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How do flashbacks from Lewis’s and Summer’s perspectives contribute to Summer’s characterization? What other characterization techniques help to characterize this protagonist and demonstrate changes in her arc?

What moments in Chapter 1 foreshadow Summer’s abduction? How does the other utilize in other places in the novel’s first half?

What does the novel implicitly suggest about the demise of earlier Flowers (before those present when Summer arrives)? What context clues are there, and how do these clues impact the atmosphere of the cellar as a setting?