Next Section Metaphors and Similes Previous Section Because of Kitsner and The Black Hole Summary and Analysis Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format GradeSaver "The 5th Wave Symbols, Allegory and Motifs". It represents her hope for surviving, for one day finding Sammy and taking him home. The gun symbolizes Cassie's freedom and her capability. They allow her a sense of safety and power that she could never have if she was unarmed - or even armed with just a knife. Cassie spends a lot of time talking about her guns - the M16 and the Luger - and how they ensure her safety. She came back, not for him, but for her gun and Sammy's bear. Where was I supposed to go, without my gun and especially without that damned bear, my reason for living?" (358)Ĭassie expresses this sentiment when she comes back to find Evan gone. It provides a glimpse of humanity into an otherwise rather mysterious and secretive military man. It drives him to do what he does, to survive, just as Cassie is driven by the teddy bear and Ben is driven by the silver locket. This photo is all Colonel Vosch has left of his family. Being held in the arms of a pretty lady around Vosch's age." (127) There's a little blond kid around six, maybe seven. "He tosses a wallet-size photo into my lap. Ben cannot live with himself because of this incident. He pulled it from her neck as he tried to save her from the thieves robbing their house, but they killed her anyway. At first, The 5th Wave admirably conveys the contrast between warm nostalgia and the absurdist catastrophes befalling humanity. Its an adaptation of the first book in the bestselling.
My fingers hook on the locket around her neck and tear the silver chain free." (118)įor Ben, the older brother of Sissy, the silver locket is the last memento of her that he has. The latest dystopian fantasy to join its franchise wars is The 5th Wave, which is touting its literary provenance as its strongest weapon. The teddy bear symbolizes her hope that not everything in the world is evil yet, and that maybe an innocent, sweet soul like five-year-old Sammy could survive and make his way back to Cassie. It also symbolizes her last hope that some part of her family lives and that she can one day rebuild her life in some way. This teddy bear becomes a symbol to Cassie of what she lives for and what she hopes to achieve - saving Sammy.
Sammy gives Cassie a teddy bear as he prepares to board the school bus with the soldiers. Otherwise, the original signals magnitude (220) would be too big compared to the harmonics one. He pushed the teddy bear into my chest." (82) Notice how the harmonics have an amplitude of 100 in order to be visualized in the spectrum plot. The owl symbolizes the unknown and our fear of it. It first appears in a woman's dream, and it is hinted that it has appeared in many other dreams in the chapter named Intrusion: 1995. The tone varies throughout the book when it switches point of view with Ben and Cassie and also in more intense situation.