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- 1. UNDER THE MOUNTAINbyMAURICE GEE
- 2. MAURICE GEEHE WAS RECOGNISED AS ADISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDIN 1998 AND A HONORARY DOCTOR OF LITERATURE IN 2004He was born in WhakataneDOCTOROFLITERATUREborn22AugustBA &MADEGREESMARRIED,THREECHILDREN1978 James TaitblackHE COMPLETED BA MA DEGREESAT THEUNIVERSITY OFAUCKLANDHe was awardedThe 1978 James TaitBlack memorial prizeFor plumbHE IS CURRENTLYMARRIED AND HAS THREEKIDS.HIS WIFE IS A WRITERAS WELL AS HIM
- 3. MY PREDICTIONSMY PREDICTIONS ARE THAT THE STORY WILL BEABOUT A COUPLE OF KIDS THAT WILL DISCOVER AN ALIEN RACE THAT HAS BEEN HIDING ONEARTH FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND THAT THE ALIENS’S PLAN IS TO DISTROY THE EARTH ANDHUMANITY.
- 4. CHAPTER SUMMARY 1RACHEL AND HER BROTHER THEO HAVE MET UP WITH THEIR COUSIN RICKY WHO HAS TAKEN THEM TO THE BEACH HOUSE.RACHEL HAS NOTICED A STRANGE OLD MAN AND RICKY HAS TAKEN THE TWO OF THEM OUT IN THE KAYAK. THEN RACHEL AND THEO WENT OUT BY THEMSELVES’S AND HAD SEEN A SCARY FIGURE IN THE DOORWAY OF THE MYSTERY MAN’S HOUSE.
- 5. CHAPTER 2 SUMMARY THEO AND RACHEL HAVE BEEN TAKEN OUT BY RICKY ANDTHEIR AUNT ON A TOUR AND THEY’VE GONE UP A HILL TOA LOOKOUT AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF A CRATER MR.JONES HAD BEEN APPEARING,DISAPPEARING AND REAPPEARING.THEN WHEN THEY WERE GOING HOME RACHEL ASKED IF SHE COULD GO TO THE LIBRARY BUT THEREAL REASON WAS SO SHE COULD THINK ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON SO WHEN SHE WAS AT THE LIBRARY MR.JONES GRABBED RACHEL’S HAND AND INSERTED A WARMTH IN TO HER BODY AND THEN LEFT THE LIBRARY.WHEN RACHEL GOT HOME THEO WAS SAYING THAT HE SAW MR.JONES AND THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENED TO RACHEL HAPPENED TO THEO
- 6. CHAPTER 3 SUMMARYRACHEL AND THEO WERE TAKEN OUT IN THE SEALADY BY RICKY FOR A RIDE OUT TO RANGITOTOWHEN THEY WERE ATTACKED BY SOME MYSTERYCREATURES SO THEY RUSHED BACK TO SHORE.WHENTHEY WERE HEADING HOME RACHEL AND THEO SAW MR.JONES SO THEY GOT OUT OF RICKY’S BEACH BUGGY ANDCAUGHT UP WITH MR. JONES FOR THE AFTERNOON.WHILE THEY WERE THERE THEY HAD A COMPLETELYSILENT CONVERSATION USING TELEPATHY.THEN MR.JONES HANDED EACH OF THEM A STONE WHICH HE SAID TO COMPLETELY FORGET EVERYTHING IN THEIR MINDSAND SEE THE STONE WITHIN WHICH AT FIRST FAILED BUT A SECOND ATTEMPT SUCCEEDED EXCELLENTLY
- 7. CHAPTER 4 SUMMARYRACHEL AND THEO HAVE LOST PATIENCE AND JUMPED INTOTHE CANOE AT 2:30am AND WENT TO INVESTIGATE THEWILBERFORCE’S HOUSE.WHEN THEY WERE IN THE HOUSE THEY FOUND SEVERAL TUNNELS,DOORS AND THERE WAS A TRAPDOOR IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM.SUDDENLY A BIG GROUP OF SLUG TYPE CREATURES CAMECRAWLING OUT OF THE TRAPDOOR SO THE TWINS JUMPED FOR COVER.WHEN THE CREATURES WERE OUTSIDE THEO AND RACHEL TRIED TO ESCAPE BUT THEYGOT CAUGHT AND SO THEY RAN FOR THETRAPDOOR AND CLOSED IT BEHIND THEM BUT IN THAT PROCESS THEO WHACKED HIS BACK AND FELL DOWN THE TUNNEL TILLHE HIT A STRAIGHT PIECE OF CONCRETE SO RACHEL WENTDOWN TO SEE IF THEO WAS OK.THEN THEY WERE TRAPPEDAND THE ONLY WAY OUT WAS DOWN THE TUNNEL FURTHER SO THEYGOT READY TO GO DOWNTHE TUNNEL.
