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I am reading the novel Gregor the overlander by Suzanne Collins, the book Is about a boy named Gregor. Gregor lives on earth with his family, his dad disappeared one day outta nowhere. Gregor was babysitting his younger sister, when she fell into a hole that was in there laundry room. Gregor decides to jump after his sister, they fall through the earth to the underland. While they are down there Gregor discovers new creatures, and he also makes some friends along the way. Gregor is a fantasy novel.
Gregor throughout the whole book has been trying to figure a way out of the underland, and I think he has yet to find a way out that would be easy to do. Gregor has had to make many changes like leaving New York, and his friends, family. But I think
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(Collins 109). In that passage they are talking about the prophecy of grey. Which is saying that Gregor will be a warrior and that they will go to war with the rats, I can infer that from the passage that Gregor is the warrior and he will have to go to war. It also says they will get help from some other creatures. “Two over, two under, of royal descent, two flyers, two crawlers, two spinners assent. One gnawer beside and one lost up ahead and eight will be left when we count up the dead. (Collins 109). The two over I think are Gregor and Boots or Gregor's dad and Gregor, the two under I think are Luxa and Henry. I am not sure who the flyers are I know that they are bats but I don't know which bats. The crawlers are the cockroaches, and the spinners are spiders. But I have not yet seen them In the book, and the gnawers are the rats. The rats are the antagonists in the story, the bats are allies to the overlanders and underlanders. I think for the most part that the cockroaches are helpful to the humans but i'm not 100 percent sure. The spiders I have not seen or really heard of them yet in the

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