Welcome back to my blog! It has been such a long time since we last talked about independent reading. The topic of this week's post: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey. Rick Yancey's book is of the science fiction genre.
We start off on a girl. She is all alone. This girl believes she is the last human alive on Earth. We go through backstory as to how the Others have destroyed humanity. We don't know what the others look like and where they come from. They have supposedly have been living amongst the human race for thousands of years. The girl has recently lost her brother and father a while back. She explains the rules of surviving the apocalypse. #1: Trust no one. #2: Kill or be killed. #3: Never break these rules.
Later we are told the girl's name is Cassie. She is leaving her campsite of all her supplies to go look for more. Bringing her M16, she hikes to a nearby gas station. She finds it ironic that when the world is ending, lottery tickets and flashy items are pillaged, but not tons of cases of water essential for survival. Cassie senses a disturbance as she enters the gas station. In the back room is a bleeding solider asking for mercy. BANG! In his hand was a crucifix.
The 5th Wave brings me to this point: If society was ever thrown into chaos, would humans give up the morals that make us who we are? I agree that if D-Day ever comes that it is survival of the fittest, but would I be willing to turn on my own kind in a heartbeat? What happened to a house divided will not stand? Shouldn't Cassie be banding up with whoever she finds? I still can't make sense of this book. Til next time. Goodbye!
