“The City of Ember” by Jeane DuPrau is about a girl and a boy named Lina and Doon who are trying to find a way out of ember, wich is an under ground city. Lina and Doon have to follow directions that Lina’s little sister, Poppy, found in their closet. The two themes I came up with are “Be carful who you trust” and “kids can exside most expectations”. The themes are prsented by Lina, Doon, and the mayors actions.
In, We Have Taken a City, by H. Leon Prather Sr., we learn of the violence that occurred in Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898. Throughout the paper, Prather writes about the different aspects that ultimately caused the racial massacre. Prather makes an important claim in his short introduction about the events in Wilmington in 1898. He also makes several key points throughout the paper, one being that the racial massacre would not have occurred if it would not have been for the white supremacy campaign. He provides key information in his paper that supports the claim.
In The Fall of a City, written by Alden Nowlan, Teddy’s aunt and uncle are not good parents for him. In the story he is seemingly constantly picked at by his aunt and uncle (more so his uncle). His guardians also do not seem to take the time to understand their kid and resort to commenting on his “hobby”. Finally the most important reason that his aunt and uncle are not fit to parent him is the title itself “The Fall of a City”; the cumulative result of their poor parenting. Teddy’s parents are consistently, throughout the story, bullying him.
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau is about two kids Lina Mayfleet and Donn Harrow, who fight for survival in hopes to save their city from collapsing and destruction. The city was built because Earth was unsuitable to live in and would destroy all human civilization because natural disasters kept occurring. The City of Ember was built to protect the surviving people with a box timed at the exact date to open with instructions of how to leave in 200 years in the majors hands. Over years of generations of people in Ember, the box gets lost over time and is unable to give it to the next Mayor. It just so happens that Lina is related to the seventh major of Ember and that's when then box with the instructions went missing after he suddenly died.
Jeanne DuPrau’s novel, The City Of Ember, tells the story of two good friends who work together to try and escape, their home town, Ember. They face many challenges and problems that try to slow them down and make them fail their goal. For example Lina’s younger sister Poppy has no one to watch her and Lina is smart and thinks about that and solves another problem. Determination and intelligence make escape possible for Doon and Lina.
“The City of Ember” has many similarities and differences between film however, the movie was a more entertaining experience. The two brave and strong main characters, Lina and Doon, are assigned each other’s wished jobs on assignment day. After the assembly, Lina and Doon secretly switch their jobs as the next day they go off to each other’s new jobs, Lina as a messenger and Doon as a pipeworks worker. Together, they explore Ember and eventually find a way out in the pipeworks where Doon works. They take Poppy, Lina’s younger sister, and get into a boat made from one of the lockers.
There were thirteen American colonies split into three regions. These regions were the New England colonies, the Middle colonies and the Southern colonies. These colonies all came to America for different reasons, and their differences in regional culture still affect us today. However, despite their differences these colonies all had to depend on each other and came together in the end to make one nation. I will be discussing the three colonies and how they are similar and how they are different.
Powaqqatsi and The City of Ember Comparison It is a natural human philosophy to act like others in the environment we are living in. Some people may feel if one does not conform, they will be looked down upon by others. The movie Powaqqatsi directed by Goddfrey Reggio shows many scenes of how people's actions within a community revolve around conformity. The book The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau, also shows many examples of a society that is set in its ways.
The duo’s entire journey is, in fact, a seemingly endless series of obstacles which the Man and Boy must face. These obstacles range from cannibals slowly trekking down the road to Mother Nature itself. For example, the Man and Boy barely escape cannibalistic gangs both when a gang unexpectedly appears on the road and when the Man discovers the basement of one such gang packed with naked men and women. In addition, even after securing a source of food, such as when they find the bunker, the Man and Boy always face the potential of starvation and the freezing cold weather because the Man knows they cannot carry all the food they find and that they cannot stay in one location for an extended period of time. Moreover, on two occasions, once when the cannibalistic gang find their cart and once when the thief on the beach steals the cart, do the Man and Boy lose nearly everything they have (though, they eventually catch the beach thief and, to the Boy’s disappointment and sadness, the Man forces him to give them everything he has).
When Roscuro first sees the light, he wants its more than anything. “He let the light from the upstairs enter him and fill him. He gasped aloud at the wonder of it” (The Tale of Despereaux, 93). When Roscuro mentions Botticelli persuades him that rats do not belong in the light, this discourages Roscuro from going for
Ever so big. He saw it ... In the woods … He says the beastie came in the dark ... He still says he saw the beastie. It came to him and went away again an’ came back and wanted to eat him-- ...
He feels guilty, and the secret that he is hiding for so many times eats him away. He will finally die because of these dark feelings inside of him and his heart. Around the end, the guilt takes him over; that even outside seems dark and black (for example, dark weeds, or black weather). The “dark question” is show as the question that he keeps
The book that I chose for my book review is titled This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus Plenty of Valet Parking! - In America’s Gilded Capital by Mark Leibovich. Mark Leibovich, a correspondent for the New York Times, and former Washington Post gives American’s an inside look at the political agendas of individuals who run our nation during the presidential election from the years 2008-2012. His novel provides readers with the shockingly honest and upsetting reality of how and who our government is run by. Leibovich’s title derives from the many numerous names that relay to the “elite” member of D.C’s political system.
The darkness represents his ignorance and now that he understands the reason for the suffering of the natives, he is enlightened upon through knowledge. Despite his miraculous work, he still remains humble saying, “I am no saintly man.”
In “Acquainted with the Night”, it embodies the abyss of despair that the narrator finds themselves in. The poem centers on the qualities of the night, and the night’s defining characteristic is its never-ending darkness. The poem’s very title shows how deeply bogged down in darkness the narrator is; the speaker has, ironically, become friends with it. The motif of darkness manifests itself in other examples as well. The speaker writes, “I have outwalked the furthest city light,” showing that he or she has transcended the limits of a normal person’s misfortune and instead exposed himself to complete and utter desperation (3).
