The plot of Stephenie Meyer’s The Host is often described as a love triangle, that both Melanie and Wanda are in love with Jared. How much do you agree with this? Are Wanda’s feelings for Jared really love? How much of what Wanda feels is an echo of Melanie’s feelings?
Categories: fiction
Tagged: book discussion, Jared, Melanie, Stephenie Meyer, The Host, Wanda
As you read The Host, what does the story reveal about Wanda?
On page 105, Wanda thinks:
“Why did I no longer belong to the society of souls? Why did I feel like I didn’t… like I didn’t want to belong? Had I ever really been a part of the community that was meant to be my own, or was that the reason behind my long line of lives lived in transience? Had I always been an aberration, or was this something Melanie was making me into? Had this planet changed me, or revealed me for what I already was?”
How much of the doubt that Wanda experiences is influenced by her relationship with Melanie, who reminds her of the parasitic nature of their relationship day after day by not quietly acquiescing to Wanda’s control?
If you’ve already finished the book, would you say that living among the humans changes Wanda? Or does it simply make it possible for her to see the type of creature she really is? Do you think Wanda could ever experience the same changes if she’d stayed within the souls’ community?
Categories: fiction
Tagged: book discussion, Stephenie Meyer, The Host
