Cassie the main character is falling head over heals for the boy that rescued her from her death, Evan Walker. Doing so she has already broken her first rule she refuses to break don’t trust others, “The first rule of surviving the 4th wave is don’t trust anyone” (Yancey 8). Cassie is constantly debating her own thoughts with herself through the book. When Rick Yancey does this it continuously adds suspense to …show more content…
Rick Yancey constructs his novel to make this possible. A main character that almost dies may make the reader cry or almost cry, “Evan’s body at the bottom of the ravine, ripped to shreds, all because I was one thing he found worth dying for” (Yancey 342). How Yancey places his words makes it sound like the character is dead. He does not say that he is dead directly though, keeping the reader on the edge of their seat praying that the character does not die. Holding the reader for that extra paragraph can make the reader get emotional and zoned into the book, creating a flavorful lingering taste in the readers mouth while they are on the edge of their seat ☺(Hyperbole). Rick Yancey’s book is not musty it’s stately. The novel The 5th Wave is unique compared to other books on the market. The book is unique by having a main character lack the ability to make their own decisions, having several different narrators in the story, and creating emotional moments that the reader can connect to making the novel The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey a 4.8 out of 5 novel (Full circle ending).
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