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Quotes Page Respond, Analyze, Evaluate “ You know how you can tell when you’re getting close to one? The smell you can smell a town from miles away. It smells like smoke and raw sewage and death.” (39) 39 ® While you read this quote you can imagine the polluted city and the dead bodies around the city.(A) Cassie prefers the countryside than the urban side, and explains why dislikes one over the other.(E) The imagery shows you how dreadful the place is. She shows why she dislikes the urban area and prefers countryside. “Not to kill us, though killing us -or most of us- is necessary. They’re like a landlord who kicks out a deadbeat renter so he can get the house cleaned up for the new tenant; I think this has always been about getting the place ready.” (71) 71 ® The dad is scared and knows that the aliens will come for whatever is …show more content…

(1) 1 ® The author uses this simile in the beginning comparing “others” as the invaders in the book.He shows how we are so behind from the invaders, but not as we are dumb, but we are just behind. (A) He shows that the invaders made the humans look vulnerable and outsmarted us.(E) The simile compares a dumb dog to the dumbest dog, but comparing it to a smart dogs make the human sound dumb. “ We walked around like zombies, blank-faced and robotic, unable to absorb the magnitude of what was happening”. (236) 236 ® IThe author used imagery, you can picture the people walking around like zombies, and visualizing the blank and robotic faces.(A)The simile pictures the civilization for when the aliens were arriving. (E) From the simile it shows that the people were blank and didn’t know what to do from their expressions.They were in shock from disbelief of what was happening, they were unprepared. “ Maybe that will be the 5th wave, attacking us from the inside, turning our minds into weapons. “ (

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