Cassie Sullivan was given her name by her father when they went on a field trip where he took her to a planetarium, that he also went to as a little kid. While there he saw the constellation Cassiopeia and became very interested in it and later named his daughter after it. Cassie is now a sixteen-year-old girl that now happens to be an orphan. She 's a very young girl that also happens to be falling in love with an alien. That usually isn 't very normal for a sixteen year old teenage girl.
Cassie is a sixteen-year-old girl that has no father or mother is an orphan, and also happens to be falling in love with an alien. On top of all of this sixteen year old cassie sullivan just happens to be residing in a post-apocalyptic world. To be all of this and still be alive means that cassie is a survivor and never quits, which helps the reader to connect with her very easy because who wouldn 't root for someone like that?
Cassie is almost everything you would expect from someone who has managed to live through an alien invasion without a father, mother or guardian to help guide her.
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The theme I thought was big in the 5th wave was that they played a lot of mind games with you, and the others or what they called the alien invaders are very much into mind games. First they would go out and disguise themselves as human beings, which would allow them to move into important military bases, bunkers and any place the thought would give them an advantage and eventually take them over. If they weren 't special enough they would lay low and gather important intell that they thought would be useful. Evan, cassie 's boyfriend is obviously into deception because he is also an alien but only decepts for a good cause, which is to keep cassie safe. Another character which really helps that theme of mind games is Cassie because she acts like someone she 's not, which was a young child so that she could sneak into the military base and help to save her brother which serves for the
Her survival, in my opinion, is the most important part of the book. This makes her the main protagonist
She is the whole reason he escaped in the first place, and he has nightmares about leaving her. The whole group though are motivated by each other and support each other in their toughest times. Cassia and Indie relied on many similar things to be able to survive the perilous trek. Cassia and Indie were able to bring many things from in the camp. They brought the packs and jackets that were given to them when they first arrived in the outer provinces.
She loved her family. In her time not equal meant nothing to her. Cassie doesn't judge people. Cassie is the second oldest out of the Logan kids. …..
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Overall, Cassie Logan matures throughout Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor while learning the importance of bravery and self respect, friendship and love, and last but not least, family. She learns standing up for what’s right is the best way to think, but not always the best thing to do. The knowledge that love can conquer all boundaries, and not accept life as it is, that you must keep fighting for what you believe if even if that fight must be silent, insinuates its way into Cassie’s brain and heart to the point that she understands by the end of the story. Cassie sees that people wish for the best for her, and she tries to follow their examples. All in all, Cassie become a better person through out Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by not accepting the way things were and being subtle as she could with trying to set off a serendipity to her race, but learning life is more complex than black and white.
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