

106) Ben knows he can’t argue with him because what Chris says is true, I mean Ben even says “Head, hand, feet, back, stomach, legs, arms, chest-everything hurts. Such as his tent mate, and friend, Chris “Dude, I think you’re dying,” (Chris pg. Ben knows he is dying and he doesn’t need to be told that, but people continue to remind him. The 3rd wave is the Avian bird flu, except the Others modified in making it unstoppable. The next time we hear more about Ben is from himself, except now he goes by Zombie, the reason for him being called that is because he is slowly being taken out by the 3rd wave. In the movie Cassie says that when her dad came to take her home that was the last time she ever saw Ben Parish, and that he is probably dead just like the rest of the people in that room. Cassie’s dad then came so she told Lizbeth that she would call her when the phones began to work again, of course the power never would come back on. 35) It was shown there that Cassie had a crush on Ben before the Others came, but he was unaware of her feelings, it also showed that Ben was a very caring big brother.Ĭassie’s friend Lizbeth Morgan tried to convince Cassie to tell Ben of her feelings, but Cassie of course said she wasn’t going to do that. He barely knew I existed.” (Cassie pg.16) She also said that Ben had a little sister, she said, “his little sister was on the sidelines at every game, and when we took district title, Ben ran straight to the sidelines hoisted her on his shoulders, and led the parade around the track with her waving to the crowd like a homecoming queen. While explaining everything in her backpack, she comes across her plastic bag of photo’s, she even says this about one of her photograph’s, “One of Ben You-Were-Some-Kind-of-Serious-Gorgeous Parish, clipped from my yearbook, because Ben was my future boyfriend and/or husband –not that he knew it. Anyway Cassie tells us in the book that he was on the football team and that he had a killer smile, and that she would rather not talk about it.

The first we hear of him is through Cassiopeia Marie Sullivan, or more commonly known as Cassie.

It is said that he is 6 inches taller than Cassie and four inches taller than Ringer. Benjamin Thomas Parish is seventeen years old, has brown hair, and is very tall.
