# Gladiator — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Gladiator by Philip Wylie.

- [Gladiator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/gladiator.md): Hugo Danner, possessing superhuman strength and invulnerability, struggles to find his place in a world that fears and rejects him. After a series of failed attempts to fit in—through football, academia, and manual labor
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/i.md): Professor Abednego Danner, a biologist in Indian Creek, Colorado, conducts secret experiments to create super-strong creatures by altering their chemistry. After a breakthrough with tadpoles that smash glass and leap imp
- [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/ii.md): Professor Abednego Danner learns that his wife Matilda is pregnant. Driven by scientific curiosity and a desire to test his serum on a human, he drugs her with an opiate-laced cordial and injects her with his experimenta
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/iii.md): Hugo Danner's early childhood is marked by the revelation of his superhuman strength, his mother's attempts to hide it, and his first experiences with school and social ostracism. After a violent confrontation with his w
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/iv.md): At age ten, Hugo Danner discovers the full extent of his superhuman abilities during a solitary walk in the mountains, where he runs at incredible speeds, jumps forty feet in the air, and feels a rapturous sense of freed

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- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/v.md)
- [Arrival at Webster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [The Pearl Diver and the Sea](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/x.md)
- [Chapter XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/xii.md)
- [Chapter XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/xiv.md)
- [The Armistice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/xv.md)
- [Chapter XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/xvi.md)
- [Chapter XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/xvii.md)
- [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/xviii.md)
- [Chapter XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/xix.md)
- [The Burden of the Secret](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/xx.md)
- [Chapter XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/xxi.md)
- [Chapter XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/xxii.md)
- [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gladiator_se/chapters/xxiii.md)

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