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Book Review: The 5th Wave And Never Let Me Go

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The 5th Wave and Never Let Me Go Comparative Essay Introduction: Thesis Statement: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro uses character, conflict and form to emphasize that one’s thoughts and behaviour are influenced towards a trajectory of their fate. Main Idea #1: Character -In The 5th Wave the protagonist, Cassie, reacted completely different when she was faced with a life changing conflict since she did everything in her power to protect herself along with her brother. In Never Let Me Go Kathy, Ruth and Tommy did not do anything to protect themselves when they were told about being clones. Supporting Details - “The corporal cut me off. ‘Only the boy.’ ‘She’s his sister,’ Dad tried. He was being reasonable. ‘And she’s a child too. She’s only sixteen.’ ‘She will have …show more content…

None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars. And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planning the other day. Your lives are set out for you. You'll become adults, then before you're old, before you're even middle-aged, you'll start to donate your vital organs. That's what each of you was created to do. You're not like the actors you watch on your videos, you're not even like me. You were brought into this world for a purpose, and your futures, all of them, have been decided. So you're not to talk that way any more. You'll be leaving Hailsham before long, and it's not so far off, the day you'll be preparing for your first donations. You need to remember that. If you're to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.” ” (81) (Never Let Me Go) -In Never Let Me Go and The 5th Wave have many similarities since the characters in both of the novels have an over controlling leader which leads the character in both novels to face fate but in The 5th Wave the characters decide to change their

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