How Does Clover Change Throughout The Novel

So far in The Cellar, Summer has been kidnapped by a guy named Clover (Colin) who also kidnapped three other girls. Farther in Clover killed Violet, Summer’s closest friend she made down in the cellar. Now, Summer is trying to fit in with the other two more so that Clover won't pick her out of the three of them like a sore thumb. Summer also tries to do anything to get her mind off of being down there, so she reads a lot, and now she has asked to join Rose and Poppy with knitting. Summer still does have hope for getting out, but she's not so sure about Rose and Poppy. Rose acts like none of this is happening and it's better than her past life, and Poppy is the same, but she has more emotion.

After Summer, Rose, Poppy, and Clover had breakfast
one morning, the girls cleaned up and Clover left for work. After the girls cleaned up breakfast, Rose and Poppy went to go knitting again, and they were also going to continue teaching Summer. After trying to teach Summer how to knit, she got very flustered, but Rose and Poppy will still teach her till she gets it right and they keep telling her she’ll eventually get it. Then, Rose and Poppy finally tell Summer that Clover brought down a newspaper. Summer has been wanting a newspaper for a long time so that she could see if there was another picture of her in it with someone that she loved. So, they then hand her the newspaper and on the front cover is a picture of Summer with Lewis. After she saw that Lewis was in the picture with her she started to cry a bit and she couldn't stop staring at the picture.

Summer has now been in the clean tidy lemon smelling cellar for five months now, and she turned 17 on December 13th but she didn't tell anyone because she didn't want anyone to know. Summer has gotten used to the cellar, but it always creeps her out whenever Clover comes down the stairs of the cellar. Summer has also gotten used to their routine they do everyday. Some days they will knit, or read, or even watch a movie all together on the sofa. By the kitchen is a table with four vases on it with four different flowers inside, but sense Clover killed Violet, there are only three vases full of flowers.

Clover has changed over many years.
The first time it went to Clover’s past in the book, he seemed sort of normal, but the only thing he did to stand out was that he kidnapped three girls. He named all three of them Violet, Poppy, and Lilly. He then seeks out this one girl named Shannon who he wants to be in his “perfect family” and name her Rose. This time, Clover actually has some feeling for this girl, Rose (Shannon). He has been seeing her for three weeks and has begun to like her, but he also wants to make her apart if his “perfect family”, but she has no clue that he is going to do that. Then, back to now in present time. He looked at the dead flowers and hit all three of the girls, he then went up stairs and never came back down for breakfast. Then her finally came down at noon and was mumbling to himself and kept stuttering when he talked to Rose. He also brought down new flowers for the vases. He then went upstairs and to,d them “Goodnight” which the girls noticed that he most likely wasn't coming down for supper, or that he either doesn't know the exact
time.

Back in Colin’s (Clover) past, he has been seeing this girl named Shannon for about a month.
Shannon is like the other girls in his cellar, but she is more kind and caring. Colin has begun to like Shannon more than the other girls in his cellar, he believes that she is the one for him, his wife, the one to complete his “perfect family”. In his past he finally decides that he has gained her trust and takes her out to dinner and then once their done he would take her back to his house to look after her. So, after they're done eating and get back in his car, she thinks that he is taking her back, not to his house. Once he pulls into his driveway Shannon gets confused and wonders why their there and Colin makes up a little lie that he is going to go to the bathroom (because it's his house). When they get inside he tells her that she is home and that he will take care of her. Shannon freaks out a little. Colin then pushes her up against the wall because Shannon is fighting to get away. Colin then tries to calm her down and tell her everything is going to be okay, and that he will take care of her and look after her. She then stops fighting back and then agrees, but she doesn't think she should stay with him. Then he gets frustrated and has no choice but to put her in the cellar and make her Rose. Once he closes the door he slumps down and cries because he actually loved her and wanted to start a life with
her.

In present time, Clover drives to the hostel where some runaways go and he waits for a girl named Layla who he wants to be the new Violet. Once he spots her he gets out of his car and he talks to her like a normal person, and then he ask her if she needs a lift but she doesn't. He then makes up a lie that she believes and gets in the car with him because he “doesn't know the city well”. Then he locks the doors and tells her that she will be home soon and calls her Violet. She then freaks out and tries to escape but fails. Once they get to his house he drags her inside and pushes her down stairs to the cellar and tells the other girls to explain everything to her and then he leaves.