Independent reading-Characters

The main characters in the book The Host is Wanda and Melanie Strider. In the beginning Wanda is very loyal to her species and has no sympathy for the humans. As Wanda begins to interact with Melanie through memories and thoughts, she starts to see the world by a humans perspective. Wanda then decided to go to where the rest of the humans are and turn against her species so that she can help Melanie. This is really revealing of Wanda's character. In the beginning of the book I didnt really like Wanda because I sympathized with the humans and Wanda was against humans. Wanda is a dynamic and round character because she is a fully developed character who changes throughout the book. Melanie in the beginning of the book despises the aliens and is loyal only to her family. As she gets to know Wanda she starts to like Wanda. Even though Melanie was always taught to hate aliens, she loves Wanda because she did great things for her. Melanie shows that she can judge someone by their personality and not what they are. The characters really learned who they really are when they got put in difficult situations. When Wanda saved Kyle's life even though he tried to kill her, showed she is genuinely a good person. The author revealed the characters personalities by the actions they do and their interactions with other characters.