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    In the book The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau there is a part where the author stops the story to have a memory moment. The memory moment is where Lina remembers why Doon and her aren’t friends anymore, and this might have happened because it might foreshadow that they could become friends later in the book. In the text it states that, “But Lina dashed across the street, took off her shoes and socks, and wrapped herself around the cold metal of the pole. Pushing with her bare feet, she inched upward

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    The movie Alice through the Looking Glass and the book The City of Ember are very similar. They are similar in conflict, and the main characters. But they are also different in theme. Alice through the looking glass is about a girl who tryings to go back in time to save her friend, The Mad Hatter. Lina is a girl who is stuck in a city underground and tries to get out using a passageway. These two may sound different but they are actually the same. The theme of Alice through the Looking Glass would

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    In the book the City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau the theme is if you work as a team people can't worry about who they are working with. In Ember they, thought there was no light except for electricity, but they found candles and are trying to light them. The author writes, "With a great deal of effort, they looped the strings of a rod around one of the sticks. Lina holds the rod while Doon scraped the blue tip into the flame." this is on page 190. This is teamwork because they were doing something

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    fall for many reasons; corrupt leaders, Scarce Resources, and illnesses. Here, There are two Great societies, The City of Ember and Nazi germany, They both fell or will fall. And this is in the result of those three things. There are many reasons politically why societies fall, but we will be focusing on Corrupt leaders.In my first society, which is my Dystopian Novel,The City Of Ember. In my book the mayor was corrupt and kept secrets from everyone.“ “So first mayor will pass the box to the next

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    In the books The SpiderWick Chronicles and The City of Ember by authors Jeanne DuPrau and Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Beck they both show teamwork. From getting to the new world by working together in the City of Ember or by giving the boggart the new house and trying to find the boggart in the SpiderWick Chronicles. There are similarities in both of the books and here are some. At the start of the City of Ember Lina and Doon which are the 2 main characters they both get jobs that they do not want but

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    How can the government in the books be related to our government today? In both the book The Giver the and the book The City Of Ember the theme is about two very strict dystopian societies where the people believed they lived in a perfect world. In both stories there are examples that show similarities and differences that can relate our government to the two dystopian governments in the books. In The Giver Jonas and the rest of his community live in a very strict and orderly government

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    extraordinary and all of them possess a lighter shade of eye color that stood out in the community. (Transition). The genetic engineering went wrong because most people in his city had dark eyes. Not everything the elders do is ideal or perfect.(Transition). Diversity helps uniqueness and embrace imperfection. Imagery In The City of Ember, the setting portrays a bleak and dystopian

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    and Doon have to find a way out of the City of Ember. Throughout their adventures, they realize that they need to think and act more like an adult than a 12-year-old kid to succeed. As Doon is braver, more observant, and more fixated, he is more adult-like than Lina. In The City of Ember, Doon is more fixated. He lets everyone in the class know how much trouble Ember is in on page 13. This shows that he is fixated because he is determined to save the city from despair. He also doesn’t care what

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    The story is about Ember, an underground city threatened by ageing infrastructure. The young protagonist, Lina Mayfleet, and her friend, Doon Harrow, follow clues left behind by the original builders of the City of Ember, to safety in the outside world. Lina's messenger job makes her care about Ember's problems in a way that she didn't before. When the seven-minute blackout goes down, Lina freaks out. Suddenly, everyone seems to be just a little bit in danger, and she notes that “Fear had settled

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    After reading The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau, I have learned that Lina is a dynamic character. At the beginning of the book, Lina is selfish eventually, Lina becomes responsible and Lucky. These character traits were observed through Lina’s actions, dialogue, relationships, choices, and problems. The City of Ember connects to my life because when I was young I was also selfish.But then over time, I became more responsible and I am much luckier. According to the first few chapters

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