Cassie Sullivan's Tragic Hero In The Fifth Wave

In The Fifth Wave the protagonist Cassie Sullivan is strong willed. She is petrified has to do whatever it takes to keep her alive.Throughout the book Cassie is fighting. She is fighting not only for her life but for her families life. It becomes evident when Cassie goes on a bus. The bus is transporting children 18 years and younger to the U.S. Navy base Fort Knox, where the children will be safe, and be trained as soldiers to take down “the others”.When Cassie’s little brother Sammy forgets his stuffed teddy bear Nugget, Sammy begs Cassie to run back and retrieve Nugget from their cabin. As Cassie is running to retrieve Nugget the bus leaves and Cassie is stranded in the camp by herself. Cassie knows that if she wants to survive, she is going to have to be careful. Cassie believes...“The first rule of surviving the 4th Wave is don't trust anyone. It doesn't matter what they look

She finds a shop but hears someone in the back in pain. As she walks over to the door , she opens it revealing a man with a gunshot wound. The man has his hand inside of his pocket, Cassie thinking it is a gun yells at him to remove his hand. He removes his hand slowly. Cassie believes she sees a gun, by the shimmer of an object in his hand. She shoots him. When the man is dead she reaches into his hand to see what the object was. It was a crucifix. As Cassie is starting on her trek to Fort Knox she gets shot in the leg. Cassie shows she is about to give up, for instance she says “I'm talking about the Cassie I was before the Arrival, before the Others parked their alien butts in high orbit. … When I cry—when I let myself cry—that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone. “ (137) This shows that Cassie is a different person ever since the Others came into everyone's life. She grieves for her old