how can ı find a book summary about the city of ember?
Posted on September 13th, 2007 by admin
melossh asked:
ı want to find about each chapters summary for the city of ember.
Question posted courtesy of: Greg Schmigel’s Book Reviews
ı want to find about each chapters summary for the city of ember.
Question posted courtesy of: Greg Schmigel’s Book Reviews
Readers are given clues to the origin of the City of Ember in the introduction. The Builders of Ember, fearing an apocalyptic event, built the city to ensure that humans would continue to exist. Later we discover that the Builders planned that future generations would “grow up with no knowledge of a world outside, so that they (would) feel no sorrow for what they have lost.” The city was designed to last no longer than 220 years, at the conclusion of which the citizens of Ember were to receive instructions contained in a time-locked box held by the mayor that described how to leave the city. However, over the course of 241 years, the box has popped open and been mislaid.
The people of Ember have no knowledge of what lies beyond their electric flood lamps. Most believe that Ember is the only light in a dark world. Many fear that despite their relentless recycling efforts the city of Ember is slowly dying. When the antiquated generator begins to plunge the entire city unexpectedly into blackouts, two young people begin to search for answers to the blackouts, the food shortages, and the lessoning of the town’s seemingly inexhaustible consumer supplies.Lina obtains a job as messenger and travels the town, learning the true nature of the city’s shortages and of the people’s fears. In the course of her job Lina also discovers that some powerful people are taking advantage of their positions and hoarding supplies for themselves. Doon obtains a job working as a pipeworks laborer and learns that the generator is in a decrepit condition.
When Lina discovers the damaged fragments of the Builder’s document that contains instructions for leaving Ember, she and Doon decide to work together to decipher the message. Before they can share their discovery with everyone, the corrupt Mayor tries to withhold the information and destroy their hard work. Lina and Doon escape from the Mayor and the city of Ember in a small boat following the Builder’s deciphered instructions. They arrive above ground where they witness their first sunrise. In their hurry to escape, however, they neglected to pass on the exit instructions to their friends in Ember. Finding a crevasse, they crawl through and drop the instruction wrapped in Doon’s jacket to the city far below.
well the city of ember isn’t a common book on websites such as gradesaver.com and sparknotes.com so why don’t you try reading the book?