The 5th Wave By Rick Yancey

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In the book, The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey, the unusual formatting it used intrigued me. The book goes around in different yet related points of view. As you go from point of view to point of view you find out more information about the situation going on. The book is about Earth in the midst of being taken over by aliens. It’s all very secretive and it’s brilliant how Yancy lets us in on the secret through dramatic irony. The points of view all revolve around the main character, Cassie, and you see the world through the eyes of the enemy and the people around her. This format also creates more suspense because it shows the reasoning for everything and helps sympathize with the antagonist. The separate points of view of everyone’s lives were

The fall of society to aliens is a frightening thought too many. This is exactly what happens in the book The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey. Aliens are attacking the earth in waves and are plunging it into chaos. The book follows the main character Cassie Sullivan as she is traveling to a training facility to try and find her brother in this somber world. Along her travels she meets a boy named Evan Walker. She begins to fall in love with him. Over time it is discovered he is an Other. Others are what the aliens are called. Cassie is shocked but comes to accept it. The story also follows the character Ben Parish who is at the facility called Camp Haven that Cassie is traveling too. He is trained to become part of the army there in a squad. He becomes known as Private Zombie. Cassie’s brother Sammy who is also at the facility ends up joining Zombie’s squad. He becomes known as Private Nugget. As time goes on Zombie’s squad

The Fifth Wave, by Rick Yancey tells the stories of young survivors of an alien invasion and how they must stick together to survive. In this story there are many leading characters including Cassie, Ben and Sammy. Along with these characters there are the not so present characters, we can’t hear their thoughts, or read from their point of view, but we can get to know them through their actions and how others perceive them. Ringer is one of these supporting characters, don’t let that fool you, she does serve a big part in the book. Ringer is memorable, confident and calculating in all she does and says.

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The 5th Wave written by Rick Yancey follows Cassie Sullivan as she tries to survive on Earth after waves of alien invasions devastated the Earth’s population. She is heading to a training facility in the hopes of finding her brother Sam, who was taken there.

The 5th Wave by, New York Times bestselling author, Rick Yancey is the most outstanding book I have ever read in the science fiction genre. In this book the protagonist, Cassie Sullivan, has many challenges to fight through. As any other book, there is always a conflict, which was the aliens in the human shape came to take all the kids in their camp, including Cassie's brother. Cassie fights for her life to rescue her brother, which she does after a war with Camp Heaven.

The beginning of the book starts with a girl (You don't know her name yet) she is around 16 years of age and alone. She has been living in the wilderness for several weeks living of off food and water at an abandoned gas station. Then one morning she walks into the gas station and feels something is wrong, But decides to investigate. While she was investigating she noticed a shadow in the freezer room. She soon came to realize it was a boy bleeding all over the floor and she wasn't sure to trust him or not.

The book “The 5th Wave” by Rick Yancey is breathtaking and very suspenseful; the main character is Cassie Sullivan and major supporting characters are Sammy (Cassie’s brother), Evan (the person who saved her life), Ben Parish (her high school crush and is in Sam’s squad) and the antagonist Vosch. The initial mood is thoughtful because Cassie is thinking about the “Others”, as everyone calls the unseen aliens, attacking the world and what if she is the only human on Earth left, what will she do. The conflict is Cassie has to survive the dreadful waves for the sake of her brother and to keep the promise she made to Sammy when she made him get on the bus with strangers to go to a safe place. There is no specific setting in this book because to fulfill her goal Cassie has to run away from the “Others” and find out where her brother is being kept and save him. To do that she runs away from Camp Ashpit where her father was killed by Vosch and unknowingly goes into the woods. Cassie will have to trust her instincts and where it takes her because after the Arrival there is nothing in the world that can happen, which will sound bizarre.

There are fifty-two weeks in a year. Of those fifty-two weeks, forty-seven are used for work and only five can be used to rest, relax, and recharge. What happens after those five weeks? The only thing left is to return to work at the same monotonous job as before. It seems like those five weeks should be used to their fullest extent, but they often are not. I have heard family members complain, countless times, that they do not want to use their paid time off. Whenever I ask why I either get a shrug or a slow “I do not know”. This has left me to ponder. As a student, I have always been able to feel and see the importance of breaks. A nice, long break can create time for me to rest and focus so that not even the minutest detail can get passed

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Armed with sarcasm and a dry sense of humour, Cassie says everything we wished we had the guts to say. She is alone in the wilderness and is driven by a promise she made to her little brother Sammy and that is what makes her so effortless to like.The way that Cassie describes her family being torn apart made me hold back tears. She is strong-willed and emotionally loving. She is a girl who has had to grow up in order to stay alive. However, there are times when Cassie lets her guard down and you remember that she is just a teenager.