Chapter 3:
"Not strong enough. Would they think me weak as well? Was I weak, that I could not force this mind to answer my questions? Weaker still, because her living thoughts had existed in my head where there should be nothing but memory? I'd always thought of myself as strong. This idea of weakness made me flinch. Made me feel shame." Why should Wanderer feel weak because Melanie is still with her? What make the souls the better species? This is a recurring thought of mine. Does this theme sound familiar to you? One species/race/religion/party thinks they are better than another species/race/religion/party. They try to force their beliefs on the other, thinking that they are right and the "lesser" of the two is wrong, so they should be converted. Disgusting.
"My name was now Wanderer, yet her memories fit it just as well as my own. Except that my wandering was by choice. These flashes of memory were always tinged with the fear of the hunted. Not wandering, but running." Wanderer got her name because she has lived on a bunch of different planets. She would stay there until her host body died, then move to a different place. She gave a lot of thought into where she would go next. She chose to move. Melanie, on the other hand, was also moving because she didn't want to be "tainted" by a soul. She was forced to. Melanie never stayed in the same place for a long time. Throughout this book, you get to see all the similarities/differences between the two.
Chapter 4:
"...but because she protected him more fiercely than other secrets I'd unraveled." Wanderer is talking about how Melanie is extremely protective of Jamie, her brother. The scene before was the first time we found out about Jamie. Melanie's relationship with him reminds me of Katniss' relationship with Prim.
Chapter 5:
"A Healer? You want me to skip?" "No one would think badly of that choice, Wanderer. It's understood, if a host is defective--" "Defective? She's not defective. I am. I'm too weak for this world!" Again I ask, why is it such a bad thing that Melanie is still present in Wanderer's mind?
"...I had not skipped out on the life term of my host. To do so was wasteful, wrong, ungrateful. It mocked the very essence of who we were as souls. We made our worlds better places; that was absolutely essential or we did not deserve them." I mentioned before that Wanderer always stayed with her host until the host died. The main reason why I liked this quote when she said that the souls made the worlds they visited better places. The next paragraph talks about why the souls came to Earth to begin with, how humans were "brutish and ungovernable." All the killings and wars. Part of me wants to say that the souls were right in coming to Earth, but at the same time, being a human myself, I understand why Melanie ran. Just because you don't agree with someone, doesn't mean you have to take control of them.
Before I continue on to my next quote, can I just say that I hate the Seeker? She is in the same group as Snow and Umbridge.
Chapter 8:
"It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming. Souls were sociable. We lived and worked and grew together in harmony. We were all the same: peaceful, friendly, honest. Why should I feel better away from my kind? Was it Melanie who made me this way?" I like Wanderer here. Compare her to the Seeker: the Seeker wants to rid the Earth of humans through whatever means possible, because when one exits, a soul dies, and a soul is obviously more important. Wanderer is more sympathetic. That could just be because of Melanie, but even in the beginning I think Wanderer had a kinder heart than the Seeker. The Seeker doesn't seem peaceful, friendly, and honest to me.
When Jared talks about how he doesn't want to bring a child into their world, I think about Katniss and how she doesn't want to bring a child into the world where District children fight to the death.
---Amelia
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