City Of Ember Movie And Book Comparison Essay

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What if you lived in a cave that they called their city and their lights flickered on and off every day? The City of Ember, by Jeanne Duprau. Two twelve year old kids named Lina and Doon are trying to find a way out of the City of Ember. They find a box that has instructions to get out of Ember that the builders wrote but most of the page is faded so they can’t read the whole page. On their way out they have lots of obstacles. The City of Ember has many similarities and differences between the novel and the film; however the movie was more entertaining.
There is lots of similarities between the book and the movie. Some of them are: In the book Lizzie's boyfriend (Looper) was giving her food out of the storeroom, and Looper also did the same thing in the film. Looper and the mayor had a
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In the movie at the very end when Lina and Doon are about to get in the boat the wheel would not come up so they couldn’t get out but then there was a big wave that put them over the wheel.
These events make the movie better because it gives Lina and Doon more obstacles they have to get by before they can get out of the city. There are lots of differences and similarities between the movie and the book; but the movie was more entertaining. In the book lizzie dropped the groceries that Looper gave her, She also dropped the groceries that Looper gave her in the movie.
There are lots of differences and similarities between the movie and the book; but the movie was more entertaining. In the book lizzie dropped the groceries that Looper gave her, She also dropped the groceries that Looper gave her in the movie. In the movie Looper and Mayor Cole had a deal about the storeroom, and at the end of the movie Mayor Cole went into the storeroom and would not let Looper in and then locked the door then the animal in the pipeworks got in the storeroom and when Mayor Cole went in their the animal ate

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