Critique of Mainstream Modernity in Rick Yancey’s 5th Wave

Abstract

This research project utilizing the concept of post modernity efforts to comment upon cultural chaos and fragmentations created by modernity in the Rick Yancey’s novel The 5th Wave.Cassie and Sammy in The 5th Wave are deviated from their cultural root and individual identity.It unfolds post modernity as the subject matter in Yancey’s novel to critique logo centric attitude of modernity.Identities in the novel are super-unstable. The central protagonist asixteen-year-old Cassie Sullivan,is on a mission is to rescue her five-year-old brother, Sammy, from a military compound run by the Others.Yancey, presenting Cassie as a representative of females, portrays the change that are seen in the life style, attitude of people after they came into the contact of metropolitan big city. People valorize the modernity and run after it but still they are suffering from the chaos of it. It brings so much chaos, sufferings, and pains.Cassie and Sammy are doomed to face harmful consequences of modernity. Society is resulting in drug addiction, anxiety, fear, divorce, and family tussle. Key Words: Modernity, Post modernity, Centre, Totality, Fragmentations, Experimentation,