Sixteen-year-old Cassie(Cassiopeia) Sullivan is one of the unlucky ones that survived all four waves. The first wave- lights out, half of a million people dead in one day. The third wave wiped out ninety-seven percent of humans with a pestilence. Now all four waves have passed and all her loved ones are gone, but not her little brother, Sammy. The fifth wave is coming. Cassie is alone with only her M16 rifle and Sammys teddy bear as her companion. Aliens have invaded Earth, and the world as she knows it is over. These are not stereotypical E.T. versions of sweet, harmless greens aliens, these extraterrestrial creatures are disguised as humans and are determined to exterminate human race. Since the aliens have disguised themselves, Cassie will …show more content…
not trust anyone, so she stays alone. But when Cassie meets Evan Walker, a mysterious yet beguiling guy, she knows he is her only hope in finding her brother. Now Cassie must choose: to put her life on the line while in despair and find her brother or to be intransigent and continue fending for herself. The Fifth Wave, written by Rick Yancey, is an astonishing and suspenseful novel that leaves you captivated throughout the whole book.
From page one, I was enthralled by the incredible dystopian Yancey created. Yancey did not create a dystopian like any other, this one is being taken over by aliens, also know as the “Others”. The first they heard of the Others is when there were satellite pictures of the mothership passing Mars, which is known as the Arrival. When this happened there was mayhem, humanity had no clue how to prepare or what they were preparing for, so they: had parades, rooftop parties, sit ins at the UN, the Security Council went in lock down, the president addressed the nation, and the majority of people went to Disney World. On the tenth day, the first wave came, that was lights out, a massive electromagnetic pulse wrenched through the atmosphere resulting in any form of electricity being cut out. As previously stated, the first wave killed about half a million people, but for the Others that was just the beginning. The second wave came and it was surfs up. Some type of metal slab came crashing from high orbit onto a major geological fault line, followed by a massive tsunami that wiped out the world coastlines. Only the lucky ones survived that attack, because approximately three billion people died. The attack that I personally think was the worst of them all, was the third wave. It was a virus known as “the blood plague” that took down most of humanity.
The blood plague started as a simple cold, but then resulted into blood coming from every orifice, eventually taking over your mind. Soon the fourth wave came and so did the silencers, whom are assinators. Silencers are were previously infected humans whose job was to kill the remnants of the human population. Now it is the dawn of the fifth wave. Cassie believes to survive you have to stand alone, right until she is wounded by an unknown Silencer and is rescued by Evan Walker. Cassie has embarked on a mission to find and save Sammy, her five year old brother, from a military complex he was sent to by the Others. And Evan Walker might be her only chance in finding him, but she knows this peculiar farm boy is hiding something from her. Will Cassie open up to Walker and risk her life to find her brother or will she continue to be defiant and stay alone? Overall, The 5th Wave is an electrifying and original novel, that I recommended to anyone that enjoys a good read. The characters Yancey created were so unique in their own way, which I really enjoyed. I especially like how the character development continues along with nonstop action and climaxes. The 5th Wave is an amazing novel, although the book was not flawless. The 5th Wave is told from two point of views, Cassies and Zombies, whom is boy that she reunites with from the past. As the point of views continued to change it was a bit compuzzling. Nevertheless, The 5th Wave is an action packed novel filled with lovable characters, big heroics, exciting surprises, romantic scenes, and heartfelt tragedies. If you want a change from typical post-apocalyptic stories, than The 5th Wave is for you.
And when it became clear to us that things were bad, the rest of the world still lacked comprehension.. We don’t see our own vulnerability until we’re standing knee-deep in mud in our basements” (Knufken 510-512). Her frustration about the desensitization of disasters and people’s reaction towards them is portrayed through statements such as this one. A different form of frustration is also noticed when she claims that she “wanted to help, but the rain wouldn’t stop. All I could do, all any of us could do was watch and wait, watch and wait"(Knufken 510-512). Her tone of frustration at this point is due to her reflection upon the inability which she had to help, her powerlessness and the lack of ability which all of the victims of this disaster had. This tone continues throughout most of the essay as she compares disasters such as this flood, to being another face in the crowd of headlines. She furthers this frustration by stating that “today alone, I read in the news that 260,000 people had to evacuate Kyoto due to a typhoon. In Washington’s Navy Yard, someone murdered 13 people with a gun. There’s the new episode of “Breaking Bad” and the threat of war in Syria. every headline screams to be first in line. Everything is a crisis” (Knufken
It is commonplace for individuals to envision a perfect world; a utopian reality in which the world is a paradise, with equality, happiness and ideal perfection. Unfortunately, we live in a dystopian society and our world today is far from perfection. John Savage, from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, V, from V for Vendetta by James McTeigue and Offred, from The Handmaid’s Tale by Margret Attwood, are all characters in a dystopian society. A dystopia is the vision of a society in which conditions of life are miserable and are characterized by oppression, corruption of government, and abridgement of human rights.
Throughout World War Z by Max Brooks, readers can see how the apocalypse begins. Some of these mistakes can be considered individual human error, but overall can be seen as the government failing to serve its purpose. For example, early in the book, China first discovered that there was a newfound disease starting to spread. Instead of taking the responsibility for this disease, they shrugged it off and redirected other countries attentions. This caused the disease to start as a small outbreak and eventually multiplied. This failure in government can be seen as somewhat of a selfish act in order to preserve the country’s secrecy. Because they did not take the initiative to tell anyone else about the disease, people were unable to take caution and prevent themselves from contracting the plague. Similar to the book Blindness, nobody understood that the disease was amongst them at first. People were suddenly beginning to go blind with many unanswered questions. However, there was never any real truth to be revealed to the citizens in Blindness as there was in World War Z.
