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The City Of Ember Foreshadowing Analysis

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Foreshadowing is hidden throughout the novel, The City of Ember. It first appears when Lina finds instructions, and begins to decrypt them. Giving readers their first hint of what might happen, DuPrau writes, “She stared at the very first word at the top of the page, ‘Instru,’ and she suddenly knew what it must be. She’d seen it often enough at school. It had to be the beginning of ‘Instructions.’” (95) Lina’s essential discovery is one of many events that foreshadow Doon and Lina’s escape from Ember, since in the prelude we are told that instructions would be left to exit Ember. In addition, the box containing the instructions was passed down for generations, and yet Lina was the one to find it, committing her to a mission she then has the

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