Predator vs Parasite

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The characteristic's of a predator is to hunt to kill a prey and/or feed on it but not necessarily feed on the prey, and the characteristic's of a Parasite it lives off a host which isn't considered a prey since the host isn't killed for example: A flea's host is a dog since it lives off of it. From the graphic novel Jenifer she lives off a man named Jim(Host) but if she was a predator she would of killed Jim and for another example Jenifer didn't eat the wife simply because she didn't want anything to interfere with her feeding off him because if she did kill the wife Jim would of left her or have gotten rid of her so she keeps his wife alive but bites her so she would leave Jim therefor allowing nothing to interfere with Jenifer's eating.

 
Parasites characteristically don't kill it's host they just move to another host when the host dies and uses the host to eat or get what it wants such as in Jenifer's where she uses Jim to eat people.  We see Jenifer act as a parasite when she eats the cat and the detective Jim seeks help from only to find him in the fridge . The artist emphasizes her parasitic nature through using situations such as her eating the cat and biting the wife to get her to leave and at the end the artist shows how she switches to another host after Jim gets shot in the woods which is the same way how the man in the beginning died . Clearly, Jenifer is using Jim as a host to eat people  and then switches hosts when Jim dies which is a parasitic trait and not a predator trait as in concluding to the argument parasite vs predator Jenifer is a parasite.