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67 lines
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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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<td>Page </td>
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<td>Comment</td>
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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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<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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