“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. The new world they find is very different from what they’re used to, they toss a message down a long tunnel where Ember is located and telling the people of Ember …show more content…
And afterward, they switch jobs and go off to them the next day. The scene is the same because it is in the school …show more content…
It chases the two men who come in Lina and Doon’s direction and then, chases them. Doon climbs into an opening leading to Looper’s storeroom and helps Lina up. However, in the novel, it does not even mention a mole at all. This should not change because it makes the film more exciting, because near the ending of the film, the mole gets into the mayor’s secret room and kills the mayor. This scene should not change because it is very common to find rats, moles, and shrews in dark, wet, areas of pipeworks. It makes the scene interesting because when the two other men walk into view, they drop their pails and run away at the sight of the huge mole bombarding the pipeworks. Another difference between the novel and film is when Lina and Doon are throwing the rock with a letter down the hole to Ember, the novel says it hits Mrs. Murdo on the head, however, in the film it lands in front of Doon’s father who picks it up and unwraps it. This should not change because if Mrs. Murdo and Mr. Harrow had not found the package, they would never have known about the way out of