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.
Throughout the novel Doon never gives up and always wants to reach his goal. This pushes him to strive to be the best that he can be and work to get Lina,other and him out of The City of Ember. Lina and Doon went into the pipeworks and were slowly descending the rongs of the ladder to a lower surface where the