The 5th Wave Introduction Summary

Intrusion: 1995

  • The year is 1995, and we're watching a sleeping woman. Well, technically the narrator is—the narrator's creepy like that.
  • She doesn't wake up, but she does feel a little uneasy the next day. She shakes it off.
  • She remembers her dream: a large owl watching her through the window.
  • Now there's a shadow over the sleeping woman and her husband. It's there for her unborn child, apparently. Yikes.
  • The shadow has withdrawn. Now there's an intruder inside the unborn child. We don't know what that is, but it doesn't sound good.
  • The intruder stays in the child, asleep, for many years after he's born.
  • Five years pass, and the woman and her child are at the zoo. She sees an owl and gets a big case of the willies.
  • Other people are having similar experiences all over the world. Sounds sinister.