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?
