The City of Ember

“Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.” (xi) This shows the contrast between the White City and the Black City. One, perfect, beautiful, magical, the other dark, filthy, evil. The two work together yet against each other in the battle to win over the hearts of the people who visit, and those who decide to stay

of Ember. City of Ember was written by Jeanne Duprau. The City of Ember book was about a

The City of Ember film and the novel was very action packed and interesting. The novel The City of Ember was written by Jeanne DuPrau. The City of Ember is about a boy named Doon and a girl named Lina who are trying to escape a old run down city. They escape and write a note to the other people in the city so they can escape. The City of Ember has many similarities and differences between the novel and the film; however the novel was a more entertaining experience.

Through this book, an average American high school student can learn academically through this book. This book teaches the reader about different forms of perspective. This book is told through each character’s perspective and can be seen as a learning tool for young writers. In addition to the perspectives, another benefit of reading this book is the literary devices used through it. For example, a common literary device that can be found throughout the story is the use of cliffhangers. They leave the reader in suspense and they often happen at the end of chapters. The story features many diverse squads of soldiers and their experiences are split into chapters. The use of cliffhangers leaves the reader waiting for their favorite character’s story to come back. Finally, the reader can take organization skill from this book. Throughout this story, the events of different characters happen at the same time and Mark Bowden divides the experiences through the chapters. A high school student can take this style of writing and utilize it throughout their literature. As well as teaching a student academically, the story provides social benefits.

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

The learning activity chosen is for year 3 students, having the children chose a book they have read and enjoyed and get them to write up a book report detailing the Main characters, what happens at the start of the book, middle of the book and at the end along with the child’s personal connection with the book, what they think may happen to the characters after the story has finished and if they like the book or not and if they would recommend it to others. They will need to use the form provided to describe the main characters in the books and give an overview of what happens in the start, middle and end of the book. The children will also be required to explore the personal connection they have with the book and what they thought of the

In addition to mirroring life, the Sea of Flames sets the stage for Doerr’s most pervasive yet inconspicuous analogy. When asked what he wants readers to take away from his novel, Doerr replies “that war is more complicated than they [the readers] might have thought, that there were civilians on both sides making really complicated moral decisions, [...] [that] little miracles” sprouted in the least expected of places (Schulman 27). The Sea of Flames is a central messenger for this theme at individual points of the novel but also in its overarching structure. The reader is first introduced to the Sea of Flames when it is housed at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, marked only by “an iron door with a single keyhole,” a series ending with a “thirteenth [...] no bigger than a shoe.” (Doerr 19-20). All the Light We Cannot See is partitioned into fourteen fragments- but it is labeled zero through thirteen. Just as passing through each door brings one closer to the gem, Doerr seeks to guide his reader through the locked gates of compassion and conflict to arrive at his own gem, which is revealed after passing through the thirteenth gate, into the last chapter of the novel, as Marie-Laure contemplates all the invisible electromagnetic waves, “ten thousand I miss yous, fifty thousand I love yous” passing “over the scarred and ever-shifting landscapes.” Transient messages connecting ephemeral people who eventually fall away, like the Sea of Flames, and “rise again

Do you like mysterious books? If you do, then The City of Ember is the book for you. The City of Ember is about a girl and a boy named Lina and Doon who were not friends at first, but then became best friends. Then they found a set of instructions to get out of Ember and figure the the words out because their city was dying. After, they find a huge room full of boats to ride down the river to get out of Ember. At the end they get out of Ember. First I thought that The City of Ember was about saving the city, now I know it’s way more than that. I now know that the novel is about using teamwork to accomplish goals. Lina and Doon exhibit teamwork throughout the novel because they worked together through the whole book to accomplish a goal by figuring out the words to the instructions and finding all the boats and saving the people of Ember.

First to understand more about the novel and its author, Erich Maria Remarque, it would be helpful to learn about his life. Erich was born on June 22, 1898 (internet source 4) in the town of Osnabruck Germany. He was born into a poor family to his father, Peter Maria Kramer, and mother, Anna Marie Kramer (internet source 5). His father was a bookbinder while Erich was a kid (internet source 5). He also had 2 other siblings and his family as a whole moved at least 11 during his childhood. To say Erich had a turbulent childhood would be an understatement; he grew up in circumstances most people could not even begin

This city is fully steeped in darkness, from the looks of the place. It wouldn’t surprise me if the sun doesn’t even end up rising. Everything around me is withered and wasted, even the trees in this park, which no one bothers to tend to anymore. This place is no better than Galicia, which is practically a lost cause now.

Most people who have read the book may wonder what happened after Doon and Lina got above ground and what they are doing? Or even what is going on down in the city or even if someone got Doon and Lina’s message about the exit and what they are doing about it. The City of Ember is by Jeanne Duprau and is about these two kids named Lina and Doon. Lina found instructions about on how to possibly leave the city.

In The City of Ember, the setting if more of a dreary, dystopian community that is slowly collapsing. The reason it’s dystopian is because it is a city full of fear that the lights may never come back on, as they turn flicker, blackout, and turn back on. For example, DuPrau writes about the blackouts occurring and saying that the people of Ember believe there is nothing else out there in the vast darkness, it’s only Ember. The people of Ember were supposed to leave after 200-220 years. Yet, this didn’t happen as the cycle, where the instructions on how to get out of Ember was being passed down from mayor to mayor, was broken. The generator which runs the city is falling apart causing many blackouts to happen from time-to-time. In the novel,

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

In this paper I will discuss and explain anatomy of a crime decline in New York City as well as if in these days can we say that the city is safe. Purpose of this book " The City That Become Safe " written by Franklin E. Zimring is to show us how crime rate changed during 1990 to 2009. According to author this book presents a detailed profile of New York City crime over 20 years period. Book provides the vital statistics of the crime drop by type of crime, by borough, and by year. There are two reasons that such exhaustive detail is required as a beginning to the study. First, the size and the length of the drop are without precedent in the recorded history of American urban crime. The second reason that the details of the crime decline are needed is as a road map for explaining what changes in the city and its government might have caused this epic decline. The more we know about the specific character of the decline- when it happened, where it happened, which offenses- the better our capacity for sorting through different theories of what caused the drop. In addition, shifts the focus from the two decades of the decline to an assessment of current conditions in the city. How safe is New York City?.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of war among a maturing nation of children, thereby creating a theme of Bildungsroman in the novel Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi. Bildungsroman, as defined by literarydevices.net: “a special kind of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main character from his or her youth to adulthood.” Within this graphic novel, the author portrays the concept of aging during a period of civil/political crisis, perhaps a foreign topic for yourself, however, Satrapi recalls her childhood trauma in order for you to gain insight into a world previously unknown. Her tale, being divided as two separate graphic novels, chronicles her growth on more than a