#while gregor in the underland has to face all the survivors. the dead are gone and he is stuck w the living until he loses even them

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Wait a second... hang on im making connections....

Katabasis is a descent into the underworld done by heroes of greek/roman epics. A crucial moment in the hero's journey often to seek guidance from the dead or to attempt at bringing someone back. Nostoi is a homecoming, a narrative specifically abt returning home.

Gregor falling into the underland (unintentional) and bringing his father back to the overland, spending the entire time just trying to get home. The prophecy doesnt really matter to him, he just wants to get his dad and go home.

And he does! But he chooses to go back down over and over again, going to a place full of wonder and danger and war and becoming a hero, losing his way home even tho he finds his way back to the overland in the end. The underland being so connected with death that when he chooses it and the people within in, he struggles to live in the overland (and struggles to live at all without ares).

Im barely coherent im just thinking abt the influence of these narrative devices in this series.