The host -Stephanie Meyer first 4 chapters..help!?

Question

ok so i got the book and i am a little confused about the first 4 chapters.

Who is the narrator?What is going on?etc..

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Answer 1

try stephaniemeyer.com/the host its better

Answer 2

wanda or wonderer is the narrator. shes he soul that was put into melanies body. when the font changes its melanies old memories..

yahh,its a bit confusing at first.but pull through,it gets good.

Answer 3

Synopsis:

Meyer's brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading soul who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves-Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met. Wanderer and Melanie, now unwilling allies, set off to search for the man they both love.

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Chapter 1

Remembered

Summary:

Wanderer awakes within her new host body. At the beginning, she has some difficulty as she becomes accustomed her new body, showcased by her use of possessives. "Not the body. My body." She braces herself for the onslaught of the last memory the body would have lived through and the stronger emotions of humans than her other host species.

The memory begins with running, fleeing from Seekers. At the memory of the Seekers, Wanderer screams, something she had not done before. Her body explains to her it is just a scream and Wanderer freezes, shocked that her body was still thinking, speaking to her. But the memory again pulls her into its grasp. Ahead is an empty elevator shaft and Melanie runs directly towards it and jumps, preferring death to capture. However, the fall is not high enough and she is simply hurt badly, not killed.

Wanderer again pulls free of the memory, but one last image appears, something that Melanie remembered before she passed out from the fall, the face of a man. Wanderer considers him beautiful and the moment she realizes she wants to keep looking at him, the memory disappears and her body says, "Mine". Wanderer again is stunned and rebukes the thought by stating that everything is hers and there is no one else with her. However, she can't help but feel some doubts that there is something in her body with her that shouldn't exist.

Characters Present:

1. Wanderer

2. Melanie

Important Information Learned:

* Wanderer had not had a sense of smell in her past species

* Human emotions are much stronger than any of Wanderer's past species'

* Wanderer had never felt hatred before

* Fleeing from Seekers caused Melanie's near-death

* It isn't normal for the host's consciousness to linger after an insertion

* Melanie is still in her body with Wanderer

* There is a man important to Melanie whom she accidentally reveals to Wanderer

Memorable Quotes:

"I knew it would begin with the end, and the end would look like death to these eyes. I had been warned." ~Wanderer

"There is a way. No way to survive, but perhaps a way to win." ~Melanie

"Mine, spoke the alien thought that should not exist. [...] Mine, I rebuked her, the power and authority that belonged to me alone flowing through the word. Everything is mine." ~Wanderer

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Chapter 2

Overheard

Summary:

As Wanderer slowly acclimates to her new body, she overhears a conversation between Fords Deep Waters and the Seeker. She is surprised at their tone, their discussion sounding oddly like an argument. From their conversation, we learn the Seekers are looked down upon, as their profession requires certain degrees of violence. We also learn that Wanderer was chosen to be implanted inside Melanie because Melanie had been a rebel and the Seeker hoped to gain valuable information regarding the rebel movement.

Wanderer, meanwhile, considers their disagreement and thinks back to her last host species, ones who had lived rooted to the soil of a vast ocean with a "hundred arms and on each arm a thousand eyes". While she lived in that planet, rumors had circulated about Earth regarding fights between the Seekers and humans and hosts so strong they could manipulate and even force the souls to abandon them. Although she feels distaste for the Seeker's occupation, Wanderer is ready to help her and tries to reach the host's memory. However, she hits a strong wall and she believes she was inserted in a damaged host. This belief angers her, the emotion stunning her with its force.

