The Cellar Main Event

The book The Cellar, is about a young girl named Summer fighting and struggling to survive.

1.The hidden girl was a story about a girl named Shyima Hall. She was born into a poor family and Shyima was the seventh child. A year later her family sold her into slavery in Egypt. While she was there she worked for most of the day and into the night waiting hand and foot for the rich family. Later when suspicion rose they moved to California and Shyima continued to take care of the family. She had to cook, clean and babysit the two younger boys. For example she had to sit on a bench while the two boys played on the playground. She was only a couple years older but she sat there because she didn’t want to get in trouble. Eventually a neighbor noticed and she was rescued by the Child Protection Services.

The novel, The Cellar, by Natasha Preston, is a mysterious, suspenseful and eerie book that keeps readers guessing throughout the entire read. The story takes place in a small town in England where hardly any crime happens. Due to the overall safe feeling of the small town, Summer, the main character, does not feel unsafe when walking alone at night. She states, “Our town was probably-actually definitely-the most boring place on earth; nothing even remotely interesting ever happened” (4). However, this is how the trouble began. The basic plot begins when Summer leaves for a gig she had gotten and gets abducted by a man named Clover. He takes her back to his house and locks her in a finished Cellar with three other girl and assigns them names

Have you ever thought about being taken by a stranger and thinking you will never see you friends or family again? I believe that could be the scariest thing that could ever happen to someone. In the the book The Cellar girls are bing kidnapped and they are being named after flowers. The man named Clover thinks that if he takes girls and keeps them in the basement he could make the perfect family. But if any of the girls try to attack him they will strongly regret it and they may even get killed. In this paper i will be using the strategy connection.

The 1st and most imporant theme in the story was when the kids went to pick on ms.lottie cause she stayed in a old beat-up dull brown house but she had a small beautify garden. In the garden there was freash planted pretty orange, red, and yellow flowers. These flowers was called marigolds.some evidence show that they kids threw rocks at ms.lottie and

Madeline both have illness The narrator is the childhood friend of Roderick usher The house of has a connection to all three of them living in the house The fall of the usher is

Clover wanted a family so bad that he resorted to kidnapping to get what he wanted. He wanted to protect the innocent from the cruel society we live in. He renamed the girls after flowers because he thought they were pure. He fell in love with each of them. He would bring home prostitutes and kill them with his knife to show the girls the bad thinks the world consists of. When he fell in love with the girls he would rape them. The girls had to be brave, because if they disobeyed him he would kill them. Clover had OCD so they had to shower twice a day. The girls didn’t mind it because they could cry without anyone hearing them. They hated it at the same time because he wanted them to do it. Lily’s family never stopped searching for her and that is why Clover got caught and the girls got saved. Unfortunately, Clover had already taken many young girls lives

Savannah, Tom, their brother Luck and the other sister Lila were victims of a home invasion by three men as children. In the attempt to save their family lives two of the men were shot to death and the other man was stabbed to death by the Savannah. The family was instructed by their mother to bury the three men and to never speak of this incident ever again and they all swore to this family secret.

She hated her stepfather so much that she was barely home and always got in arguments with her mother, yelling at her for marrying such a bad man. Mary and her mother did not get along after her mom remarried so Mary drank and began to live like a hobo. There was nothing for the men to do back than besides drink so she couldn't really blame her mother for picking a man like that because that is how they all were. They just drank and drove around wasted. Mary was one of six kids, sister Kathie, brother Robert, sister Barbara (who she got along the best with), sister Sandra and then an adopted little brother. The adopted brother was very spoiled. Mary's mother had to find a job to help support the kids and when she was gone at work nobody was left to take care of them so their grandparents took care of them. Her grandma was born Louise Flood and her grandpa was Brave Bird. Her grandpa was killed when the horses which were pulling his wagon were startled by a lighting storm. The horses freaked out and caused the wagon to tip. Brave Bird got thrown out of the wagon and got tangled in the reins. The horses dragged him through the bush, over rocks, and over barbed-wire fence. When people found him he was dead. Her grandma ended up remarrying a man named Noble Moore. Noble Moore had a son named Bill who ended up marrying Mary's mom. Mary's mom had grown up and no longer was married to the

Summer, or Lily as she’s called in the cellar, is a beautiful 16 year old girl who is thin and has straight, blonde hair and blue eyes. Summer has a boyfriend, Lewis. She also gets good grades. It seems like Summer has a bright future until Clover makes her whole world come crashing down.

The main theme in this story is identity.Throughout the book the main character, Irene struggles with her identity. In the first chapter Irene is a regular Passing women who lives in Harlem with her husband Brain, but we start to see her mental health problems as she reunites with her childhood friend Clare.Clare is also a woman that

The story begins when Isabel and Ruth are attending the funeral of their owner, Miss Mary Finch. Miss Mary Finch freed the girls in her

James and Bill were the well known "bad guys" of the New York square. James was a drug dealer, and had a really nice house. Bill was the main person who bought off of him, and didn't have a very nice house, he lived in an abandoned church. James had a really big crush on a homeless girl that live on his street about half a mile down the road, her name was Kaylee. Kaylee was a tall 32 year-old lady who was always dressed nice for being a homeless person and not being able to buy things, she was really shy and didn't really communicate with anyone in the town. She had been going through a rough time since her

Everyone think a guy named Jack Culpeper was killed by wolves, but Grace doesn't believe that. So the town decide to let the hunters kill the wolves. Grace found out by Isabel Culpeper, Jack Culpeper's sister. Once she found out, she ran out of school and got in her car. Her car broke down when she got near the woods. She saw the hunters walking in the forest wearing orange bright caps and holding shotguns. She had to make-up a lie so the hunters will stop hunting for the wolves, so she went to the police officer and told him "you need to stop them, my friend is in there taking pictures". It took awhile for her to convince him but she succeed. He was taking so long and Grace knew he was doing it on purpose. So Grace, being fearless, she jumped in the ditch and started running towards the hunters. She caught up to them convince them to stop. The police officer caught up to her and told how dangerous what she just did, but she didn't listening. She was too busy thinking about the wolves, her

The Secret Life of Bees begins in the town of Sylvan, South Carolina and tells the story of 14-year-old Lily Melissa Owens. She lives on a peach orchard with her neglectful and abusive father, T. Ray. They have Black maid named Rosaleen who is a companion and caretaker of Lily. The book opens with Lily's discovery of bees in her bedroom and the story of how she killed her mother. The eve before her birthday Lily sneaks out into the peach orchard to visit the box of her mother’s belongings which is buried there however before she can hide them T. Ray finds her and punishes her. The next day Rosaleen and Lily head into town where Rosaleen is arrested for pouring her bottle of tobacco spit on three white men. Lily breaks her out of prison and they begin hitchhiking toward Tiburon, SC, a town Lily had seen on the back of a picture of a black Virgin Mary which her mom had owned. They hitch a ride to Tiburon and once there, they buy lunch at a general store, and Lily sees a picture of the same Virgin Mary on a jar of honey. She asks the store owner where it came from and he gives her directions to the Boatwright house. They then meet the makers of the honey: August, May and June Boatwright, who are all black. Lily makes up a wild story about being recently orphaned. The sisters welcome Rosaleen and Lily into their home. They are then introduced to beekeeping and the Boatwright’s way of life. Lily learns more about the Black Madonna honey that the sisters make. She begins working