The 5th Wave Book Report

Regardless of who you are, where you come from or what you do, everyone faces difficulties in their lives. This statement could easily define the very meaning of SE Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, which can be summed up in the phrase ‘things are rough all over.’ This is a metaphor used very early on in the book by Cherry Valance when she and Ponyboy Curtis discuss the differences between their two social groups (pg 43). It means that everyone falls upon difficult times no matter what. I will be exploring how things are hard for three characters in The Outsiders, Johnny, Randy and Darry.

Aliens invaded, your family dies, and you only have one chance to save the only person you have left to love. There is major conflict within this one sentence. Conflict is a very strong part in this book. In Rick Yancey’s novel, “The 5th Wave”, it shows the struggle of a young girl and a young boy who are trying to survive an invasion. The conflict is a big part of this book, and that is what the author uses to develop the personalities within the character. Also how they feel when it all happens to them. The conflicts throughout the book are person vs self, person vs person, person vs society, and person vs nature. Which all develop the two character sin this novel.

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

Both “Zero Hour” by Ray Bradbury and War of The Worlds by H.G Wells present to us a society under attack by Martians. However, their stories are both very diverse pieces and this is presented in a medley of ways. The authors of War of The Worlds and “Zero Hour” portray alien invasions in different ways through the character’s arrival and different methods of arrival.

Books that get published nowadays are usually intended for a specific audience. This often leads to a lack of interest by different audiences; Yancey, however, mitigates this problem with ease. “Finding a manuscript that will satisfy both audiences has become the holy grail of publishing. It's a tricky line to walk, and few succeed. But Rick Yancey's wildly entertaining new novel, The 5th Wave, is such a book” (Cronin). Mr. Cronin states it quite well, the book is incredibly entertaining. From

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.

One of the main themes the author conveys is fear. In the teleplay, neighbors are afraid of each other because they don’t know who the aliens are and what they will do next. An example of fear is when Charlie shoots Pete Van Horn. Pete was walking back to Maple Street, and Charlie shot him, thinking Pete was the alien. “But.. I didn’t know he was… He comes walkin’ out of the darkness. How am I supposed to know he wasn’t a monster

That gave Cassie the time to set the trap into motion. Because she thought and took in her surroundings, she was able to escape the silencer and return to Ringer. “ In the ache of time grinding to a crawl, the power line falls from the prey’s hand in a graceful, sweeping arc. The light sparks off exposed wires as they descend languidly as snow. The line that gracefully falls slips through the silencer’s fingers. The light glints off the wires as the touch ground, silently, like falling snow”(Yancey 298). This shows how Cassie took in her surroundings and came up with a better way to handle her situation. She knew how once a silencer, you are faster, stronger, and better in every physical way. She knew she would be beaten if she tried to run, so she decided to eliminate the silencer. This is important because it helps show another critical example of how the theme fits this story. The theme fits this scene because Cassie tried her best to create a trap that would work against the silencer, and because she put so much effort into it, she ended up succeeding and returning to Ringer. This refers back to the theme, because Cassie did exactly what the theme is. When a problem was handed to her, she tried her best to solve it, and in return her solution worked.

Often times, settings aid in setting a tone for a piece of writing. In "Rough Road Ahead: Do Not Exceed Posted Speed Limit" by Joe Kurmaskie, the setting is able to instill varying emotions into the author. The desolate desert that Kurmaskie is trapped in elicits feelings of hopelessness and debilitation. After trusting someone for directions, he has gotten lost; which has led into severe dehydration, desperation, and exhaustion. Throughout Kurmaskie's period of weakness, he was also furious due to the misdirection. The further Kurmaskie traveled into nothingness, the worse his feelings and physical state would progress.

The authors of “Zero Hour” and “The War of the Worlds” have their own unique ideas of an alien invasion if it ever were to happen. Both texts display the emotions characters must face throughout the invasion. These authors might have had their own style of writing for these stories, but they still the same impact. Both authors display alien invasions that will forever change mankind and the world as they know it.

In “The 5th Wave”

The novel, Slopes of War, by Norah Perez is a historical fiction book based on the gruesome events that occurred during the Civil War. These events all had a significant theme within them. Throughout the novel the themes in which I think were significantly portrayed were love, the needing of another and the fear of failure.

The author’s purpose in writing The Eighth Day was to teach a lesson. Not everything comes to you as easy as you think. Throughout the book, the main character, Jax struggles to obtain his friendship with Evangeline. Jax is called a transitioner. That means that he has eight days in a week. Evangeline is what they call kin. In this book, kin means that she can only live 1 out of all 8 days. This is a struggle for Jax because, for everyone one of her days, he has seven more. Plus, Jax’s guardian, Riley, was trying to keep Jax away from Evangeline. Riley is her captor. He has trapped her in a house and is going to keep her there until she dies. Jax doesn’t realize this is for her own good, and he goes against Riley to get her out. Riley is

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.

Tough love relationships keep people’s daily lives interesting. It challenges people and their relationship with others whether if it’s an optimistic tough love or a pessimistic tough love. People need tough love to help them better themselves. It hurts but “it’s a necessary pain” (Schneider 46). As for authors, authors need to included tough love relationships in their works because it is a necessity. Tough love relationships to author’s works is like milk to cereal. Cereal would not taste good without milk and an author’s work would be a bit dull without a tough love relationship. Authors generally have different definitions of tough love in their works and for the most part, the readers play