# Gregor the Overlander Annotations

## Blurb:

<blurb>When eleven-year-old Gregor
follows his little sister through a grate in the
laundry room of their New York apartment
building, he hurtles into the dark Underland beneath the
City. There, humans live uneasily beside giant spiders,
bats, cockroaches, and rats -- but the fragile peace is about
to fall apart.
Gregor wants no part of a conflict. He just wants to
find his way home. But when he discoveres that a prophecy
foretells a role for him in the Underland's future, he realizes
it might be the only way to solve the biggest mystery of his
life. Little does he know his quest will change him -- and
the Underland -- forever

</blurb>

## Part 1: The Fall

### Chapter 1:

Page | Comment
Page 1 | Suzanne Collins uses an extended metaphour of Gregor being a caveman here. Could this allude to how he sees the Underlanders as prehistoric and is embarrased by Vikus later on? Or perhaps just his teenage instinctual actions?
Page 2 | Gregor is repulsed by rats - foreshadowing at the Gnawers being the main antagonists
Page 4, Line 9 | "Golden Glow" - Aliteration
Page 6 | Foreshadowing to Gregor falling down the laundry shoot, and how he is later in the series exited to go to the underland
Page 7, Line 2 | Is this a JoJo's reference?
Page 9, Line 6 | This metaphour of music taking him to "Another world altogether" is foreshadowing of The Underland
Page 10-11 | Gregor and Luxa both deal with missing/dead parents in the same way by being strict on themselves and not allowing themselves to be happy
Page 12, Line 6 | Cliffhanger ending