Who Is The Protagonist In The Cellar

Danny attempts to impress Sandy by jumping over hurdles but he trips and falls, but Sandy runs to his aide to check to see if Danny is ok. He asks her about having a date for the “big dance” but she states “No”. At this point Danny takes the opportunity to ask her to go with him and she accepts, but states that she did not appreciate the way he treated her the other night. They decide to go to the local restaurant, but before they go in Danny states that he does not want to go in because he does not want people to bother them. And so he says that he would rather go to a place where they could have some privacy. Before they have a chance to leave friends see Danny and Sandy outside and they come out to see them. Sandy asks he Danny would like to come and have tea with her and her family, but Danny replies he don’t like tea. And moments later the two of them leave. The two go to the dance together and are getting along great, until one of Danny’s ex-girlfriend’s arrives with one of his buddies. Sandy asks how he knows this girl and he states it’s “a friend of the family.” Next, Sandy is whisked away from Danny and this ex-girlfriend begins to dance with him. Sandy being visually upset runs out of the gym and leaves. Danny realizing what has happened but continues to dance.

Lily starts off stuck living in an unloving, abusive household and decides to free herself from the negative atmosphere that she had been living in her whole life. Lily is perpetually abused by her father. He forces her to kneel on Martha White's, gets exasperated every time she speaks, and yells at her for no reason. Lily is not the only one noticing the terrible treatment, Rosaleen does too. Once after Lily had to kneel on the Martha White's Rosaleen said to her, “Look at you, child. Look what he’s done to you” (Kidd 25). Noticing the unloving treatment Lily gets, Rosaleen knew that their household was demoralizing place for Lily to be in, which is why she didn’t question when Lily when she later runs away. Lily one day realizes she needs to do something about her horrible life at home. While sitting in her room she hears a voice in her

When lily went to South Carolina she goes to a lady named August. August is very artifice. Lily stays at her honey house for several months with her aunt Rooselyn. As she lives there she goes through many adventures and meets a ton of new people. She meets her true love Zach and two sister of August named May and June. She finds out a lot about her mother. She finds out that her mother Deborah stayed at the same honey house. She also finds out that her mother ran away from T-Ray when he was abusive. At the end T-Ray finds Lily at Augusts house and he threatens her that she has to come back home with him. Lily fights and eventually convinces T-Ray that she is better off with August and forgives him.

Despite the violence and grim that Summer is put through, she never gives up hope of being found. For seven months she is kept in Clover’s cellar, yet she never gives up hope. She is constantly looking for any glimpse of escape. She repeatedly tells the other girls that her family will find them saying “Lewis will find me. He will never give up” (143). Through her character, Preston is able to demonstrate how people can stay strong despite the situations they are put in. Summer shows how hope can get you through any obstacle despite the severity of the situation.

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 Cellar, by Natasha Preston, is a book about a teenage girl named Summer who gets kidnapped. Summer gets kidnapped by a man named Clover, who is trying to make his, “perfect family.” He keeps four girls in his basement at a time and calls them all by names of flowers, Lilly, Poppy, Rose, and Violet. Summer, who is referred to as Lilly while she is kidnapper, spends seven months with three other girls in the cellar trying to survive until they finally escape. While Lilly is in the cellar she has to watch many horrible things happen, for example, girls getting stabbed to death by Clover. At the end of the book the police arrive at Clover’s house to rescue the girls. After the girls are found Lilly returns to live a normal life with her family and new friends.

When summer finds out the truth about her dad she is shocked. Summer always thought her dad was a good person. She always thought that her mom was wrong about all of the horrible things she said about her father. Summer never thought her father would do something like this. When Summer goes back home her mother tells her what really happened. “Dad has a daughter? I said numbly. It seems all i can do is mumble moms words

Lily comes to know three incredible women called the Boatwrights. Their names are August, June, and May. Lily became closest to August although she was close to May and June, also. Lily felt as though August had a comforting and consoling way about her. August once told Lily “Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough.” (Kidd 111). Her motivational life advice helped to guide Lily. Furthermore, August had to be the one to tell Lily that they had lost May; May had killed herself. Lily did not take the news so well. Lily claimed she had started to “shiver…[she] could feel the teeth in [her] mout, crashing against each other.” (Kidd 193).

