City of Ember

Often times people describe the end of the world as the sky falling down or the sun never rising. But would that still be so bad if the dark was all you ever knew? Perhaps The City Of Ember—a 270 page long dystopian fantasy novel by Jeanne Duprau—could help you figure out your answer. The book was published by Yearling in May, 2003. This novel is set in (you guessed it) a city called Ember, where the sky is black and there is no sun. The only source of light for the people living there is the streetlights, which are only lit during the daytime. The beginning of the book is during the 541th year of Ember’s existence. They don’t keep time with months in Ember, simply the year. The main characters in The City Of Ember are Lina Mayfleet and Doon…

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau is a science fiction novel about a post apocalyptic city called Ember, that is under the earth's crust. The people who live in this city have never seen the outside world and only know what was left for them by “the builders”. Ember is run by a generator but it is beginning to fail. There are blackouts and the city is beginning to feel anxious, and they are trying to figure out how to solve it. Lina and her friend Boon are looking to save Ember with a document…

In City of Ember, a key image is found in the setting. The sky is dark, and the lamps cast a yellowish glow on the run down city. This image is significant because it displays the gloomy, bleak mood that the story conveys to readers. It also shows that the city is decaying and becoming worse because there are shortages of supplies and the blackouts are increasing. In addition, the characters are affected in the setting because, without lights, they won’t be able to survive. Jeanne DuPrau…

In The City of Ember, irony was common throughout the whole novel. It is evident when Doon discovered that “‘The mayor has a secret storeroom in the pipe works’” (158). The mayor and Looper were working together to steal all the supplies in Ember so that they would not die out along with all the other people in Ember when the supplies run out. The mayor would be living a life of luxury with Looper until he, too, eventually die. This selfish, greedy behavior does not belong to a good mayor. A…

Now, in the dystopian society of The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau the society itself almost mimics the real world issues of totalitarianism and corrupt government all too well. As the society is built on unnatural light and are lead to believe that there is no natural light and from the city there is nothing but darkness. As the mayor says “There is nothing but darkness from left to right forever and forever.”(26) This mimics the ways of totalitarianism in society as part of its control is…

Figurative Language: Irony- The City of Ember In The City of Ember, irony occurs all throughout the novel. One such instance is when Lina and Doon discover the mayor’s secret storeroom in the Pipeworks: “‘The mayor has a secret treasure room in the Pipeworks’” (158). Doon had been curious and wondered if this room he found deep within the Pipeworks might be a way out and brought Lina with him to investigate. Shocked when Lina remembers the message she had given to the mayor from Looper, the…

Mayfleet overcome these significantly serious problems in Jeanne Duprau’s novel, “The City of Ember”. At the beginning of the novel, Lina Mayfleet was an etiquette young girl who lived with her grandma,“Granny”, and her baby sister,“Poppy”. They lived in a small apartment that was once owned by one of her ancestors who was the mayor in a doomed city called “City of Ember”. In the city of Ember, when children reach the age of twelve, they were old enough to work. Lina preferred working as a…

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…

Plato’s Cave Allegory in City of Ember The secrets of the real world lie buried underground, hidden in a secret box; a box that only Lena has access to. In this movie, City of Ember, Lena and Dune uncover a round map that may lead them out of their underground life. It is during their trek to find the truth that I discover many similarities between the plot and Plato’s metaphysical views. There are many instances where the theory of forms is present. In addition to a metaphysical comparison,…

That was until her ex boyfriend Chase that she was still in love with that had left her to be a soldier came up to her and told her to stop fighting. Her whole body shut down and then Ember was hit repeatedly by the other soldier. Then thrown into the van and took away without saying where she was going, where her mom was going. It was as if they could just pick up anyone and throw them any where they wanted. All Ember wanted to know is if her mom was okay and where she was…