<style> table, th, td { border: 1px solid; } </style> <h1>Gregor the Overlander Annotations</h1> <h2>Blurb:</h2> <blurb>When eleven-year-old Gregor<br/>follows his little sister through a grate in the<br/>laundry room of their New York apartment<br/>building, he hurtles into the dark Underland beneath the<br/>City. There, humans live uneasily beside giant spiders,<br/>bats, cockroaches, and rats -- but the fragile peace is about<br/>to fall apart.<br/>Gregor wants no part of a conflict. He just wants to<br/>find his way home. But when he discoveres that a prophecy<br/>foretells a role for him in the Underland's future, he realizes<br/>it might be the only way to solve the biggest mystery of his<br/>life. Little does he know his quest will change him -- and<br/>the Underland -- forever<br/><hr/></blurb> <h2>Part 1: The Fall</h2> <h3>Chapter 1:</h3> <table> <tr> <td>Page </td> <td>Comment</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Page 1</td> <td>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?</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Page 2</td> <td>Gregor is repulsed by rats - foreshadowing at the Gnawers being the main antagonists</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Page 4, Line 9</td> <td>"Golden Glow" - Aliteration</td> <tr> <tr> <td>Page 6</td> <td>Foreshadowing to Gregor falling down the laundry shoot, and how he is later in the series exited to go to the underland</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Page 7, Line 2</td> <td>Is this a JoJo's reference?</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Page 9, Line 6</td> <td>This metaphour of music taking him to "Another world altogether" is foreshadowing of The Underland</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Page 10-11</td> <td>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</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Page 12, Line 6</td> <td>Cliffhanger ending</td> </tr> </table>