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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The Host <3
1.) Jamie tagged along for the tour and soon everyone was walking beside Melanie(it/Wanderer).

2.) Uncle Jeb lead Wanderer to the hospital wing.

3.) She thought that he did it so they could test on her while Jared was gone.

4.) The tour was finished and Jeb left Jamie in charge of body guarding Wanderer(Melanie).

5.) Jamie began to ask questions about souls' previous worlds.

6.) They named the soul inside Melanie's body Wanda, short for Wanderer.


  • Does he(Jared) think that the Seeker will continue to look for Melanie?
  • Why did she lie about the Seeker?
  • Why did they wait to be nice to Wanderer when Jared left?
  • Why did Wanderer wan to be far away from men?
  • Why did the souls take away human medicine when they arrived on earth?
  • Why did Wanderer talk to Jamie more than everyone else?

camaraderie (noun) - a spirit of friendly good-fellowship (pg#177)

wilt (noun) - a disorder (as a fungus disease) of plants marked by loss of turgidity in soft tissues with subsequent drooping and often shriveling (pg#192)

forlornly (adj) - sad and lonely because of isolation or desertion (pg#192)

vertigo (noun) - a dizzy confused state of mind (pg#195)

silo (noun) - a trench, pit, or especially a tall cylinder (as of wood or concrete) usually sealed to exclude air and used for making and storing silage (pg#195)

noxiously (adj) - physically harmful or destructive to living beings (pg#201)

nefarious (adj) - flagrantly wicked or impious (pg#202)
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The Host. <3
1.) The Seekers stopped looking for Melanie.

2.) One extra Seeker was looking for Melanie on its own, retracing her last steps.


3.) Jared finally talks to Melanie for the first time since she got back.

4.) Jared was debating whether or not to kill it(Melanie).

5.) With Jared and the other males gone, Uncle Jeb gave Melanie a tour of the entire community(cave).

  • Are souls stronger than humans?


  • Why was Jared treating Melanie like his prisoner?


  • Was this a way he thought he could get her back?


  • Why did Jared break Kyles nose?

Jared was like a silent wall between me and everything else in the world, good or bad." - Simile (pg#175)

unfathomable (adj) - impossible to comprehend (pg#159)


stalactites (noun) - a deposit of calcium carbonate (as calcite) resembling an icicle hanging from the roof or sides of a cave (pg#159)


callous (adj) - feeling or showing no sympathy for others (pg#165)


acquiescence (noun) - the state of being acquiescent (pg#165)
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Monday, February 9, 2009
The Host. . .
1.) Jamie comes to visit Melanie for the first time.

2.) Jamie had just turned fourteen and had a very deep voice.

3.) He wanted to speak to Melanie for the first time since she was captured.

4.) Jared doesn't want Jamie seeing Melanie, his older sister.

5.) Jared took Melanie for a walk through the caves but he did not show her the right way.

  • How long was Melanie captured for?


  • Why doesn't Jared want Melanie seeing for talking to Jamie?


  • Why did he not hold her hand in the dark caves tunnel?


  • Do souls have special powers?

atrocities (noun) - the quality or state of being extremely wicked, brutal, or cruel (pg#141)

malevolent (adj) - having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred (pg#141)

macabre (adj) - tending to produce horror in a beholder (pg#147)

"If I asked you to shot it right now, would you do it?" - Foreshadowing (pg#169)
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The Host. .
1.) Uncle Jeb was not alone.

2.) He led Melanie to a group of eight male humans.

3.) Each group member was armed with a weapon, basically ready to kill Melanie.

4.) Jeb led Melanie back to his home where there was at least twenty seven wild humans living there also.

5.) Each human looked so barbaric.


  • Did they dream Uncle Jeb's appearance?

  • Why were the men armed?

  • Were they planning to kill Melanie?

  • How was Melanie going to convince them that she was still "human"?

insidious (adj) - harmful but enticing (pg#126)

discordant (adj) - disagreeing (pg#128)

incongruous (adj) - not conforming (pg#138)
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Host. ..=]
1.) The last night at the shack Melanie had eaten the last Twinkie.

