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City Of Ember: A Literary Analysis

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In the City of Ember, the setting decipts a dystopian, bleak world with no outside contact. For instance, the blackouts is one effect Du Prau writes about to picture the imagery in to the reader’s mind. Du Prau writes, “In the City of Ember, the sky is always dark ” (1). These blackouts are occuring because the generator is so old and is breaking down and the lack of supplies and resources that Ember has. Ember is dystopian because they are uneducaed, isolated, and have a corrupt governnment system who is taking all of their supplies from them. Du Prau wrote Ember to warn us about the future like the fact Ember is underground therfore they are hiding from something like an a epocolypse which can happen to us soon. Du Prau is also warning
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