The 5th Wave Chapter 52 Summary

  • Graduation ceremony. Zombie's feeling melancholy. He knows all his fellow child soldiers are only there because they metaphorically killed their childhoods.
  • Zombie thinks he's been carrying his dead former self, Ben Parish, inside him all through training. (Gross.) Now Ben Parish is finally burning away.
  • Zombie stares at Vosch in silent admiration. They're both all about vengeance against the aliens, now.