As I start to near Chapter 54, Cassie is still staying with Evan, the silencer, but it is different now because she knows something is wrong and she is starting to have major suspicions about Evan and who he really is.

Cassie is feeling really conflicted because she feels that Evan should not be trusted, but there has been no proof that supports any reason as to why Evan shouldn’t be trusted.

However, Evan gives countless reasons to leave the house to ‘go hunt’ while Cassie stays at the home by herself. Apparently, Evan gives Cassie anxiety and nervousness.

A main example of this anxiety/nervousness is when Cassie is home alone and hears a creak near her bedroom door. She picks up her gun and braces herself in case something dangerous enters her room, and pulls the door open. After opening the door, Cassie is really angry that it is just Evan on the other side, mainly because he scared her.

Conflict starts to arise in Cassie’s trust when Evan talks to her about his girfriend’s and siblings death.

The writer does a really good job with having Cassie and the reader feel the same about Evan, because he writes the book in such a way that Cassie’s emotions draw out my emotions, so I can side with Cassie when she is struggling with her trust for Evan.

Through all that Evan has shared with her, Cassie tries to make herself believe that Evan is someone she can trust, but she still has skepticisms.

At the moment, The 5th Wave novel has taken an unexpected turn. In the last post, Evan Walker, a silencer, was struggling with something inside of him that prevented him from killing Cassie Sullivan, the main character of the book.

The unexpected turn is that Evan Walker has taken in Cassie and is taking care of her injuries. Cassie woke up in Evan’s home, and he has been taking care of her ever since. What Cassie does not know however, is that Evan is actually the silencer that was attempting to kill Cassie on the highway.

This part of the book brings out a lot of emotion in me because I cannot do anything to warn Cassie that Evan is a killer, and I just have to keep reading to find out what happens. Through background knowledge provided from the book, I can foreshadow what will happen in the future of the novel.

This is one of the things that I think the author, Rick Yancey, does best, which is to give the reader a feeling of suspense and interest to keep reading. he does a really god job of ‘hooking’ the reader in and wanting to continue reading to see what happens next.

So far, the 5th Wave has proved to be a really intriguing book and includes a very capivating plot.

Right now, I am at a cliffhanger, where Cassie is pinned underneath a car because an alien “silencer” is sniping at her. From a change of theme from survival to a life-death situation, the book is constantly keeping me on my toes and waiting for the next big event.

The antagonist is the silencer who is Evan Walker, who is struggling to kill Cassie because he had followed her for so long and is struggling for some reason. He had been stalking her for about a week and saw her kill the crucifix soldier.

Something is holding him back, and I am interested in finding out what it is that is preventing him from finishing his job.

As of reading this book for the past week, the 5th Wave is a survival story of a young girl, Cassie Sullivan who is left to fend for herself after the death of her parents and younger brother. In the beginning, she was talking about how aliens had started to decimate the human population through a tsunami, triggering a fault line, frying all electronics and engines, and a disease with a 97% kill rate. Right now, I am on Chapter 17 and Cassie is remembering her past where her dad, brother, and her were together on a military base.

“How would you rather die?” she snapped. “Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?”

Good question.

Yancey, pg. 19

Previously, she had used the M16 rifle that her father had given her to kill a soldier who was in desperate need of help. Cassie was worried, nervous, and scared, because it is difficult to tell the aliens from the humans. She shot the dying soldier in fear of him attacking her.

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