The Cellar by Natasha Preston Trapped underground, with no connection to the outside world and no hope of escape. In Natasha Preston’s chilling story, The Cellar, a girl named Summer is kidnapped and taken to an underground living space with three other girls. These girls are being held captive by a man they only know as Clover, and they have to assume the parts of his four flowers; Rose, Violet, Poppy, and Lily. The foul-tempered and psychotic man named Clover keeps these girls as the family he never had, and forces them to change their names and live as if nothing is wrong. Summer grows to learn the immaculate horrors that occur in Clover’s world where these four girls are being held hostage. Preston highlights their fear with figurative…show more content… There are three characters that have chapters dedicated to their point of view; Summer, Lewis, who is Summer’s boyfriend, and Clover. Preston utilizes the craft move to demonstrate the fear of the environment of the cellar, Lewis’ desperation to find Summer, and Clover’s immense psychological issues, including his germophobia, and some of the memories that may have contributed to these matters. These character perspectives give the reader a clearer understanding of what Summer, Lewis and Clover are going through. In demonstration, Summer states, “Think of this as it’s happening to someone else. It’s happening to Lily, and i’m not Lily.” Summer’s desperation to survive is abundantly clear in this scene. However strong of a person she is, this situation is terrifying. Her devices to cope with it include using the name that Clover uses for her as separate identity, so that she can pretend that this isn’t real, only temporary. She uses this mechanism differentiate Lily to Summer, and that all of the torture is really happening to Lily, although they’re the same person. These inner thoughts really describe the horror Summer is going through, so much that she goes almost insane coping with it. Additionally, Summer, or Lily as she’s known in the cellar, has to remind herself to play her part otherwise Clover might
