Lies In The City Of Ember Analysis

When Lina is moved from her home to a labor camp, her world is unraveled. Lina is placed in a train with terrible living conditions and is transported to a beet farm in Altai (Sepetys, 2011, p. 105). Although the labor is demanding, and the guards are cruel, she befriends Andrius. This shows that even in the most unlikely situations, people are able to trust others. When she gets moved from the first labor camp to one in the arctic circle, the climate change also challenges Lina. The labor becomes harder and they have to build their own shelters this time. It is here that Lina is her most

The theme in the story The City of Ember is shown early on in the book and it is represented by using author's craft. The author's craft that is being used in the book is figurative language, such as similes and metaphors. She uses figurative language in many different ways that can support the theme. For example “Fear had settled over the city. Lina felt it like a cold chill” (Duprau 85). This is a good example of figurative language and it also supports the theme. This is a good example, because it is describing how bad the city is and also how Lina realized she needed to take charge in saving the city. Duprau also uses another good example of figurative language towards the beginning also. For instance it states in the book “Once they are out the door, Lizzie said goodbye and scurried away as if Linas bad luck were a disease that she might catch” (Duprau 58). This is a good representation because it is leading up to the

With death being a major theme in the novel it makes it harder for Lina to survive. She never gets critically sick, but she knows that at any second it could be her that

Throughout the misfortunes of their entire society not believing in them, and even to the point where when Lina and Doon found out that their Mayor was taking more supplies, and giving up on trying to fix the city, and told people who thought that they would help, and having that turned back onto them and almost leading to them getting arrested; Lina can still believe that there were people watching over her, even in the darkness. Throughout all of the negativity, even at such a young age, she shows such a strong

Some people decide to take different stand points in an argument and some decide to stay neutral. Is it better to choose whether to be an oppressor, victim, or to be neutral? Elie Wiesel once swore to never be silent and to speak up when humanity was suffering, to take a stand and choose a facet because neutrality would favor the oppressor causing the victim to be tormented. He explains how when people do not take a valid standpoint for what is right that the tormentor does not see what they are doing wrong since no stands are being taken. I personally agree with Wiesel, people should not have to suffer because the people of the society do not want to take a stand and subsist silence. If communities were being tormented they would want someone

First of all, in the beginning of the novel, Lina finds love in her relationships which helps her defeat all pain. As she suffers traumatic events, Lina finds hope through her friends and family, allowing her to survive horrendous labor camps. Additionally, expressing their strong connection, Lina also learns to cling onto her friends and family mentally when they physically aren’t there. When Lina gets seperated from her boyfriend, Andrius, he gives Lina a stone to remember him by. While feeling alone one night, Lina says,”’I will see you...I will.’ I reached into my pocket and squeezed the stone” (336). This stone symbolizes their love and hope to just see each other again. Without this stone to hold onto, Lina would probably give up. Then, soon after Lina found out her father died in prison, which built onto all the stress and suffering in her life. Before

In East of Eden, John Steinbeck reinforces the theme of timshel—”thou mayest”—by paradoxically showing how characters fail to face their fates. These characters are seemingly preordained to follow a certain path as they each fall prey to fate. With every darkening failure in the story, there becomes a brighter hope that someone will break the cycle of sin by choosing to live freely. Charles and Adam Trask are unmistakably bound to the story of Cain and Abel. Through their names and their actions, Steinbeck shows how these two brothers fail to control fate.

Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel, a Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, acknowledged that “There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention: victims of hunger, of racism, and political persecution, writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right. Human rights are being violated on every continent. More people are oppressed than free.” When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, they believed that the Germans were “racially superior”and that Jews(their biggest enemy) were to be called “inferior.” As the “Final Solution” came, no Jew was safe. The Germans figured every way to get rid of them. One single gunshot wasn't enough. During this

“Is there, then an evil that is innate, that is the little piece of monster in all of us.” (Cusatis). Every person has two sides, no one is completely good or completely evil. In the East of Eden, John Steinbeck uses a biblical metaphor to illustrate the innate good and evil that humans encounter. The novel includes several characters that are purely evil or do evil deeds. The Trask family is directly correlated to the Garden of Eden and other biblical narratives. “Steinbeck puts more into his stories than Genesis 4” (Fontenrose). Steinbeck illustrates the concepts of good and evil, family, and love to describe the frailties of the human experience.

To begin, in the first part of the story, a city called Omelas and its inhabitants are described as one happy community, but a negative connotation on the city and its people is implied as the story progresses.”They

She is being raised in a world where women are expected to suffer silently and to be at the mercy of their men. However, men were not expected to return this slave-like behavior for the women. This setting of the novel allows the reader to see exactly how treacherous life can be. This suffering is so present in Estrella’s family’s lives, yet she somehow is able to bring the family along no matter how difficult the situation may be. She is still trapped in between two very different worlds: "She tried to remember which side she was on and which side of the wire mesh she was safe in" (59). Her mother may be taken over by a world of suffering, but she is not so beaten that she cannot pass some of her fighting

It looked like the sun had given up on trying to break through the iron curtain of clouds that it decided to lounge behind them. As we nervously walked towards the battle of our lives, the castle silhouetted behind us like someone faintly saying goodbye. The narrow barren streets were scattered with muculent mud and broken decomposed parts of the castle lay beside it reminding us that danger was slowly approaching. The street was a skeleton, stripped of its flesh. All that remains was the broken parts of the concrete structure. Quiet and derelict. The street was a river of the rusted burnt charcoal like concrete parts of the castle. Perhaps years back this street was immersed in pools of yellow light from the assaulted street lamps. Walking past the street lamps made the scent of burnt smoke go inside me like a barren soul. The street lamps were concealing us and we were inferior to the street lamps. The street lamps were covering us with darkness reminding us of the danger ahead of

The author uses raw descriptive words such as “iron,” “tarry,” and “tin,” to display this city as superficial. The city is just made out of these substances that the people have made these buildings out of. These substances all conduct heat and present this madness and anger of the man in the poem. These materials present a manmade structure that displays the city as shallow.

The City of Ember describes a destructive and destitute future for the world. Doon realizes the decaying of his world because of the

The movie “City of God” has many examples of sociological theories of crime and deviance. Some of the major theories I noticed throughout the movie were the functionalist theory, including examples of relative depravation, as well as the interactionist theory, including differential association and labeling. There was also evidence of the conflict theory and the control theory throughout the film.