The 5th Wave follows two main characters, Cassie and Ben, and two supporting characters, Sammy and The Silencer. It starts with Cassie's point of view on the alien infringement; she calls them The Others. There were five waves of the alien attack. The first wave was an electric shock sent out at 11 a.m. that killed a half million people. The second wave was more complicated; The Others dropped a gigantic metal rod on a fault line causing anyone who lives sixty miles of any fault to explode. There goes 40 percent of the population. The third wave was a disease carried by bird to make one bleed out. Cassie's father estimated that 97 percent of the world was dead with only the immune left to survive. The fourth wave was knowing to trust no one. The fifth wave? Well, everyone might just figure that out a little too late.
covers the area, causing people, animals, and structures to practically disintegrate. Even years afterwards people were still dying and having
...econd learning outcome that is present in the novel is: Analyse how audience and purpose affect the structure and content of texts. The Year of The Flood is a novel clearly written for the modern era we live in today. Her dystopian novel targets a western and current audience. Therefore many of the main themes in the novel are portrayed in a way that shows the newly arisen problems of today’s society, for example the health care problems that are becoming increasingly grave as people gradually realize that science does not have the answer to all the needs humans have, and that it have dangerous side effects to the ecosystems and human health. Its main themes cater to today’s culture and extended the problems of government control displayed in most famous dystopian novels, to illuminating the problems that scientific developments have on the future and present world.
with a vivid imagery of a world that was already falling apart, prior to humanity’s infliction upon
Have you ever thought what a world without children would be? Well, from comparing both “Brave New World” and “Children of Men,” it is found that a world without children is a dystopia. In other words, it is a complete disaster and everything in the world is not how it is today. By comparing the Brave New World society and the society in the film “Children of Men,” we can establish that in both dystopias there are no children, which impacts the relationship between man and woman. War, drugs, castes are common in both dystopias, as people tend to cope drugs to get away from the reality of war caused by people of different “castes.”
[1]George Orwell was completely against totalitarianism, "He was fighting Franco 's insurgents in Spain as a member of a left-wing, but non-Stalinist militia" (BBC.com "Orwell 's Road to Dystopia").
Dystopia, a word that inflicts feelings of malcontent, fear, a place where abysmal conditions are the new normal, this genre describes a society where everything has and continues to go wrong. This genre has gripped the hearts of many readers and is compelling for people of all ages. The dystopian book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a thrilling book that introduces the reader to a world where the society tries to force everything to be perfect, and danger lurks around every twist and turn. The meaning of dystopia, the characteristics of the genre, and how it is presented in Fahrenheit 451, contributes to how one could understand the dystopian style of literature.
Dystopian novels are written to reflect the fears a population has about its government and they are successful because they capture that fright and display what can happen if it is ignored. George Orwell wrote 1984 with this fear of government in mind and used it to portray his opinion of the current government discretely. Along with fear, dystopian novels have many other elements that make them characteristic of their genre. The dystopian society in Orwell’s novel became an achievement because he utilized a large devastated city, a shattered family system, life in fear, a theme of oppression, and a lone hero.
A utopia is a society that is characterized by being one in which everything is perfect or ideal. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia, a society where everyday life is less than perfect. These concepts are widely subjective for varying parties, as some may view the utopian society they live in as a dystopia and choose to leave to find true happiness for themselves. This is demonstrated in the novels, Into the Wild, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, and The Warmth of Other Suns. These three novels each demonstrate the same underlying themes. The main protagonists in each novel must deal with a realization that they are unhappy with the current state of their lives, they had to leave in search of a better life, and they must deal with the changes brought by there actions as it affects the state of the society they left. These various accounts serve to form a concept for the most ideal utopia within the three texts.
Throughout dystopian works the human versus nature conflict acts as a catalyst for the hardship society endures. Where nature represents innocence and vulnerability, a lack of it symbolizes a world of corruption and constraint. In worlds where society synergizes with nature, there is confidence in the future similar to the cycle of the Eloi and Morlocks in The Time Machine. However in worlds such as, Andrew Stanton’s Wall-E, Mordecai Roshwald’s Level 7 and The Matrix by the Wachowski brothers, an obvious lack of nature adds to the seemingly hopelessness of the work’s atmosphere. The root of suffering in dystopian worlds stems from the human pursuit to conquer nature.
Society today is made up of a mixture of personalities, some people from strong, independent families that know where they with financial security, over privileged people who have earned heaps of money and may not be aware of the hardships of those who are less fortunate and who try to live day by day. Throughout the four texts, ‘Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins, ‘Divergent’ by Veronica Roth, ‘Death Cure’ by James Dashner and ‘The Host’ by Stephenie Meyer, we see the recurring themes of isolation of minorities, decrease in the quantity of life, finding your identity and oppression of life seeking our future which creates many consequences. The protagonists have differences that set them
An agent of the state is a person who has been granted authority by the state to carry out the work of the state or a portion of the work and who obligated by contract to do so. In most cases, and agent of the state is not seen as a bad thing. A teacher, for example, can be considered an agent of the state in the US. He or she has been granted the authority to produce an educational plan for a group of students, to make assignments, provide other activities that provide educational opportunities for those students, and to assess and evaluate the student's' achievement relative to those opportunities. In exchange, he or she will be paid. In the US, agents of the state are a positive thing, but in other situations, they could been seen as a