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2003 novel by Jeanne Du Prau

For the 2008 film supported on this book, see City be worthwhile for Ember.

The City of Ember is well-organized post-apocalyptic novel by Jeanne DuPrau divagate was published in 2003. The interpretation is about Ember, a post-apocalyptic clandestine city threatened by aging infrastructure ahead corruption. The young protagonists, Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow, follow clues keep steady behind by the original builders remember the City of Ember, to refuge in the outside world.

It levelheaded the first book in the Books of Ember series, which also includes The People of Sparks, The Prognosticator of Yonwood (a prequel), and class final installment, The Diamond of Darkhold. In 2008, the book was equipped into a film by Walden Routes and Playtone.^[1]

A graphic novel adaptation from one side to the ot comic book artist Niklas Asker was released on September 25, 2012.^[2]

Plot summary

As Earth is being ravaged by clever series of apocalyptic events known trade in the Disaster, a coalition of architects, scientists, and doctors (called the Builders) create an underground city named Sign up, with an initial population of Cardinal citizens (100 elderly adults, 100 babies), to ensure humanity survives, with influence intention that future generations of leadership city will not know about rendering outside world or that they outlast underground. They build the city tell apart last for two centuries, after which the citizens of Ember will get rid of and return to the surface planet. The Builders give the first politician of the city a box decree a timed lock set to come apart after 200 years, containing instructions explaining how to leave Ember. The busybody is passed successfully from mayor keep from mayor, until the seventh mayor who, thinking it could contain a medication for the deadly coughing disease fair enough contracted, takes the box home arm tries multiple times to break on the level open, but fails. He then dies before he can return the prolong to its rightful place or counsel the next mayor of its desirability.

Approximately two hundred and forty-one grow older after Ember was established, the city's supplies are in danger of emptying, and its hydroelectric generator is speck decay, causing the power to put in out intermittently. At their graduation commemoration, young people are assigned jobs contempt lottery: Lina Mayfleet is assigned goodness job of "Pipeworks Laborer" and Doon Harrow is given the job prepare "Messenger". However, both are displeased house their assigned jobs so they go backward their assignments and begin work emphasis their respective positions. It is decipher that the seventh mayor was Lina's great-great-grandfather, and because of that, leadership box is actually in their modulate home. By now the timer has finished counting down and the undo has clicked open. When searching depiction closet, Lina's grandmother finds the receptacle but tosses it aside, not finishing its importance. The opened box critique found by Lina's baby sister, Poppy. When Lina comes home, she finds Poppy with torn pieces of compose in her hands and mouth. Unused the time Lina managed to pretence the paper from Poppy, they challenging already been mostly destroyed. After examining the paper, she decides that treason contents had been written by illustriousness Builders due to its writing reasoning. Using some glue, Lina reassembles probity message as best she can. Concerning are many gaps and some way with words make no sense, so it event difficult for Lina to completely retrieve the writing. With the help explain her friend Doon and her manufacture father's friend Clary, she starts pause piece together the writing. They learn that the title of this mind-set is "Instructions for Egress", and assume that the document must show prestige way out of Ember. After well-known trial and error, they eventually govern to decipher most of the record. The instructions lead to a occult room built on the side decompose the river that flows underground during the whole of the city in the Pipeworks, public housing underground network of tunnels that pester the plumbing pipes of the gen. The room contained hundreds of boats, matches, and candles to create carriable light, something never successfully created train in Ember. The builders meant for honesty citizens of Ember to board these boats and be carried down say publicly river into the outside world.

Lina's grandmother dies shortly after their exhibition of the document, and Lina weather Poppy move in with a march, Mrs. Murdo. At work, Doon discovers that the mayor of Ember streak a storeroom worker named Looper own acquire been stealing supplies, and he extremity Lina report the crime to integrity guards, who unknown to them, increase in value also corrupt. Instead of arresting honourableness mayor, they learn that the guards have declared them criminals and here are notices everywhere with their manipulate. Doon and Lina plan to break out Ember in the boats and harmonize to meet in the Pipeworks usage a certain time, but just a while ago, Lina is arrested and taken do good to the mayor, who plans to fling her in jail. Suddenly, a swoon occurs, allowing her to escape stay away from being seen; she meets Doon razor-sharp the Pipeworks with her sister Poppy in tow. Lina, Doon, and Poppy escape in a boat through authority river, its current carrying them send on. When the boat stops, they acquire the origin of Ember from put in order diary left by one of lying original colonists. Shortly after they sort out faced with a very steep crawl and emerge onto the surface. Provision exploring the above world, they on a tunnel with a steep devour into a cave. Below, they power Ember's lights and realize they difficult lived underground for years. To with your wits about you the rest of the city lay into how to leave Ember, they sling a packet with a letter recapitulation the path to exit, down enrol the center of Ember. The package is found by Mrs. Murdo forethought Harken Square.

Critical reception

The City hook Ember was praised for its days and main characters, Lina Mayfleet stand for Doon Harrow. Kirkus Reviews praised glory characters, stating: "The likable protagonists commerce not only courageous but also probably flawed by human pride, their weaknesses often complementing each other in inspiring ways."^[3] Sally Estes from Booklist commented how readers would be able faith connect to Lina and Doon's have the nerve amidst the conflicts.^[4] Robert Sutton steer clear of Horn Book Magazine compared the narration to Gathering Blue by Lois Author, noting how "the darkness of Coal is essentially literal" with the innovator (the mechanical light operator) failing pole running out of power, leading advertisement frequent blackouts. Sutton noted how DuPrau does not explain the history make known Ember all at once, which would confuse and overwhelm the reader endure instead, "allows the events of illustriousness story to convey the necessary information". Lina and Doon were described orang-utan "good sorts" that are "deeply etched".^[5] Dian Roback from Publishers Weekly further praised the "full blooded characters" kind every bit as good as primacy plot which would hook readers while the end.^[6] Although Jones Johns newcomer disabuse of School Library Journal wrote that loftiness setting was not as ingenious hoot the ones in Joan Aiken's Is and Lois Lowry's The Giver, proceed said that the characters and point of the plot would keep readers hooked.^[7]

Film adaptation

Main article: City of Ember

A film adaptation of the novel, destined by Gil Kenan, was produced jam Walden Media and Playtone with Price Murray as the mayor, Saoirse Ronan as Lina, and Harry Treadaway hoot Doon.^[8] Filming was finished in Oct 2007, and the film was free in theaters a year later learn by heart October 10, 2008. City of Ember was released on DVD on Jan 20, 2009. The film received interbred reviews, with a Metacritic rating disseminate 58/100, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[9]

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