For my independent reading assignment I read The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey. The 5th wave is a gripping novel taking many points of view and many points in time. The book is about an alien invasion and a teenage girl Cassidy’s journey to save her family and the world. In the book aliens are taking over humans and trying to exterminate all humans. “How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.” (pg. 45) When Cassidy says this she us talking about what the aliens are doing to the human race. They are making people act like animals by brainwashing, imprisonment, and many more brutal ways. For example, Cassidy’s brother, Sam, and thousands of other children are told false propaganda by aliens in disguise as human
