City of Ember

In the book The City of Ember, a character Doon lives in a city without sunlight and supplies are low. The City of Ember is a city built underground where supplies are running low and their light source is running out. Doon is a 12 year old kid in this city. In The City of Ember, the author uses word choice and imagery to help the readers visualize that Doon is very short-tempered, serious, and sensitive. First, Doon is a very short-tempered kid. For example “But Don didn’t take things lightly”.

Germany, China, Sierra Leone, and the fictional society of Ember, are all examples of how once great societies fall. All of these societies fell due to corrupt leaders, resource scarcity, and sickness. The society of Ember, China, Sierra Leone, and Germany, have fallen due to corrupt leader, resource scarcity, and sickness. The city is experiencing blackouts and the mayor isn’t trying to resolve the problem and tell the citizens of Ember the truth. “And the lights flickered, and flickered again

world Gabe was to grow up in had he not taken him. A world of perfection in the people in The Giver was to take away pain and violence. Although pain and violence were gone, so is love and happiness. They created a world without emotion. The City of Ember describes a destructive and destitute future for the world. Doon realizes the decaying of his world because of the

will have advantages and disadvantages for an EMBERS expansion in both cities. Advantages: Raising the minimum wage will likely result in the loss of jobs for minimum wage workers. This will grow the labour pool available to EMBERS. If the increase in minimum wage exceeds inflation, workers who benefit from an increase in minimum wage will have an income surplus. Temporary workers who use EMBERS’ services would be included in this group. This helps EMBERS accomplish their mission to provide support

Before reading “The People of Sparks,” I was very skeptical on how the book would compare to “City of Ember” which was the first book in the series. But after reading the book I was very pleased with how Jeanne Duprau developed the main characters by giving them realistic struggles like how Doon was struggling to control his anger issues, and how Lina’s curiosity and rash decision making still tended to cause trouble. Which leads to the next reason why enjoyed the book which was because it stays

As an example Doon is very unhappy when he gets a job as messenger because he says that the city if falling apart, is in bad condition, and that people should do something about it. Doon being unhappy about this is proved by Du Prau, when she writes, “The lights go out all the time now! And the shortages, there’s shortages of everything” (13)

In order for this to work, we would divide the city into four quadrants. In each quadrant we would have a certain number of people working there and we would put one central base for each region. This would help the messengers that live on the other side of the city, by preventing them from walking all the way across the city to get to the command center for the messengers. The messengers that live in that region would report to the

1871 Great Chicago Fire In 1871 Chicago [ The Windy City} was a city that was more than ready to burn it was one of the most flammable time in Chicago history. This time in history was one of Chicago's most devastating times that chicago has ever.This fire destroyed the majority of all of chicago. In Jim Murphy’s book The Great Fire chapter 1 “A City Ready To Burn” talks about this topic and how Chicago was ready to burn. In 1871 Chicago the city was literally almost all made of wood. There were

he went. He reached the top of a small hill, the whole town awake with the sound of home and bustling citizens before him. He started down the hill, then jumped back. A small patch of skin on his arm stung. A single ember had fallen from the sky. ⋯ Everyday Lum would run into the city. It was like a second home to him, with its noisy avenues and buzzing lights. He ran along the streets. The strangers walked along, staring ahead as Lum weaved past. Lum would count the birds, and the people would count

Accordingly, the city encounters blackouts throughout the book: “There had been five blackouts in a row during the week. They were all fairly short—the longest was four and a half minutes”(157). Jeanne DuPrau writes this indicating that the city is falling apart. Doon is involved in this problem by exclaiming a point to the mayor: “‘The blackouts...the lights go out all the time