Gregor the Overlander
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- Exposition
- I'm so bored!
- Hi Ge-go!
- Rising Event #1/Inciting Event
- Boots, No!!!
- Rising Event #2
- Good luck!
- It is the beginning of summer vacation in New York City. Eleven year old Gregor, our main protagonist, is stuck at home in his apartment with his two year old little sister, Boots. Gregor wanted to go to summer camp with his other sister, Lizzie, but someone needed to stay home and take care of Boots.
- Climax
- Gregor's mom is at work, and his dad went missing a few years before. Gregor is sorting laundry, when Boots falls into an old air duct grate. Not wanting to lose his sister, he follows her. This is the inciting event because if Gregor and Boots hadn't gone through the air duct grate, they never would have met the people in the Underland, or found their father.
- Falling Action
- Gregor and Boots fall to the Underland, where they meet Vikus, who is the head of the Regalian Council. Regalia is one of the human cities in the Underland. Vikus believes Gregor is the warrior that is mentioned in one of the prophecies that the Underlanders live by. Gregor learns that his missing father had fallen to the Underland, and was taken hostage by the rats, who are enemies to the humans. Vikus sends him on a quest to find his father, as it says to do in the prophecy. The quest is made up of Gregor, Boots, Luxa, who is Vikus's granddaughter, Henry, who is Luxa's cousin, and two bats. Later, Ripred, who is a good rat, joins them, along with two spiders and two cockroaches.
- Resolution
- Hey, Mom. We're home.
- The quest arrives at the cave where Gregor's father is kept hostage. There, Henry reveals himself to be a spy for the rats. Rats come to fight, including the king, Gorger. Gregor then realizes that he needs to sacrifice himself so the others can live. He jumps over the rats and starts running, hoping that most of the rats will follow him. He jumps off the ledge, and plummets into the canyon below. He is realizing he will die when a bat swoops under him, and catches him before he crashes into the rocks below. He and the bat return to the others, and they start their journey back to Regalia. This is the climax because it is when the quest defeats the rats, and finds Gregor's father. The man vs. man conflict is resolved.
- Henry! How could you!?
- Four of the questers died during the quest, and Ripred flees so he doesn't get killed by other rats. The remaining questers leave the cave, but they are lost, and don't know which way is the direction back to Regalia. They take a break in another cave, and Gregor tries to tend to injuries. Then Gregor's dad comes out of the stupor he was in since the battle with the rats. Gregor's dad realizes that he can create a makeshift compass that will lead them back to Regalia, since he knows the city is in the northern part of the Underland. The quest returns to Regalia safely.
- This way is north!
- A few days later, a bat takes Gregor, Boots, and Gregor's dad back up to the Overland, where they are reunited with Grace, Gregor's mom.
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