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souls inhabit the same physical body. The novel enhances the relation between Wanderer and Melanie in a beautiful way; how the two species interact and
actually motivate to help each other although they have so many differences. Another review is from Booklist signifies about the pretty mixture
tale about the humanity issues in the novel. Meyer’s ingenious adult-market debut, heavily but not tediously
indebted to Invasion of the Body-snatchers, imagines the tangled web of attachments between an alien parasite and the colony of humans to
which the alien’s host body once belonged. Meyer boldly chooses to narrate from the perspective of the invading alien, a 1,000-year-old
female “soul” named Wanderer, and it is a tribute to the author’s skill that Wanderer is a sympathetic protagonist despite the fact that she
tells her tale while clinging to the cerebellum of a human victim, 17- year-old Melanie.
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According to the quotation above, Meyer makes a significant debut of the alien story for adult readers. Wanderer as the main character and a protagonist
describe as kind soul although she posses Melanie’s body. The uniqueness of main character provokes the
readers’ curiosity to explore her journey in the novel.
Criticisms about Meyer’s character also come from undergraduate thesis by Nurvita Wijayanti a scholar from Sanata Dharma University that
uses Twillight novel by Stephen ie Meyer. She stated that “Meyer can describe
every character commonly and does not give excessive” 2011: 6. Meyer creates character with ordinary description that is perceptible by the readers.
Thus, character in Meyer’s work portrays a conventional view of individual type that is easy to understand.
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Regarding the criticisms mentioned before, the writer can highlight several important points. First, the story in The Host is amusing to explore
because it is a balance mixture of emotion and action. Second, Meyer presents Wanderer, the main character as a unique figure because she is an alien or a
soul. Third, those criticisms and reviews help the writer analyze The Host. Although the writer agrees with the criticisms above, the writer has different
opinion about in this study. The writer chooses the motivation of Wanderer as the topic by observing her character and her conflicts.