Natural Disasters Exposed In The Novel Wave By Eric Walters

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Daryn Kagan once said, “Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disaster, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.” A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from a natural process that happens suddenly without any alerts. It causes a massive number of losses and leads to the deaths of many. It also forces a lot of people to be displaced and homeless. On December 26, 2004, a huge and severe natural disaster called a Tsunami hit the South and Southeast of Asia including Thailand. The estimated number of victims and missing people was between 230,000 to 280,000. The novel Wave, by Eric Walters, talks about the damage that Tsunami caused, and the destruction