
Before the waves hit, she had a crush on Ben Parish, a popular football player. He is described as being a tall boy, at least eighteen or nineteen years old, being very muscular with chocolate-brown hair.Ĭassiopeia Marie Sullivan or “Cassie” – the novel’s protagonist, is 16 years old, short, and has curly strawberry-blonde hair.

Cassie soon finds out that Evan is actually an Other and not truly human. He saves Cassie after she is shot by an Other sniper, the “Silencer”. Cassie chose to stay behind with Evan so that they could work together and remove the bomb. She then realized that Ben didn’t kill Megan after all and chose to try and get the bomb removed with her still alive. Rick Yancey says in one of his interviews with Entertainment Weekly that he will address the question of if Evan survived in his sequel, The Infinite Sea. It’s in his crazy-and majorly selfless-plan to rescue his young friend that we see that the old Ben Parish isn’t really dead after all.Īt the end of The 5th Wave, it is clear Evan survives. Zombie feels a special connection with the five-year-old, who happens to be the same age as his dead sister. The story follows 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan as she tries to survive in a world devastated by waves of alien invasions that decimated the Earth’s population. How old are the characters in The 5th Wave?

How old is Evan supposed to be in The 5th Wave?.

