The beginning of The 5th Wave is located at the spot where Cassie is transformed by the weight of the act committed by her into a human being. This is the point where the story really begins. This accident changes her state from a ruthless killer to a caution human being caught in the web of several ethical and emotional concerns. In the beginning of the story, Cassie accidentally kills a soldier, who she identifies as the crucifix soldier. The 5th Wave is a good book that thrills, provokes thoughts and asks some simple yet elegant questions on life. For example, patients will die on operation tables in hospitals, airplanes and vehicles may crash onto one another due to lack of any human control, libraries would be shut down and computers just won’t work any longer. An electromagnetic pulse, just as the one that appears in the book, could cut down almost all our technological implementations, in all walks of life. The 5th Wave shares the knowledge of how insecure we ought to feel in our ordinary existences. It’s not surprising if you found the book a bit spooky. What makes The 5th Wave different from other stories on alien invasion is its tenacity in supplying alternative possibilities for the scenario. It utilizes the same theme that one may see in H G Wells’ novels as well as in countless Hollywood movies ranging from Independence Day to to the cinematic representation of War of the Worlds. The 5th Wave works within the frame of sci-fi literature.
The 5th Wave asks the question of facing a ‘global’ Other. Symbolically speaking, the Other could be anyone including the culturally, socially, and politically marginalized people.
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