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<h1>Gregor the Overlander Annotations</h1>
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<h2>Blurb:</h2>
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<blurb>When
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eleven-year-old Gregor<br/>follows his
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little sister through a grate in the<br/>laundry room of their New York
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apartment<br/>building, he hurtles into the dark Underland beneath
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the<br/>City. There, humans live uneasily beside giant spiders,<br/>bats,
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cockroaches, and rats -- but the fragile peace is about<br/>to fall
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apart.<br/>Gregor wants no part of a conflict. He just wants to<br/>find his
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way home. But when he discoveres that a prophecy<br/>foretells a role for
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him in the Underland's future, he realizes<br/>it might be the only way to
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solve the biggest mystery of his<br/>life. Little does he know his quest
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will change him -- and<br/>the Underland -- forever<br/><hr/></blurb>
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<h2>Part 1: The Fall</h2>
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<h3>Chapter 1:</h3>
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<table>
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<td>Page </td>
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<td>Comment</td>
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</tr>
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<td>Page 1</td>
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<td>Suzanne Collins uses an extended metaphour of Gregor being a caveman
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here. Could this allude to how he sees the Underlanders as prehistoric and
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is embarrased by Vikus later on? Or perhaps just his teenage instinctual
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actions?</td>
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<td>Page 2</td>
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<td>Gregor is repulsed by rats - foreshadowing at the Gnawers being the
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main antagonists</td>
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<td>Page 4, Line 9</td>
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<td>"Golden Glow" - Aliteration</td>
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<td>Page 6</td>
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<td>Foreshadowing to Gregor falling down the laundry shoot, and how he is
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later in the series exited to go to the underland</td>
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<td>Page 7, Line 2</td>
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<td>Is this a JoJo's reference?</td>
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<td>Page 9, Line 6</td>
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<td>This metaphour of music taking him to "Another world altogether" is
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foreshadowing of The Underland</td>
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<tr>
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<td>Page 10-11</td>
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<td>Gregor and Luxa both deal with missing/dead parents in the same way by
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being strict on themselves and not allowing themselves to be happy</td>
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<td>Page 12, Line 6</td>
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<td>Cliffhanger ending</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<h3>Chapter 2:</h3>
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<table>
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<tr>
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<td>Page </td>
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<td>Comment</td>
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<td>Page 16, Line 7</td>
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<td>Gregor falls for longer than 70 seconds, as we see he counts 70
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seconds. If we assume Gregor's weight at 50kg, as is is said to be quite light
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and the density of air is 1.225 kg/m<sup>3</sup>, we also know his clothes
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are "ballooned" so he is likely falling vertically so his cross sectional
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surface area would be about 0.1 m<sup>2</sup>, we know he has been falling
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for quite a bit so has already reached terminal velocity (would this be
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differnt due to the vapours?). Finally we can estimate a drag coefficient
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of 0.7 as he is falling feet first, using the equation Terminal Vel =
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sqrt((2 * mass * gravity) / (air density * area * drag ce)) we get a
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terminal velocity of 106.9408 m/s or 350.8513 ft/s (if the vapours have not yet taken affect of
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slowing his fall yet (he later describes the vapours begining to take affect)) so then if we multiply this by 70 we find that he
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has fallen approximatley 7486 metres during this 70 second period, however
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repeating this for a 3 minute period (estimated) we get 16041 metres
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fallen which is 16 km (10 miles) which would fit up with Gregors later
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description of the Underland being "miles beneath the city of New York" in
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the second book. The maths checks out!
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<td>Page 16, Line 24</td>
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<td>Could running towards the light at the end of a tunnel be an Islamic reference?</td>
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<td>Page 18, Line 10</td>
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<td>The Crawlers are already shown to have a liking to Boots</td>
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<td>Page 24, Line 4</td>
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<td><img src="/theunderland/images/wingspanmaths.png" width="400"/><br/>15' is around 4.5 Metres and that's the smallest bat so the largest
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likely go up to 20' (6 Metres). Using the image of a Flier from the Marks
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of Secret cover we estimate (using Luxa's torso height as 1 m) that the
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wings (to the edge of the image) are about 7.05 Metres (using pythagoras) so the whole wingspan, including ~1 m for
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the back of the flier is about 15.1 Metres, then we add on about 4 metres
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for the part of the wing that is cut off and get about 19.1 Metres +- 3
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Metres range for inaccuracy. The maths checks out! (especially since Ares
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is meant to be a big bat)</td>
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<td>Page 26</td>
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<td>Gregor initially does not like Luxa, he judged her book by her cover
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(rookie mistake)</td>
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</table>
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<h3>Chapter 3</h3>
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<table>
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<tr>
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<td>Page </td>
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<td>Comment</td>
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<td>Page 27-28</td>
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<td>For somebody to be so transparent you can see their veins and organs
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is ridiculous with only 400 years of evolution and likewise for purple
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eyes, I think it is most likely these are genetic mutations inherited from
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the original underland settlers as opposed to having any relation to the
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lack of sun, the white hair also, though this is pretty common so it might
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not have any significance. Even if one never sees the sun, ones skin
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would not be transparent.</td>
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<td>Page 29, Line 23</td>
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<td>The word cool, to mean fashionable
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originated <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/cool">around 1933</a>
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and so it makes sense that Luxa doesn't understand.
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