- 8. CHAPTER 5 SUMMARYRACHEL AND THEO WERE IN THE TUNNEL WHEN THEY TO A LARGE STONE WALLED CHAMBER.WHEN THEY WEREIN THERE THEY HAD TWO TUNNELS TO CHOOSE FROM ANDSO THEY WENT DOWN THE TUNNEL ON THE RIGHT WHICH ON THE THIRD ATTEMPT THEY GOT UP OVER ONE PARTICULAR CLIMB BECAUSE RACHEL KEPT ON SLIPPING.WHEN THEY WERE UP AND OVER THE CLIMB THEY CAME TO WHAT LOOKED LIKE THE END OF THE ROAD FOR THEM …THERE WAS A DEAD END.THEN THEY HEARD NOISES ANDA COUPLE OF BABY SLUGS TURNED UP BUT RACHEL ANDTHEO MANAGED TO SCARE THEM AWAY.THEN THEO FOUND A WAY OUT AND THEY ESCAPED UNHARMED
- 9. CHAPTER 6 SUMMARYRACHEL AND THEO HAVE GONE TO MR. JONES’S HOUSEWHERE HE HAS TOLD THEM ABOUT WHY THE WILBER-FORCES WERE ON EARTH,WHAT THEIR PLAN WAS AND THE FACT THAT THEY DON’T HAVE A PROPER NAME BUTWHATEVER NAME PEOPLE CALL THEM THEIR REAL NAME IS ‘THE CREATURES WHO CONQUER AND MULTIPLY’ AND MR. JONS’S REAL NAME IS ‘THE PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND’ WAY BACK IN TIME MR.JONES’S PEOPLEWERE HAVIG A WAR BETWEEN THE WILBERFORCE’S KIND AND THEIR PEOPLE.THEN WHEN THE WILBERFORCES RAN MR. JONES’S PEOPLE TRACKED THEM DOWN TO EARTH BUT WHEN THEY GOT THERE MR. JONES’S PEOPLE HAD DIED AND BECAUSE THERE WERE TWO MAGIC STONES MR.JONES COULDN’T USE THE STONE SO HE TRIED TO FIND THE TWINS BECAUSE THEY SHARE THE SAME LOOKS AND MINDS
- 10. CHAPTER 7 SUMMARYTHEO AND RACHEL HAVE GONE TO MR.JONES’S HOUSEWHERE RACHEL HAS DONE EXCEPTIONLY WELL AT SEEING INTO THE STONES YET THEO HASN’T HAD SO MUCH LUCK.AND BECAUSE RACHEL HAS HAD SO MUCH LUCK MR. JONES HAS INSISTED THAT RACHEL PICKS UP HER STONE BUT RACHEL HAS INSISTED TO MR. JONES THAT HE TELLS HER ABOUT THE SWEDISH TWINS SO THATSHE COULD FORGET ABOUT THE PAIN SO MR. JONES TOLD HER ABOUT THE TWINS AND THEN ONCE THE DAY WAS OVER MR. JONES GAVE THE TWINS THE STONES TO KEEP AND SO THE TWINS LIVE ON TO ANOTHER DAY.
- 11. CHAPTER 8 SUMMARYRACHEL AND THEO HAVE READ A NOTE ON THE TABLE SAYING THEIRAUNT AND UNCLE WERE GOING OUT TO A PARTY AND WOULD BE HOME AROUND MIDNIGHT AND AT THE BOTTOM THEIR COUSIN RICKYHAD SCRIBBLED AT THE BOTTOM THAT HE WOULD BE HOME SOON BECAUSE HE WENT OUT TO GET SOME FRIENDS FOR A PARTY.SO THE TWINS WERE OK WITH THAT UNTIL THERE WAS A LOUD POUNDING ON THE DOOR BY A SO CALLED COP SAYING THAT THE TWINS’S PARENTS PLACE HAD BURNT DOWN BUT THEN THEO ASKED WHERE THEY LIVED AND HE GOT IT WRONG SO BOTH TWINS KNEW IT WAS ATRICK SO THEY WENT AND HID BUT THEN THE ‘COP’ BUSTED DOWN THE DOOR AND IT WAS A FRANTIC CHASE AROUND THE HOUSE BECAUSE THEY KNEW IT WAS A WILBERFORCE AND THEN RICKYAND HIS FRIENDS TURNED UP AND TACKLED THE WILBERFORCE TO THE GROUND AND THEN MR. JONES TURNED UP AND THEN THE WILBERFORCE UNLUCKILY ESCAPED BECAUSE MR. JONES TURNED UP
- 12. CHAPTER 9 SUMMARYRACHEL’S HAND HAD BEEN SQUEEZED SO HARD THEWILBERFORCE HAD PUT A COLDNESS INTO HER BODY INSTEAD OF THE WARMTH SO MR. JONES WAS TRYING TO HEAL RACHEL WHILE SHE LAID ON HERBED.MORNING CAME AND RACHEL WAS FEELING BETTER SO MR.JONESWENT INTO THEO’S ROOM AND SAID TO HIM TO KEEP PRACTICING HOLDING YOUR STONE SO THAT’S WHAT HE DID FOR THEDAY.AFTYERNOON CAME AND THEO WAS WOKEN TO SEE RACHEL AND MR. JONES IN HIS ROOM SO THEIR AUNT BOUGHT UP SOME FOODAND THE PLAN WAS FOR MR. JONES, AUNT NOELINE AND THEIR UNCLE CARRY WOULD SMUGGLE THEM OUT TO NARROW NECK.WHILE THEY WERE IN THE CAR THEO COULDN’T HOLD IN THE PAIN AND ACCIDENTLY DROPPED HIS STONE SO DID RACHEL BUT THEY QUICKLY PICKED THEM UP AGAIN AND FORGOT ABOUT IT.WHEN THEY STOPPED THEY ALL GOT OUT OF THE CAR AND THEO AND RACHEL CONFESSED THAT THEY DROPPED THE STONES THEN MR. JONES GOT MAD AND THEN TELEPATHED THE TWINS OVER TO A BENCH WHERE MR. JONES DECIDED TO GO ON DESPITE THE FACT THAT THEY DROPPED THE STONES AND SO HE SAID WHAT THEY HAD TO DO WITH THE STONES AND WHERE TO PUT THEM.