Summer agrees and starts looking for Rachel. On her way to the park, alone at night, Summer hears a man say Lily. Scared and shocked, Summer spins around and sees a tall dark haired man coming towards her. Saying “Lily?”. Summers stomach then drops. He keeps calling

The four girls including summer new in order to keep Colin happy they all had to call each other the names Colin gave them, such as Violet, Poppy, Rose, and Summer as Lily, that was how they knew they were going to be able to take care of themselves, because if they called each other those names, he would bring them down food. For example, on page 229, Summer explains, “I woke up to Violet whimpering and crying in pain from when Colin had hit her. In about a half an hour I will change her bandages and give her half of a pain pill.” In other words, Summer is showing that she is caretaking because she was taking care of Violet by changing her bandages and giving her medicine when she needed it. Another example of the caretaking is on page 184, Summer say’s “ I was putting out a damp cloth on Poppy’s cut from when clover stabbed her in the stomach.”

I am reading The Cellar by Natasha Preston and I am on page 241, I also have finished the book Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks and Sarah’s Key Tatiana de Rosnay. This book is about a girl named Summer and while she was at a party Summer got kidnapped. Then Summer gets taken by a man named Clover to a cellar with 3 other girls. While she is down in the cellar she realizes Clover has an obsession with flowers. So he renames Summer as Lily and the other three girls names Rose, Poppy and Violet. As months pass she finds out more secrets of the other girls past lives. She also witnesses many murders Clover commits as his limits get pushed. In Summer’s life before getting kidnapped she had a boyfriend named Lewis and he is searching for her

You've seen all those reported kidnappings. You could be one of them or you already are. In the book, The Face on the Milk Carton, Caroline B. Cooney, explores the levels of how you would feel if one day you woke up, and you were kidnapped. For you, it’s probably wonder, but for Janie Johnson, it’s reality. For sixteen years, Janie lived the normal life until, she found her face on a milk carton. Caroline B. Cooney uses classic suspension techniques by slowing reliving clues to the girl's abduction. First it started as suspicion and ended as so much more, using good tone and theme, Caroline B. Cooney made this book a page-turner. This book gives you the feeling for

This secret was successful at bringing Lily down. Now, no one wants to talk to Lily, and her own boyfriend Reece, broke up with her because he didn’t want to date a lesbian. This then has Lily running away from school, and her home. Police officers are

The next morning Lily woke up really early and a very good mood. She was going to get that map from Lily and then Mary and her well go to Canada and be free. Lily want to the plantation where Annie was enslaved in and she pretended that she was there to pick something up. “Ohhhh! Mr. Wiggins, Mr. Trump we 'll be very angry with me, he said for me to buy one of your horses because one of ours has died.” begged Lily. “Ok I will sell you one of our horses, let me go pick out one.” said Mrs. Wiggins. While Mrs. Wiggins want to barn Lily was walking around when she spotted Annie. “Ohhh Annie how are you?” asked Lily obviously annoyed because she did not like Annie. “I 'm just going to wash the dogs so goodbye Lily.” said Annie, with memories coming back. “I came to ask you something Annie just give me one second.” Said Lily. “Well what is it?” Asked Annie. “I wanted to ask if Mary and I could have the map you gave too the slaves that ran away two nights ago?” asked Lily an a whisper only her and Annie could hear. “And why should I give it to you?” Asked Annie. “Because I 'm hopeless, I hate

The book that I read for my forth novel study is dirty little secrets. The book is about Lucy. Lucy and her best friend Kaylie are at the movie theatre figuring which movie to watch and when they decided to watch chick flick and there outside of the theatre they both josh and Steve. Lucy had a crush on josh and Kaylie had crush on Josh’s best friend Steve. After watching the movie with josh Lucy thought that this is probably the best memory she had in her boring life. When Lucy got out of the theatre josh stopped her and asked her if she can come to watch his band perform at a party. Lucy said that she will try. Lucy heads home and thinks how she will even go to the party without an excuse so she came up with an excuse. Her excuse to her mom was that she is going to sleepover