The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey
The Second Book of The 5th Wave
Summary
Theme
Having hope is the strongest thing you have to hold onto when everything else is falling apart.
"No hope without faith, no faith without hope, no love without trust, no trust without love. Remove one and the entire human house cards collapses." Rick Yancey
Sacrifice
If you sacrifice everything you have for who or what you love your humanity is not destroyed.
Page 295, "He scooped the plastic bag from the floor. Her hand fell on his arm and yanked him toward her as if he weighed nothing at all. She should finish him with a single punch to his dying heart. But all he had to do was breathe. He slapped the opening of the bag over his mouth and breathed." Rick Yancey
Humanity
Fight for what you believe in when there is no one else left and your humanity does not perish.
Page 99, "I am humanity. He crawled. I am humanity. He fell. I am humanity. He got up." Rick Yancey
Settings
Location: Ohio
Settings
Location: Basically Death Sentence City
Ringer
Cassie Sullivan
Zombie
Razor
Page 242, "He lets it slip that his given name is Alex like A-Rod and his drill sergeant named him Razor not because he was slender because he cut himself shaving one morning. I have very sensitive skin. His sentences are without periods, without commas, without paragraphs, or, to be accurate, it's all one long paragraph with no margins." Rick Yancey (Ringer)
Evan Walker
Vosch
Conflicts
More like Man vs Other (alien)
Vosch is the alien in charge and he gets what he wants, so when he chooses Ringer as a lab rat there is no telling what kind of weapon he wants to turn her in to.
Evan and Grace have a lot of history together and she recently comes back into his life only to murder everyone he is close to.
Man vs Self- Cassie vs Herself
Throughout the entire book Cassie contemplates leaving the hotel for the safety of herself and her brother. She is there with the people who risked their own lives to save her, so she's having a hard time leaving them. She also has trouble leaving because Evan had made a promise to meet her there and has yet to follow through.
Man vs Nature- Throughout the book (Evan Walker/Ringer)
Evan has suffered many injuries from an explosion and attacks by people from his past.
Ringer is suffering from injuries and starvation from escaping the camp and finding her way back to her friends.