Characters Present:

1. Wanderer

2. Fords Deep Waters

3. The Seeker

Important Information Learned:

* The Earth's occupation went badly awry

* Seekers were looked down at because they chose a Calling filled with violence

* Wanderer is unable to access certain parts of her host's mind

Memorable Quotes:

"We do not choose violence. We face it when we must. And it's a good thing for the rest of you that some of us are strong enough for the unpleasantness. Your peace would be shattered without our work." ~The Seeker

"But there were whispers of this: of human hosts so strong that the souls were forced to abandon them. Hosts whose minds could not be completely suppressed. Souls who took on the personality of the body, rather than the other way around. Stories. Wild rumors. Madness." ~Wanderer

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Chapter 3

Resisted

Summary:

Angry, Wanderer questions the Seeker and the Healer whether she was placed in a damaged host, as the mind didn't function correctly. However, when she explains memory is the only thing she could not access, the Seeker explains the host had been a rebel and was resisting Wanderer's control. Wanderer asks the Healer about any past cases with a resisting host and Fords narrates the events regarding a soul called Racing Song. He took on the name of his human host, Kevin, and continued the host's line of work. He complained of blackouts and numerous tests were run. Soon, it became obvious that the host was taking over for periods of time until the host attacked a Healer and tried to use a scalpel to cut out the soul. Kevin was relocated to another host and the host itself was disposed of. Wanderer is shocked, but the Seeker assures her that she would soon have full control. Wanderer tells her what she can: the host's name was Melanie Stryder, twenty years old and that she had been in Chicago looking for a cousin named Sharon. She had also left a note in the building where she was captured. As she spoke, she asked if they had found Sharon and Wanderer is horrified as she wasn't the one to formulate the question. Moreover, Melanie was to rendezvous with someone and she is too slow to block Wanderer's access. Wanderer learns she was to rendezvous with a man named Jared, the man whose face she had remembered before.

Characters Present:

1. Wanderer

2. Melanie

3. Fords Deep Waters

4. The Seeker

Important Information Learned:

* Resistant hosts are something new to the souls and became unsurprising on Earth

* Souls bind themselves to the brain through numerous attachments; the human mind requires eight-hundred twenty seven attachments

* Skipping refers to hosts who do not complete a life term, an action frowned upon by their society

Memorable Quotes:

"This host was part of the human resistance. Those humans who were aware of us before insertion are more difficult to subdue. This one still resists." ~The Seeker

"Jared is safe." ~Melanie speaking through Wanderer

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Chapter 4

Dreamed

Summary:

The chapter begins with a memory told from Melanie's point-of-view. She is raiding a house for food for herself and her younger brother, Jamie. She steals as much food as she can, but, when she tries to leave, she runs into a man walking in. They struggle, each believing the other to be a body-snatcher, until he realizes she is human. When he does, he kisses her. Melanie panics and knees him. While he is momentarily incapacitated, she flees. She proves faster than he is so he throws a rock at her to make her fall and stop. When he finally has her immobilized, he shows her he is still human by flashing a light in his eyes, but admits he does have a scar in the back of his neck, one self-inflicted in order to protect himself. He introduces himself as Jared Howe and tells Melanie he would follow her, as she was the only other human he'd met. He leaves to fetch his car, but before he does so, he kisses Melanie again. She feels the scar on his neck and screams in response.

Wanderer wakes up suddenly, revealing the memory to be a dream. Knowing she would not be able to sleep again, she e-mails the Seeker the new information she learned regarding the existence of Jamie. When she sends the e-mail, Melanie reacts in panic, speaking again as she had in the first few moments after Wanderer was inserted. Wanderer realizes she is becoming stronger and knows that she must visit her Comforter again.

Characters Present:

1. Wanderer

2. Melanie

3. Jared

Important Information Learned:

* Melanie has a brother, Jamie

* Jared scarred the back of his neck in order to live amongst the souls

* Melanie has been growing stronger and still has a barrier around her memories

Memorable Quotes:

"All the pressure of motherhood with none of the knowledge or the experience." ~Melanie

"How can I not trust another human? We're family--both part of the brotherhood of extinction." ~Melanie

"How did anyone survive this world, with these bodies whose memories wouldn't stay in the past where they should? With these emotions that were so strong I couldn't tell what I felt anymore." ~Wanderer

Answer 4

well first youre seeing the soul being inserted into melanies body.

then when she wakes up, its the soul speaking, but she is seeing melanies last memories.

then it is always narrarated by wanderer, the soul