Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The Host (2nd Section)

As the souls in the story spend more time in their human hosts, they are gradually becoming influenced by the human emotions. Souls are experiencing feelings that are uncommon to them like love, anger, and even dislike (borderline hate). The seekers (the souls that find hosts for the rest of their kind to be inserted into) have even become a sort of militia on Earth; hunting and killing humans, the seekers have gone against their original benevolent behavior. It seems like the souls will eventually become just like the humans they eliminated, who were “unappreciative” of beautiful Earth. Even though these emotions go against the nature of the souls, they enjoy them more than simply being tranquil.

If the souls both like and perform human emotions/tendencies do they really have the right to annihilate the human race? Can they still say they are the better kinder species?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

NOPE.

i was just thinking how conceited the people who write these kinds of books must be. this one and other books i've read where people try to take over the earth or try to control human minds and bodies all have the same theme: like, omg, humans are like so freakin awesome that if aliens invaded the planet we wouldnt even have to like fight we could just like cry or something and they'd be overwhelmed with emotions. being able to cry and love and all that arent always all that. im sure that if aliens were really bent on taking over earth, after they went through all that trouble they wouldnt be discouraged just cuz someone cried.