City of Ember Essays

  • Dystopia In The City Of Ember

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    The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau shows the view of a Dystopia. The city is dark and occasionally has blackouts. But the streets are not chaotic. The people of Ember accept that. It is almost like it is their way of life. I'm glad that the world I live in is stable. The city was built underground. I appreciate that I have an independence that makes sure I can choose my own fate. In the book, she says that the lights would flicker on and off. The lights in Ember are not that bright. If the world

  • In The City Of Ember Analysis

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    In The City Of Ember By Jeanne DuPrau The author created an underground city and it would be hard for someone to live there. The setting helped set up the problem in the story. Just imagine living in an old city and never knowing what is going to happen. In the book there is a city that is underground called Ember, and it is run on one generator for the city. There is a generator room around the middle of the city. They have everything in the city like genral stores and many natural resources like

  • The City Of Ember By Jeanne Duprau

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    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

  • Jeanne Duprau's The City Of Ember

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    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

  • Examples Of Fear In The City Of Ember

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    In The City of Ember almost every citizen has the same fear that the generator will soon stop working for their town underground and the lights will go out with their dwindling supply of just about everything. But these three characters go beyond a simple fear of when the power will go out and act on those fears. The mayor of the city and his reaction to if power was lost is different from many and has a deeper fear hunger mixed with greed. Lina Mayfleet cared for the town and for her younger sister

  • Book Report On The City Of Ember By Jeane Duprau

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    In The City of Ember there are kids that are worried about the city running out of resources. In this book you will learn about them finding a secret message that they need to unlock to get out of the city that is running out of resources. In The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau The theme of fear is shown through Sadge Merrall using Dialogue, Sadge Merrall running away (Actions), and Symbolism. Jeanne Duprau uses dialogue to show fear. In this scene, he is going into the darkness with no light. He

  • Ember City Case Study

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    Ember City was built and not to be left for 200 to 220 years. The mayor is provide with instruction of what to do when the 200 years or more are over. The box has a timed lock and is to be opened when the time comes.The box will be passed down from mayor to mayor over the time period. As the time went on people got desperate and grew tired of waiting. The seventh mayor was sick and took a hammer to the box trying to get it opened, but he was growing weak and failed to open it. The year is coming

  • Differences Between The Movie And The City Of Ember

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    The book and film the City of Ember used dystopian fiction efficiently. Because they used motifs from dystopian stories. The novel City of Ember is written by Jeanne DuPrau and was published in 2003. Soon after in 2008 the movie was produce and Directed by Gil Kenan and Written by Caroline Thompson. The main characters in the flim and the book are Lina Mayfleet, Doon Harrow, and Mayor Cole. Overall The book and movie have some differences but they mainly focus on dystopian fiction. The film

  • City Of Ember Hero Quotes

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    Doon Harow from the novel, City Of Ember is not how he seems and is not a hero. The first reason Doon isn't a hero is because he has a bad temper and can get angry very easily. In the City Of Ember, when you are 13, the mayor comes to the class and then you draw a card from a bag containing the job you will have for the rest of your life. While most people either get the job they want or the one they don’t, none of them show disgrace and have a bad temper, until it’s Doons turn. The author stated;

  • Ember: A Dystopian Society

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    Society- nothing is churning. In the book The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau she indicates that the City of Ember is a dystopian society. The job structure in Ember is a really uncommon way to work, and the lack of knowledge is gruesome, they know nothing! The resources are so low that people find it painstakingly hard to live. Mostly everyone is the same except Doon and Lina. First of all, the job structure in Ember is a roucous. Once the students of Ember are 12 years old, they have to start working

  • Examples Of Irony In The City Of Ember

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    novel, The City of Ember. An example of this is when Lina and Doon discover the Mayor’s secret: “The mayor has a secret treasure room in the Pipeworks”(158). Lina is a messenger and gave a message from looper to the Mayor that was odd. It said, “Delivery at eight. From Looper”(31).Doon not long after finding a secluded door in the pipeworks. It was locked of course but when he showed it to Lina they saw a person come out of it. The irony in this is that the Mayor is supposed to be saving Ember, instead

  • Argumentative Essay: The City Of Ember

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    With little light, little people to rely on, and you're told there is no way out. Nevertheless, based on the book The City of Ember, a new thrilling and stomach turning ride that you will never long to escape. This state-of-the-art attraction is intended to give you the 4D experience. It is intended to feel as if you live in the environment of ember. Is there a way out of ember? Will you glance upon the light at the end of the tunnel? Will you escape before the light dims out? Imagine this

  • City Of Ember Book Reports

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    read for my January book report was the City Of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau and it is science fiction. The reason I chose this book for my report was because it is a very interesting book with many weird events and details that makes you never want to stop reading . The book makes you feel like you're one of the characters in the book. For many many centuries a very energetic generator has been giving light to an town underground called the City Of Ember. The city is only timed to last 200 years by the

  • The People Of Sparks Compare And Contrast

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    sequel to “The City of Ember” and continues the story of the citizens of the underground city of Ember as they emerge to the surface of a post-apocalyptic Earth. Led by young teenagers, Doon and Lina, the citizens walked for several days before they reached a village called Sparks who agrees to provide them with food and shelter. The Emberities learn from the people of Sparks that several generations before the world had been afflicted by widespread disease and war, leaving the largest cities abandoned

  • Light And Light In The Shawshank Redemption

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    The element of lighting is a sophisticated element to a movie. It has the power to control what you see and also overwhelm you when it needs to. During my discovery of this movie, I found that colors told the story just as much as the dialogue. It just goes to show that the most significant films cover all the ends of telling a story through the medium of film. Now the fun part, the analyst of The Shawshank Redemption’s use of light and color in painting the picture of its theme of hope. “Studies

  • Similarities Between Powqqatsi And The City Of Ember

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    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. Both works of art represent the idea

  • City Of Ember Book Critique

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    be depth in not only the character but also the setting and throughout the entire story. There needs to be something underlying that gives the reader a sense of why the story is happening as well as where it may go. The subtext in the book City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau is the main thing that I took from analyzing this work. The way that the author gives us hints of things to come helps to know that this is what kept my attention as a reader. This is what made me pick this book specifically because

  • Themes Of The City Of Ember By Jeane Duprau

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    “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. The first theme is “be carful who you trust” Lina and Doon trusted the mayor and

  • City Of Ember: Book And Movie Comparison

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    “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.

  • Summary Of The City Of Ember By Jeane Duprau

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    The City Of Ember Author: Jeanne DuPrau Made by: Uddam Gill 7B About the city of ember The title of my book is the city of ember. It is a fiction book by Jeanne duprau that contains 270 pages. The main characters are Lina mayfleet, doon harrow, mayor cole, looper windly, and granny. Lina mayfleet loves to run and hopes to become a messenger and draws about how the outside world might look like, she also must take care of her sister poppy. Doon harrow is serious and usually focusing