The 5 (Emotional) Waves You’ll Experience While Reading THE 5TH WAVE1st Wave: Admiration. Ringer has a daughter that she decides to name Cassie in her honor.
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Her brother is left in the care of Ben and Ringer, plus Evan (for a time). Before the waves hit, she had a crush on Ben Parish, a popular football player.Ĭassie ultimately sacrifices her life to destroy The Others’ spaceship and thus saving the remaining number of humans on Earth. They’ve also taken to taking care of Sam and Megan alongside Evan before he leaves them.ġ6 years oldCassiopeia Marie Sullivan or “Cassie”– the novel’s protagonist, is 16 years old, short, and has curly strawberry-blonde hair. 16, and EW has an exclusive first look at the trailer.Īfter the 5th Wave is beaten and The Others’ spaceship is destroyed, Ben and Ringer (Marika now), end up together and raise her daughter Cassie. The Infinite Sea, the much-anticipated follow-up to Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave, hits shelves Sept. With the help of Ben’s squad, Cassie, Ben, and Sammy survive.The 5th Wave is pretty loyal to the book, but there were still many changes.Ĭassie, Evan, Ben, Ringer–yes, they all made it into the movie.īut that doesn’t mean that there weren’t some characters from Rick Yancey’s book that weren’t cut from the film. Evan helps Cassie, Ben, and Sammy escape, but stays behind to destroy the base. Vosch threatens to kill Sammy, but Evan has gotten onto the base and sabotage Vosch’s systems. On their way to safety, they run into Vosch. Ben agrees to join them even though he is weary of trusting anyone. As she attempts to escape with him, they run into Ben. However, Ben refuses to leave Sammy behind at the base and insists on going back.Ĭassie sneaks onto the base and manages to make her way to a bunker where Sammy is being held. Ben tries to convince the other soldiers and only succeeds when one of them accidentally kills himself with a drill sergeant's device. When Ben and Ringer discover a sniper who was shooting at them is really their drill sergeant, Ben believes her.
One of Ben’s soldiers, a girl called Ringer, convinces him that the soldiers at the base, including Vosch, have been lying to them. The little boy is convinced that his sister is coming to save him.Īs Ben’s training ends and he is sent on his first mission, Cassie and Evan set out to save Sammy from the military base. As he trains, Ben meets a five year old boy who is scared of everything. He wants to go out and kill the aliens who destroyed his family. Ben joins a squad and trains to be a soldier.
Vosch, the camp's commander, comes to see Ben and gives him a reason to continue the fight. However, Ben is so depressed that he failed to save his sister’s life that he is slow to recover. Ben is taken to a military camp where he is given medications that cure him of the illness. Just as Ben believes he is going to die, the camp is raided by soldiers. However, Cassie soon comes to suspect Evan is a Silencer, perhaps even the Silencer who shot her.īen Parish is living in a refugee camp when he becomes ill with the Ebola virus. Cassie is rescued by a young farm boy, Evan. Cassie becomes sick as the snows begin to fall and nearly dies. However, as Cassie makes her way to the military base, she is shot in the leg by an alien hosts she refers to as Silencers. Cassie promised her little brother Sammy that she would come for him at the military base where the soldiers took him after their father's death. Ironically, before the soldiers gunned down her father, she had believed that they would save her family.Ĭassie now lives alone in the woods. During the fourth wave, her father was killed by soldiers. Cassie's mother died from the Ebola virus in the second wave. Cassie is a survivor of an alien invasion that has come in four waves. She thinks she might be the last human left on Earth. The fifth wave is just beginning as teenagers Cassie and Ben make their way separately through a world they no longer understand.Ĭassie is alone. Then, in the fourth wave it is discovered that some humans are hosts to the alien forms. The third wave occurs when a modified Ebola virus wipes out more than seven billion people. In the second wave, a massive bar is dropped from space that causes total destruction on every coastline in the world. During the first wave, an EMP destroys all electronics on earth. In the novel, aliens invade the earth, bringing death and destruction in five well defined waves. The 5th Wave, written by Rick Yancy, is a dystopic novel that takes the genre to a new level.
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