If that doesn't sound like a recipe for some critical love, then we don't know what will. And since the people of Ember don't know what's been lost, how can they begin to solve the mystery of their existence? Life in Ember goes on the way it always has (well, except for the terrifying disruptions of electricity and the shortages of supplies). They're literally and figuratively in the dark. It turns out that Ember was constructed to be the last refuge of humans should disaster ruin the world… but none of the current residents of Ember know any of this. How's that? Well, the survivors of the apocalypse don't know that they're living in a post-apocalyptic era. But what DuPrau does with the doomsday scenario gives this book a unique twist. Sure, it's a simple enough premise-a classic doomsday scenario. And as the electricity begins to fail, and the food stores dwindle, Lina and Doon must try to put the puzzle pieces together and figure out what's going wrong before it's too late to save their city. In fact, a functioning Ember is all they have ever known. Nobody knows why the cans of food are running out. Nobody knows how the generator works to keep the lights on-or why it's failing. Nobody in Lina and Doon's generation has ever known anything other than life in their city, ringed by absolute darkness outside its borders. Yep, things in Ember are not quite what they seem to be. Youngsters Lina and Doon have guessed that something is wrong because the lights are dimming, the supplies are running out, and there seems to be no escape. Jeanne DuPrau's 2003 young adult novel The City of Ember paints a vivid picture of life in an underground city (named-you guessed it-Ember). Rats the size of houses, and rocks as sharp as knives.Are you afraid of the dark? Be glad you don't live in Ember, then. What does Sadge Merrall say is in the Unknown Regions? He says there is darkness and monsters. Who does Lina buy the colored pencils from? She bought the colored pencils from Looper, the guy who sent a message to the mayor the very first day of Lina’s job as a messenger.ġ5. Why don’t the colored pencils bring Lina happiness? They don’t because she was so focused on the pencils that she forgot about Poppy and she had wandered away without Lina noticing.ġ4. How does Lna find Poppy? Doon had found her earlier and Lina was asking if anyone had seen her and Doon saw and gave her Poppy.ġ3. Why does Lina have trouble finding Poppy after she wanders away from the store? She has trouble because after she wandered away, there was a very long blackout and she couldn’t see anything.ġ2. Why does Clary give Lina a bean seed? She gave it to her so she could grow it and maybe find a clue in it about answers somewhere outside of Ember.ġ1. Why does Sadge come to the greenhouse in a state of panic? He went into the Unknown Regions and it made him go crazy from the dark and the rocks.ġ0. What kinds of problems has Clary been having? Since when? The potatoes have obtained a new disease and are bad ever since Lina’s dad died.ĩ. Why does the newly named job of trash sifter cause Lina to worry? She worries because the city needs more things collected by them because they’re running out of supplies.Ĩ. The information might be the long-lost instructions for the people in the city of ember.ħ. Who was Lina’s great-great-grandfather? Why might this information be important? He was the seventh mayor of the city. Murdo to check up on her grandmother during the day? She asked because grandma forgets a lot, and she just wants her to make sure that everything is alright.Ħ. Also, his dad told him that he would do great things one day, and he hadn’t done anything great, so he wanted to.ĥ. Why is it important to Doon to be the one to save the city? It’s important because he wanted his dad to be proud of him. What kind of talent is Doon particularly proud of? He was proud of his mechanical talent.Ĥ. Why is Doon’s first look at the generator disappointing to him? It’s disappointing because he thought just by looking at it, he could figure out how it works, but it was about 2 stories high and just a big, vibrating thing.ģ. How does working as a Pipeworks laborer convince Doon that the city is in even worse shape than he had suspected? The water system breaking down proved that it was in worse shape than he thought.Ģ.
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