50 pages • 1 hour read
Natasha PrestonThe Cellar
Natasha PrestonFiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
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Content warning: This section of the guide discusses violence and sexual assault.
How do flashbacks from Lewis’s and Summer’s perspectives contribute to Summer’s characterization? What other characterization techniques help to characterize this protagonist and demonstrate changes in her arc?
What moments in Chapter 1 foreshadow Summer’s abduction? How does the other utilize in other places in the novel’s first half?
What does the novel implicitly suggest about the demise of earlier Flowers (before those present when Summer arrives)? What context clues are there, and how do these clues impact the atmosphere of the cellar as a setting?
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