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City Of Ember Book Vs Movie Essay

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Humanity’s Back-Up City What if humanity did not have the sun, the moon, and a steady supply of electricity? In The City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau writes about a city that lives underground, only they don’t know that they live underground. The citizens of Ember have never heard of the sun, the moon, stars, plants, or animals. But if they don’t have the sun or moon, how do they see anything? Ember has an ancient generator in tunnels running under the city- the Pipeworks. This generator supplies electricity to all of the light bulbs that give light to Ember. Ember has a large stock of food and light bulbs to last them awhile- 220 years to be exact. After 220 years they would all escape because the mayors of the city have a secret box with instructions …show more content…

Well, the differences between the book and movie range from small, nitpicky details to important aspects of the book. For one, on assignment day everyone who got a job was supposed to be twelve, but in the movie Doon was seventeen and there were little five year olds running around with jobs. Also another age-related fault in the movie was when they made Looper look like he was forty, not fifteen, and dating Lizzie. Besides age, the movie also cut out important scenes to show just how severe the power outages and supply scarcities were, such as the part when Lina was buying color pencils and Poppy got lost during a blackout. The movie also made Ember look like it had more futuristic things than it should have had. In movie Ember, Pipeworks laborers had hats with lights on them that could connect to electricity, but no movable light source was found in the books. Instead of having a complicated lock on the box with the instructions, the box looked computerized. As a replacement for a supply room, the movie had conveniently lockers that could transform into boats. It had bugs and parasites, such as the octo-rat-thing, hiding around corners that could not be found in the book. With all those differences, it only makes sense the book fans are

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