2.) Melanie's body began to shake so tremendously that they thought that they were going to die.

3.) Melanie found Uncle Jeb!

4.) Uncle Jeb left them and they entered a deep sleep.

5.) Uncle Jeb found them just as they were about to die.

  • Were the Twinkies still goo after all these years?
  • How was she going to survive out there with out food or water?
  • Do souls live forever?
  • How had he survived so long away from civilization?

"My muscles screamed out to me for mercy." - Personification (pg#113)

"All the muscles in my body rioted cramping and spasming as they fought death." - Personification (pg#115)

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The Host. ..=
1.) Melanie finally convinces Wanderer to go look for her family in the desert.

2.) The bleach residue keeps the water from growing anything dangerous.

3.) Melanie found a small shack.

4.) She thinks that the shack once belonged to wild humans hiding in the desert.

5.) She'd eaten the last Twinkies for breakfast.

  • How does she know that her crazy Uncle Jeb, Jared and Jamie are still alive?
  • How will she read the map if she does not know where it begins?
  • How much further can they go if her body is beginning to get dehydrated?
  • Why is she drinking bleach?

"As soon as the hunger fangs had eased slightly..." Metaphor (pg#109)

"Melanie's impatience began to leak into her thoughts." (pg#109)
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The Host. ..
1.) Melanie's seeker is getting both Melanie and Wanderer upset.

2.) The Risks are too high for adult hosts so they are no longer offering them.

3.) Melanie and Jared are(were) in love.

4.) Melanie was just seventeen when she and Jared(26) met.

5.) They are the last living men and women on earth.

  • How do hosts take over souls?
  • Which species is stronger souls. wild humans or hosts?
  • How do they know that there aren't other wild humans like themselves?
  • Where did Melanie find the map?

sacrosanct (adj) - most sacred or holy (pg#64)

repugnant (adj) - incompatible (pg#65)
Slid down the rainbow at 9:21 PM 0 comments
The Host.

1.) Wanderer thinks that she is too weak for this world because her host is still present.

2.) Melanie provoked(asked) Wanderer to kill her, but it didn't work.

3.) Wanderer talks to her healer about the things she has been seeing.

4.) Her Seeker suggests that she think about getting a new host.

5.) Wanderer doesn't want to become a skipper.

  • Is Wanderer going to leave her host?
  • How is Melanie keeping secrets from Wanderer?
  • How is Melanie still so involved in Wanderer's life?
  • Is she still alive?

"Slap, slap, slap against the concrete." - Onomatopoeia (pg#52)

nonentity (noun) - of little significance (pg#48)

afield (adv or adj) -away from home or out of the way (pg#51)

fervent (adj) - marked by great intensity of feeling (pg#51)

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Sunday, February 1, 2009
The Host.

1.) Her hosts name was Melanie Stryder.

2.) She was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico

3.) Wanderer dreams about her host(Melanie's) life.

4.) Melanie has a younger brother named Jamie.

5.) In the dream, Melanie meets a man named Jared who is still a wild human.

  • Is it a dream or a memory from Melanie's life?
  • Why does Wanderer tell her healer about the dreams that she has been having?
  • How is Melanie still controlling Wanderer?
  • Why isn't she dead?

assuage (verb) - to lessen the intensity of (pg#43)

pliant (adjective) - easily influenced (pg#48)
Slid down the rainbow at 10:05 PM 0 comments
The Host
1. The Healers name was Fords Deep Waters.
2. She has lived on seven planets.
3. She's never lived two terms as the same species.
4. She has been almost everything, a flower, bat, bear, spider, sea weed and even a dragon.
5. She started on planet Origin.

• What is a host?
• What is the "Origin"?
• What species is her new host?
• What is the females' name?

perilous(adjective) - full of pervil (pg#23)
rendezvous (noun) - an appointed meeting (pg#29)
Slid down the rainbow at 10:03 PM 0 comments
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