The Fifth Wave Analysis

In Rick Yancey’s The Fifth Wave, Cassie, a teenager, wants to save her brother. The Others invaded with different waves and Cassie is living through them. The First Wave destroyed all electronics including vehicles all vehicles. The Others used an EMP to take out the lights. It was over in seconds but the lights stayed off. The Second Wave was slightly longer. The Third Wave was the Blood Plague, this wave lasted weeks upon weeks. Cassie’s mom started to show symptoms of the plague. So her father decided not to go to Camp Ashpit just yet. The Fourth Wave brought Silencers. Which meant it may look human but it is probably a Other. Others are the aliens or the extraterrestrials that are invading earth. Cassie’s mom ended up dying, after she was …show more content…
Later, one of the Others’ drone noticed the camp. Everyone at Camp Ashpit had to stay inside until the drone passed. Not long after a school bus and a group of soldiers came to take the children to Camp Haven. Sammy and Cassie try to go together but they get stopped. They stated that Cassie is too old and she will have to stay and wait for the next bus. Cassie is now irate; she does not want Sammy to go without her. Her father sends him on the bus anyway. Not long after the bus left with all the children the military starts to kill the adult. Cassie runs and finds cover in the woods. Her father tries to get to the armory. As a result, he is killed in the process. The soldiers that are really Others terminate the camp with the Eye. Cassie is now by herself and she is traveling on the highway when she is shot in the leg by a Silencer. She finds cover underneath a Buick slowly bleeding to death. She blacks out and wakes up in a bed with clean clothes on. She was rescued by Evan. As she is recovering they learn a lot about each other and even slightly fall in love. He also teaches her how to be a good shot. Cassie soon learns that Evan was the Silencer that shot her in the leg. She also learns that he is not on hundred percent