89 pages • 2 hours read
Geoff RodkeyWe're Not from Here
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Chapters 17-20Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 17 Summary: “A Prattfall Too Far”
At lunch, Iruu comes to Lan’s table and asks Lan to do the Zhuri-walk from class again. Nervously, Lan lopes across the cafeteria, fills a glass with Zhuri food, and returns to the table to do a pratfall and spill the liquid everywhere. Lan hurts their hip in the process, but it doesn’t matter because they’d “never smelled anything as delicious as that doughnut laughter” (169). Before Lan can do anything else, a guard shocks them with an electric weapon, and Lan passes out.
Chapter 18 Summary: “Mixed Messages”
Lan wakes in the principal’s office, where the principal asks why Lan spilled the Zhuri food and fell. Not wanting to tell the truth with a guard present, Lan says it was an attempt to fit in. The principal takes Lan’s side and orders the guard to wait outside the school building from then on. The annoyed guard leaves.
Lan asks the principal why making smell is discouraged, and the principal explains that smell causes trouble but also implies that not all smells are equally troubling. Lan follows up with a question about the presentation on humans, asking if it would be illegal to include things that cause 