Q4 Blog 5

"The Host"
Stephenie Meyer

Through pg 438

So far...
Wanda found two "tortured bodies" that the Doc has been trying to extract souls from human bodies to free the humans. Wanda freeked out and basicaly paralized mel and made her dissapear. It took Jared to make Wanda feel so overwelmed that it shocked wanda back into existance.

"I think Ian likes you to much."(361) This was when Ian first started to like Wanda and he acted very courteous and gentlemen like towards Wanda doing everything he could to make her feel for comfortable. Mel Loves Jared very much but cant even stand it when he touches her because Wanda is in control of the body and Melanie gets jealous. So when Ian seems to be getting close Wanda does not realize the feelings and that Ian is showing her as well as Mel does. She feels that it is wrong for Ian to pursue Wanda in Mel's body even though Wanda "is" in control of. Of course later on this causes a lot of drama and confusion.

"... I had never intentional caused anyone physical pain, but i had hurt Ian deeply enough just by hurting myself."(422) This helps develop Wanda's character a little more because at first in the book i saw that Wanda didn't really like inflicting pain or see it. But when she saw the two mangled bodies she flipped and did more than just freak out. Now we got a better understanding of how severely she hates the infliction of pain on another being. Although she is very against causing physical pain she also dislikes hurting someone mentally as well because she feels terrible and can barely live with hurting other in any way.