City of Ember
By Jasdeep Dhaliwal
Table of Contents
Title Page…………………………………………….Pg.1
Table of Contents………………………………….Pg.2
Summary…………………………………………….Pg.3-5
Text to Text………………………………………….Pg.6
Text to Self…………………………………………..Pg.7
Reflection 1………………………………………….Pg.8
Reflection 2………………………………………….Pg.9
Reflection 3………………………………………….Pg.10
Theme………………………………………………..Pg.11
Inference…………………………………………….Pg.12
Characters…………………………………………..Pg.13
The City of Ember Summary
Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow are both
twelve years old. They are students of the Highest
Class of the Ember School. As the book opens, it's
Assignment Day or the day the twelve-year-olds
are given their jobs. The assignments are the jobs
they do for living. There are jobs written on slips
of paper in a bag and each student draws a slip to
determine his job.
Summary Continued
Lina is assigned to work in the Pipeworks
and Doon is assigned to be a messenger. Doon is
certain that the city is in trouble.. He trades
assignments with Lina, hoping he can do
something good for the city if he's working in the
Pipeworks. Lina accepts the trade, loving the
idea of being a messenger.
Summary Continued
When their city is about to run out of light,
Doon and Lina find an instruction that might save
them from the darkness. But the mayor is blocking
their way to save Ember. Lina found a thick piece of
paper that had something written on it. Most of the
letters had been faded away. The only word that Lina
could understand was instructions. That gave Lina and
Doon an idea that it might help them leave the city.
Text to Text
Number The Stars
In “Number the Stars”
everyone who is Jewish can’t
leave the country or go
anywhere so people are trying
to escape secretly
City Of Ember
Everyone is trapped in an
underground city and can’t get
out. Lina and Doon found a
paper with instructions that
might help them leave the City
of Ember
Text to Self
In “City of Ember” granny forgets Poppy in the shop
while she is looking for something. When Lina gets
home and asks where Poppy is granny says “I forgot
her in the shop”. Lina runs to the store to find Poppy
and brings her home. Granny can be so forgetful.
When I was a little baby my mom was in a hurry to
get home from the grocery store that she forgot me
in the stroller at the cashier and her purse. But later
when she sat in the car she said to herself, “There’s
something missing”. She looks back and doesn’t see
me so she runs back into the store to find me.
Reflection #1
The main characters of the book who are Lina, Doon and Poppy,
are very adventurous, active and smart. Their thoughts and actions
made the book more interesting to me. But the pace of the book
was really fast, especially when they moved to one place to
another. What really got me interested into the book was when
they found the piece of paper that had letters that faded away. I
was curious because I wanted to figure out the words myself. I kept
trying and trying until I gave up. The only word I knew was
instructions. That gave me an idea that it was instructions that
might help the people in the city of Ember. Later on, when I read
the book it told me what the letters said because Lisa and Doon
solved the missing words.
Reflection #2
I think the author’s message was to make good
friendships. In good and bad times you should
always have a friend beside you. You should
always work together. In the book Doon and Lina
were best friends. They both worked together to
get out of the underground city of Ember. They
figured out the missing words from the faded
paper and later found a way out.
Reflection #3
After I finished the book I still had questions
in my mind and they were: What really
made them live underground apart? Why
didn’t the builders of Ember want them (the
people of Ember)to know about the world
up above? And why didn’t they bring any
animals with them?
Possibility of Darkness and
Hunger
Lina and Doon are caught up in the mystery of the instructions and both
are excited about the possibility they might solve the mystery. However, they
are more concerned with the need to make their world better so they and
their families can survive. Lina, along with every other citizen in Ember, has
considered the possibility that the generator will go off permanently, leaving
the entire city in darkness. Added to that is the realization that supplies are
dangerously low. There are few light bulbs and little food remaining in the
city's storerooms. There are few supplies such as clothing and pencils. When
Lina visits the greenhouses, she learns from Clary that a blight has struck
some of the crops. These shortages added to the concern about the generator
have put people on edge. When the Mayor addresses the people of Ember, his
message is simply not to worry. While Lina and Doon are doing their best to
make out of underground Ember.
Inference
In the book “City of Ember” they made me
think about one character the most. The character’s
name was Poppy. I kept talking to myself saying, “Is
Poppy a girl or boy?” The name sounded like a boy
name mostly to me until I got to one part of the
book. It was in the beginning few chapters. It kept
saying for example: Lina’s sister or she.
Characters
• Lizzie: Curly red hair 12 years old
• Lina: Tall, thin, messy brown hair, she's 12, fast
• Granny: Curly long grey hair, big eyes
• Poppy: Straight brown hair, a baby, FAST for her age!
• Mrs. Murdo: Wide shoulders, sandy hair, motherly look
• Doon: Gorgeous black-brown hair, deep brown eyes, tall, thin, looks
about 17 but is 12
• Clary: Short, brave, strong, always keeps hair up
• Looper: Greasy, slick hair, tall and lanky, clumsy
• The Mayor: Ashamed, short, fat, grey almost gone hair