Community Quotes in The Host

These small interactions help initiate Wanda into human lifestyle (maybe by regressing to her pre-teen years). They start treating her as they would a friend, not as an alien inhabiting a human's body.

Wanda feels like part of the community when Walter stands up for her. Not for Melanie, her human host, but for her, no matter what species she is.

Notice that there's no class system in the cave-dwelling human community. Well, there's Jeb, then there's everyone else.