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City Of Ember: Movie And Book Comparison

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All of the people in The City of Ember are stuck underground! The city is very dark and scary! They have never seen the sun before. Jeanne DuPrau really writes the book, The City of Ember, to make people thankful that they live in the real world and not underground. This is a really bad situation and Lina and Doon need to find a way out. The City of Ember has many similarities and differences between the novel and the film; however the movie was more entertaining experience.
The book and movie have a lot of similarities. In the book and the movie Poppy eats the instructions, but if Poppy wouldn’t have eaten the instructions it would have made it a lot easier to find their way out. If they would have been able to have some help from the people that might would have know more and they could have had some help while they were trying to put it together. This part is really sad!!! In both the movie and the book they didn’t have enough meds to give Granny, so she died and before she died her mom and dad died. They had to go and live with Mrs. Murdo. It would have been easier if Lina’s parents wouldn’t have died they would have went all together to the new world and they would have had a little bit of “adult help”. When they got to the “real city” the adults could have helped them when it was dark and they couldn’t see. Lastly, when Lina saw …show more content…

In the movie there was a lot more stuff going on and everything happened a lot faster. In the book it took so much longer for everything to happen, and in the movie it felt more “real”. In the movie we could actually see how dark and scary the city really was. The city was really dark and they had a lot of blackouts and they were running out of lots of stuff. Lastly, the mayor got killed and that’s what he deserved. He was taking from The City of Ember, and so they were running out, because he was taking it all. All in all, the movie was a lot better then the

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