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Summer In Natasha Preston's The Cellar
In the thrilling and suspenseful novel, The Cellar by Natasha Preston, the main character Summer was followed on her way to a nightclub, when a stranger from behind abducted her, and took her to the middle of the English country side. She later was awoken by three strangers all smiling at her as she lay on the cold linoleum floor. The strangers were dressed like dolls, each matching with long sweaters and matching pants, the only difference was the delicately embroidered flowers on each of the sweaters. The three girls all looked as if they were zombies, all hypnotized by something, but showing only one emotion, fear. And that is when Summer realizes she has been kidnapped. The story shows, what it is like to feel powerless and for all freedom to be taken away from you, this challenge is faced by the main character Summer. From the beginning of the story, Summer is faced with the challenge of trying to get out of the too perfect basement. …show more content…
Except behind his back she relied on her instincts and pure courage. An example of this was when Clover left all four girls alone, she then told all the girls about her escape plan . Even though, for all she could know the girls could tell what she had said to Clover and she could be punished severely. Summer definitely relied on her gut instincts by talking to three girls, but for me I may have had a gut feeling like that, but I would have not gone by it. If I were put in the shoes of Summer, I would not trust anyone in that basement, because for all I could know one of them was put down there to inform everything that happened. The gamble Summer took, could have been life threatening, for me I would have only been plotting in my head, and would not have trusted anyone, and I would have been

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