- 13. CHAPTER 10 SUMMARYRachel and Theo have been rushed into the sea lady while there was a frantic race for survival between the Wilberforces and the twins. Finally Ricky got the boat running and it was a close escape from the Wilberforces. When they got out to Rangitoto Mr Jones said for Ricky to turn his lights off and after a bit of arguing Ricky finally turned his lights off. Mr Jones then gave Ricky some instructions and Ricky took note and then left. Rachel,Theo and Mr Jones then took off on their journey up the mountain. Half way up Mr Jones took control of their minds and guided them up. When they got to the out skirts of the crater Mr Jones stopped the mind Control and left Theo in a safe place while Mr Jones took Rachel the rest of the way to the crater where she dropped her stone in and then picked Theo up on the way down as the Wilberforces were no longer after Rachel they were after Theo now because of his stone.
- 14. CHAPTER 11 SUMMARYMr Jones,Theo and Rachel have made It down the mountain And just like planned Ricky turned up so Mr Jones went overand talked to him and then Ricky secretly went off . Then Mr Jones has came back and told Theo that only Mr Jones and him could go on and Rachel would have to stay in hiding but Theo said that he wasn’t going to go on without her so after A bit of arguing Mr Jones let in and said that she could come. So the three of them set of f around the coast making sure They were in the shade. Eventually they came to the sea and Mr Jones said that they had to go under so one at a time Mr Jones took the twins down to a tunnel under the sea. When Under Mr Jones lit up his hand and then the twins found out they were in an underground tunnel and that it was possibly heading for a pit of lava. When they eventually stoppedThe ground flattened out and they were now under the crater and heading forward.
- 15. CHAPTER 12 SUMMARYTheo , Rachel and Mr Jones have been walking through the Tunnel whenthey came to a chamber. There has been a hole In the roof and Mr Jones has gone up and checked if Ricky was there but he wasn’t so Mr Jones came to the conclusion that he had been killed by the Wilberforces. When he has come back to deliver the news Rachel has been really sad And refused to go on but Theo has pulled her along behind Him. When they have got to the surface Mr Jones has tried to hold the Wilberforcesof but he was to weak so the Wilberforces have just brushed straight passed him throwing him off down a hill. While this has been happening Theo has been running away from the Wilberforces on his way up to the top where the crater was but on the way up a Wilberforce has reached for Theo’s ankle and gotten a fair grip on it so Theo has fallen to the ground scraping his knees and elbows but he has had enough strength to throw his stone into the crater. While Theo was at the top Mr Jones was saying in Rachel’s mind that he needed to see the end so Rachel went down and helped Mr Jones to his feet where they have gone on to meet Theo at the top. At the top Theo’s stone has sent out a beam that has joined with Rachel’s stone which was creating a big storm and then Theo’s stone and Rachel’s stone haveconnected blowing up all the
- 16. CHAPTER 12 SUMMARYWilberforces. Theo and Rachel have walked all through town and eventually coming across a group of people and have asked for shelter.
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