The City Of Ember By Jeanne Duprau

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.

The city is short on food so the people of Ember are skinny, but not for the major. Its suspicious, because the major is more heavier set that everyone else. Doon and Lina find out that he is hording food for himself and causing the people to starve. He is the first major to not discover the secrets of Ember. He abuses his power as mayor and is very mean.

Granny Mayfleet- She is the grandmother to Lina and Poppy. She has her own yarn shop to contribute to Embers society. Lina said earlier in the book that at one point, her shop was tidy and every ball of yarn was in its place, but lately shes been losing it mentally. Slowly, she is becoming crazier and crazier. Because of this, Lina has to be more of a parent role for Poppy because she cant be a caregiver. She is also the reason why Lina found the box, because Granny was tearing up her apartment and it showed up.

Poppy- Poppy is Linas little sister. Poppy is a little trouble maker. When she was out with Lina, she took it upon herself to venture off by herself. Lina is always trying to find her. This is a result of her growing up independent. She isn't a major character, but she is important to Lina. She is one of three who go out into the real