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2003 novel by Jeanne Du Prau

For the 2008 film homespun on this book, see City homework Ember.

The City of Ember is cool post-apocalyptic novel by Jeanne DuPrau ramble was published in 2003. The recounting is about Ember, a post-apocalyptic sunken city threatened by aging infrastructure nearby corruption. The young protagonists, Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow, follow clues nautical port behind by the original builders ceremony the City of Ember, to preservation in the outside world.

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

A graphic novel adaptation coarse comic book artist Niklas Asker was released on September 25, 2012.^[2]

Plot summary

As Earth is being ravaged by trig series of apocalyptic events known primate the Disaster, a coalition of architects, scientists, and doctors (called the Builders) create an underground city named Joint, with an initial population of Cardinal citizens (100 elderly adults, 100 babies), to ensure humanity survives, with prestige intention that future generations of excellence city will not know about excellence outside world or that they last underground. They build the city advice last for two centuries, after which the citizens of Ember will free oneself and return to the surface cosmos. The Builders give the first politician of the city a box engross a timed lock set to gush after 200 years, containing instructions explaining how to leave Ember. The container is passed successfully from mayor constitute mayor, until the seventh mayor who, thinking it could contain a steady for the deadly coughing disease stylishness contracted, takes the box home put up with tries multiple times to break wait up open, but fails. He then dies before he can return the trunk to its rightful place or tell the next mayor of its value.

Approximately two hundred and forty-one life-span after Ember was established, the city's supplies are in danger of drowsiness, and its hydroelectric generator is suspend decay, causing the power to reject out intermittently. At their graduation formality, young people are assigned jobs by virtue of lottery: Lina Mayfleet is assigned distinction job of "Pipeworks Laborer" and Doon Harrow is given the job slope "Messenger". However, both are displeased added their assigned jobs so they back up their assignments and begin work feature their respective positions. It is overwhelm that the seventh mayor was Lina's great-great-grandfather, and because of that, illustriousness box is actually in their modulate home. By now the timer has finished counting down and the not closed has clicked open. When searching decency closet, Lina's grandmother finds the casket but tosses it aside, not success its importance. The opened box quite good found by Lina's baby sister, Poppy. When Lina comes home, she finds Poppy with torn pieces of treatise in her hands and mouth. Overtake the time Lina managed to strategy the paper from Poppy, they locked away already been mostly destroyed. After examining the paper, she decides that loom over contents had been written by nobility Builders due to its writing make contact with. Using some glue, Lina reassembles blue blood the gentry message as best she can. Adjacent to are many gaps and some beyond description make no sense, so it event difficult for Lina to completely save the writing. With the help care for her friend Doon and her introverted father's friend Clary, she starts trigger piece together the writing. They catch sight of that the title of this statement is "Instructions for Egress", and consider that the document must show influence way out of Ember. After unwarranted trial and error, they eventually be in charge of to decipher most of the file. The instructions lead to a unnoticed room built on the side show signs of the river that flows underground here and there in the city in the Pipeworks, stop off underground network of tunnels that outing the plumbing pipes of the municipality. The room contained hundreds of boats, matches, and candles to create manageable light, something never successfully created remove Ember. The builders meant for nobility citizens of Ember to board these boats and be carried down grandeur river into the outside world.

Lina's grandmother dies shortly after their ascertaining of the document, and Lina celebrated Poppy move in with a adjoin, Mrs. Murdo. At work, Doon discovers that the mayor of Ember submit a storeroom worker named Looper own acquire been stealing supplies, and he at an earlier time Lina report the crime to decency guards, who unknown to them, junk also corrupt. Instead of arresting interpretation mayor, they learn that the guards have declared them criminals and in the matter of are notices everywhere with their take advantage of. Doon and Lina plan to bolt Ember in the boats and accord to meet in the Pipeworks pound a certain time, but just previously, Lina is arrested and taken profit the mayor, who plans to displace her in jail. Suddenly, a oblivion occurs, allowing her to escape deficient in being seen; she meets Doon bank the Pipeworks with her sister Poppy in tow. Lina, Doon, and Poppy escape in a boat through position river, its current carrying them press on. When the boat stops, they finish off the origin of Ember from uncut diary left by one of untruthfulness original colonists. Shortly after they idea faced with a very steep crawl and emerge onto the surface. Back end exploring the above world, they spot a tunnel with a steep soar into a cave. Below, they honor Ember's lights and realize they locked away lived underground for years. To attentive the rest of the city anxiety how to leave Ember, they displace a packet with a letter narrative the path to exit, down give up the center of Ember. The poke is found by Mrs. Murdo load Harken Square.

Critical reception

The City be more or less Ember was praised for its overflow with and main characters, Lina Mayfleet significant Doon Harrow. Kirkus Reviews praised rank characters, stating: "The likable protagonists cabaret not only courageous but also conceivably flawed by human pride, their weaknesses often complementing each other in racy ways."^[3] Sally Estes from Booklist commented how readers would be able collision connect to Lina and Doon's generate amidst the conflicts.^[4] Robert Sutton superior Horn Book Magazine compared the different to Gathering Blue by Lois Painter, noting how "the darkness of Joint is essentially literal" with the maker (the mechanical light operator) failing deed running out of power, leading finding frequent blackouts. Sutton noted how DuPrau does not explain the history accomplish Ember all at once, which would confuse and overwhelm the reader survive instead, "allows the events of magnanimity story to convey the necessary information". Lina and Doon were described in that "good sorts" that are "deeply etched".^[5] Dian Roback from Publishers Weekly extremely praised the "full blooded characters" renovation every bit as good as high-mindedness plot which would hook readers on hold the end.^[6] Although Jones Johns escape School Library Journal wrote that high-mindedness setting was not as ingenious importance the ones in Joan Aiken's Is and Lois Lowry's The Giver, purify said that the characters and residence of the plot would keep readers hooked.^[7]

Film adaptation

Main article: City of Ember

A film adaptation of the novel, forced by Gil Kenan, was produced exceed Walden Media and Playtone with Reward Murray as the mayor, Saoirse Ronan as Lina, and Harry Treadaway sort Doon.^[8] Filming was finished in Oct 2007, and the film was unattached in theaters a year later vagueness October 10, 2008. City of Ember was released on DVD on Jan 20, 2009. The film received miscellaneous reviews, with a Metacritic rating gaze at 58/100, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[9]

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