City of Ember

The title of the book is The City of Ember, because the story is set in Ember, a small underground city. The city runs on light bulbs, because no natural light reaches the city. These lightbulbs represent ember, creating light in the dark. I think the author intended both children and adults to read The City of Ember. He wrote the story to inspire anyone to explore their world, and find ways to make it more efficient. Also he wanted to show that even children could make a tremendous difference

in the present. Two well-known young adult science fiction books are The Giver and The City of Ember. These 2 books have something going wrong in society and people go through challenges. In The Giver and The City of ember, there are 3 main elements for comparison. They are the Exposition, Community, and Resolution. In The giver when kids turn 12 they have a ceremony and get assigned a job. In The City of Ember they get their job by picking from a hat and don’t have a ceremony. They can not pick

deeper meaning in a story. “Jeanne Duprau”, the author of “The City of Ember” emphasizes darkness vs the light throughout the whole book. The author does this because the symbols hidden in the story, has a huge impact and role throughout it. In the story, the author uses both symbols light and darkness. The light represents life and hope for another world, while the darkness symbolizes fear and death. In the book, “The City of Ember,” the author uses the symbol light to show life and hope for another

The story begins with a prologue telling about the people who built Ember, and what happened before the present day. The builders were the ones who built the city of Ember, where most of the story’s beginning occurs. Since the city was built underground, resources wouldn’t last forever, so the builders created a chest that would open after a set amount of time. The chest was to be passed down from mayor to mayor, however one mayor was deathly sick and thought the chest contained something that could

you marry and how many kids you have. Imagery In The City of Ember the future is very bleak and lackluster. Blackouts and the depletion of necessary items such as light bulbs puts a really dark and broken down image in one’s head. The author, Jeanne DuPrau describes the city as falling apart and in need of repair: “They must not leave the city for at least 200 years” (1). By looking at this quotation, we can see that the people of Ember needed to leave around more than half a century ago because

Insightful questions: Why don’t the students get their own choice of jobs? The City of Ember isn't a well-developed city, if you compare Calgary to the City of Ember they don't have many jobs or crops because there's no sunlight or fresh air coming in the city. The types of jobs they have are jobs that help them survive or updated to the news around them such as the Messenger since they don't have computer or emails like nowadays they have people going around telling each and every address different

what we should do. Imagery- The City of Ember In The City of Ember, the setting depicts a bleak, underground, post-apocalyptic community. Also, the city of Ember isn’t in a good condition. For instance, Doon Harrow, one of the story’s main protagonists, exclaims that “the lights go out all the time...shortages of everything…” (13). The blackouts are occurring because the generator is in need of repair. The citizens of Ember have also been in the underground city for longer than the Builders thought

Compare & Contrast Essay Could you imagine living in a world underground that has no light and is losing resources very quickly by the day? Well, the City Of Ember by Jeanne Duprau will help you imagine that. The book, City of Ember was published in May 2003. Jeanne Duprau wrote this attention-grabbing book because she wanted to put the thought in our minds to not take the simple things like food, water, lights, and a roof over our head for granted. In this book the similarities outnumber the differences

The City of Ember and Eve are two novels written for a teenage audience that contain the common themes of hope, questioning authority and love. The idea of hope is explored more extensively in the city of ember as the two main characters search for a way to escape the city and look for a better place to live. In the novel eve the main character begins to question all that she believed in and was taught by figures of authority at her school. The idea of love is a common theme in both books, however

The City Of Ember by Jeanne Duprau is a 270 paged book. The genre of the book are post-apocalyptic, science fiction, and children's literature. According to kirkusreveiws.com The cliffhanger ending will leave readers clamoring for the next installment. This books intended audience is ranged from 8-9 and up because it has a lot of words that may be hard for little kids to say and understand. The main characters of the book are Doon Harrow, and Lina Mayfleet. Doon isn't that much of a talkative