Peeta Mellark In The 5th Wave

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Reality Nobody can teach someone else how to grow up. You can’t force someone to mature and realize they need to stop being so profoundly immature. People have a difficult time with letting the past go and/or breaking old habits that they don’t want to change. While reading The 5th Wave, the main character has to cope with losing her family, and coming to grips with that she now has to provide solely for herself with no help from anyone else, until later in the story. Nobody told her she was going to have to provide for herself, it was something that she knew she had to do. The statement stated in the first sentence of this essay connects with the movie, The Hunger Games. One of the main characters Peeta Mellark, is thrown into a bloodbath

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