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Chapter 1
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The 5th Wave, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Trust and Belief
Survival and Perseverance
Warfare and Dehumanization
Family
Summary
Analysis
Cassie wonders if she’s the last human on earth or even the universe, even though she knows it’s probably not true. She tries to remember what life was like before the Arrival of the Others, back when she was 12 and was just a normal girl. Now, in the present, Cassie has to kill sometimes to survive.
