessons to last them a lifetime. The people who lived through these events went through a series of obstacles, both mentally and physically. For all three of these occurrences, there were a vast amount of family members lost, which is never an easy pill to swallow. Nothing defeats the mental hardship of leaving one’s grandmother behind in order to escape and survive a tsunami. In the midst of these disasters, there were instances of both selfishness and selflessness. From loss of