[11/18][附件]The Host （宿主英文版）
中文版 在这 http://www.xyhc.com/viewthread.php?tid=985151The Host is a science fiction/romance novel by Stephenie Meyer.The novel introduces an alien race, called souls, who take over Earthand its inhabitants. The book describes one soul's predicament when themind of its human host refuses to cooperate with her takeover. The Host was released on May 6, 2008
with an initial print run of 750,000 copies.However, an international version of the novel was released on April 2,2008 in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Indonesia, the Philippines,Australia, and Hong Kong by the UK publishing division. It wastranslated into Dutch, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanishand Hebrew among others. The prologue and the fourth chapter of the book can be found on Meyer's official website.
Melanie "Mel" Stryder is one of few "wild" humans - rebels who haveevaded the alien souls that have taken over the Earth. With her youngerbrother Jamie and the man she loves, Jared Howe, Mel is on the run fromaliens, called souls, who hunt down humans in order to use their bodiesas hosts. Souls are creatures that rely upon host bodies to survive.After "insertion" into a human body, they erase the human occupant andestablish a claim over the body and mind. Wanderer is a soul who haslived on eight different planets previously, with Mel being her ninthhost body. Upon waking inside her new body, Wanderer is shocked by thepower and vividness of human emotions, memories, and senses, andquickly learns that Melanie is not willing to give up the entirety ofher mind.
The Seeker, who is in charge of Melanie's body, starts to worryabout Wanderer's apparent lack of control over Melanie's mind. Wandereris bombarded with Melanie's memories and her powerful yearning forJared and Jamie, and soon finds herself feeling strong love forMelanie's former companions. She becomes desperate to find out whetherthey are still alive. On a road trip to Tucson,Melanie remembers her Uncle Jeb telling her about a secret hideaway heonce made, and which Jared is aware of. Wanderer sets out to find thehideaway, with a vague sketch of the path from Melanie's memories, andis found by Jeb on the verge of death. She is taken to the hideaway, acomplex of caves in which a group of rebel humans live, but is treatedspitefully as they consider Wanderer a parasite in Melanie's body. Manyof the humans believe she should be put to death and attempts are madeon her life, most notably by Kyle O'Shea, despite the protectionprovided her by some of the humans, including Ian, Jeb, and Jared (whoexperiences powerful, conflicting emotions towards his alien-possessedlover). Over time, Wanderer, now becoming known as "Wanda", becomes apart of the group's routine by working, eating, and becoming anunofficial history teacher by telling stories after evening meals abouther experiences in former hosts on other planets occupied by the souls.During this time, Ian, Jamie, and many other humans befriend Wanda. TheSeeker, still not convinced that Wanderer was killed in the desert,returns in a helicopter, but is unable to find the caves. Kyle tries tokill Wanda by throwing her into a boiling hot, underground river. Dueto Wanderer's vigorous defense, he is unsuccessful and is about to fallinto the river himself when his intended victim saves him. A tribunalis held and it is decided that Kyle is allowed to stay, though many ofWanda's friends are upset about this decision, particularly Ian, whobelieves that Kyle deserves to die after his plot to kill Wanda.Meanwhile, Ian begins to fall in love with Wanda. After discoveringthis, she is confused with her own feelings since she has been deeplyinfected by Mel's love for Jared.
The humans realize that Wanda can be of use to them as a raider,because she is trusted by other souls. Following a raid in which theSeeker is caught, Wanda decides to reveal her biggest secret: how toremove a soul without killing either the human or the soul, a procedurethat Doc had been attempting unsuccessfully. She promises to teach Docunder two conditions: first, they must send the souls to new planetswithout harming them, and second, Doc must remove Wanda's soul fromMelanie's body and bury Wanda, because "she does not want to be aparasite any longer". Wanda successfully removes The Seeker and sendsher to another planet, and the body the Seeker was in is revived. Wandathen teaches Doc how to take out the souls himself.
Ian is enraged at the idea of Wanda ending her life so that Jaredcan have Melanie back. He forcibly takes her to his cave, where sherealizes that she loves him, but sneaks away from him after he fallsasleep. She has Doc remove her from Melanie's body, believing that shewill die thereafter, according to their agreement. However, she awakensin a new human body whose original owner was possessed as an infant andtherefore has no suppressed human personality, and it is revealed thatJared and Ian forcibly prevented Doc from carrying out the agreementand that most of the humans want her to stay as one of them. The bookends with the rebels discovering another group of humans who also havea soul among them. This discovery suggests that humanity and soulstogether may still have hope for the future.
The worlds mentioned in the book are the Vulture World, the DragonPlanet, the Summer World, the planet of the Flowers, the Singing World(Vampire Bats), the Monkey Spiders, the Fire World, the world of theSea Weeds, the Dolphins, the Mists Planet, the Panda Bear World, theOrigion, and of course, Earth.
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