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1. What is the literary genre of The 5th Wave? Where does the novel open? How is the setting described?

The 5th Wave is a young adult supernatural thriller by Rick Yancey. Cassie Sullivan is a 16-year-old survivor of the alien apocalypse, living alone in a tent in Ohio when the novel opens. The setting is isolated and bleak, and Cassie wonders if she is the last human being left alive.

2. Who is the narrator in Part I: “The Last Historian”? What information is related to the reader in the first chapters of the story?

Cassie Sullivan narrates Part I: “The Last Historian.” In the first chapters, Cassie relates through exposition the history of this alien race, which has the power to look and sound human. Cassie’s father, Mr. Sullivan, died because he trusted some of “the Others.”

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