How can someone absolutely hate an idea while another person loves and completely believes in the same exact idea? This happens the same way people decide which party they will be for politics. Everyone creates their own opinion. In The Host love and hate are both very present once Wanda is with the underground community of humans, and all of the different humans have many different emotions towards the situation.
It's important for everyone to have their own opinion, because otherwise we would only look at things from one point of view, which isn't the right thing to do, and it's very boring. Everyone involved in the underground community has their own point of view on what happened with Kyle and Wanda. Even though they all know that Kyle tried to kill Wanda, some of them think that it was for the best and it would have been better if he succeeded. Others think that Kyle should be killed for it to follow the rules. That's why they went to "court" to see which opinion was the majority.
In a way I'm glad they went to their court to decide how to deal with the situation, because it really brought out everyones' opinions. I'm not sure if I agree on what they decided or not, but I think that it's probably best if a human doesn't have to die because of something they did to Wanda. There are many different ways to look at the situation and it would be wrong to dismiss Wanda's point of view, because she didn't do anything wrong. This is why it is very important to look at situations from every point of view and never to decide anything before you have done so.
This is my second response and it's for the book The Host.
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