Name : Hoh Tjin Li
Class : S4A
School Num. : 08160
Book Call Num. : F MEY C2
Book Title : The host
Author : Stephenie Meyer
Publication Year/ (Edition) : 2008
SETTING
The idea for The Host originated on a trip from Phoenix to Salt Lake City. Filled with boredom, the author made up stories to entertain herself, and was halfway through outlining the story of The Host in her head before realizing what she had created. She notes that the story grabbed her attention, and that she "could tell there was something compelling in the idea of such a complicated triangle." Originally meant to be a side project, The Host eventually became a priority.
Characters
Wanderer/Wanda
She is actually a silver blob with antennae but she currently occupies Melanie's body. Wanda is very kind and sees herself falling in love with Melanie's loves: her brother Jamie and her romance love Jared. Wanda is kind and very selfless. She receives happiness from making others happy. She never looks to help herself but what she can do to help others.
Jared
Jared is Melanie's love. He shows great signs of leadership as he is in charge of the raids that go on for food. He is very reluctant to become friends with Wanda/Melanie because he doesn't feels it's possible.
Melanie
She has a temper and may be considered volatile compared to docile Wanderer. Melanie is passionately in love with another human, Jared Howe, and shares a strong mother-like bond with her younger brother, Jamie. She grows to care for Wanderer deeply as a sister, as well. Melanie is described as pretty, tall and athletic with long brown hair, hazel eyes and tan skin.



Conflict
The main conflict was that the alien was invading the human's body. The person who used to control it still had part of her mind; she was a fighter. This conflict was solved when the alien fell in love with someone the human didn't love, when they used the alien to help and she found she could be useful to the hiding group of people. Besides, they took the alien out of the human's body and put her in another body.
Conclusion
Wanda has Doc remove her from Melanie's body, believing that she will die there after, according to their agreement. However, she awakens in a new human body whose original owner was possessed as a baby and therefore has no suppressed human personality, and it is revealed that Jared and Ian forcibly prevented Doc from carrying out the agreement and that most of the humans want her to stay as one of them. This book ends with the rebels discovering another group of humans who also have a soul among them. This discovery suggests that humanity and souls together may still have hope for the future.
Opinion
I don’t know if it’s fair to compare this book to Twilight because they are not even the same genre. However, I think I pick up this book because of my enjoyment of Twilight.It was an interesting story. I think it was an amazing thing to combine the alien and the human in one body so we can get the perspective of both from the same experiences. It was fascinating to see how they could view the same thing so differently. Overall it was a captivating story and it surpassed even my high expectations.