Jonah+SCI+FI

="The City of Ember" by Jeanne Duprau=



** Verso: ** Lina Mayfleet and Doon Hardow have to work together to save Ember from darkness. The two encounter death, horrible lies, and amazing discoveries. The two 13 year old kids risk their lives for Ember. Will they succeed?

** Sci Fi main theme: ** In The City of Ember their generator is failing which is leading to total darkness. This is very scary. Times in Ember have never been worse. They are also running out of supplies. Starving and dying. Since they have run out of certain supplies before, some items that we use/eat every day, the younger generations have never heard of them. In some places of the world they don’t have a lot of clothes, food, and medicine. But since Ember is underground (which they don’t really know) they don’t have the sun. So when the lights go out for them they are out. When the power goes out in your house you probably have a flashlight, and if it’s during the day then you have the sun. Sadly in Ember they have neither.

** Main characters: ** The two main characters are Doon, and Lina. They each have their own problems. Lina’s is that her father and mother are both dead and now lives with her grandmother and baby sister. She is the head of that family, and she is only 13 years old. Her other problem is that she knows that they’re other places besides Ember, but nobody will ever listen to her. She doesn’t really solve the first problem except for the fact that she just deals with it. She solves her second problem by exploring, looking for clues of another existent and most important imagining. Doon has anger issues and wants his father to be proud of him. Whenever he gets angry he hurts someone or messes something up. He has calmed himself down at sometimes. But I found that when he was with Lina he was more calmed down that with anyone else. He solves his problem with his father by doing something big. Read the book “The City of Ember” to find out.