Summary Of The City Of Ember By Jeane Duprau

The City Of Ember

Author: Jeanne DuPrau

Made by: Uddam Gill 7B
About the city of ember

The title of my book is the city of ember. It is a fiction book by Jeanne duprau that contains 270 pages. The main characters are Lina mayfleet, doon harrow, mayor cole, looper windly, and granny. Lina mayfleet loves to run and hopes to become a messenger and draws about how the outside world might look like, she also must take care of her sister poppy. Doon harrow is serious and usually focusing on important tasks and loves bugs but has anger problems. Mayor cole is a greedy person who hordes all the food supplies of the city and is mean, hypocritical, and abuses power. Looper windly is a sketchy guy and keeps things to himself. Granny really needs to put her act together, her shop used to be tidy, but now its really messy and she can also be forgetful sometimes.

Summary of book

This book is about the city of ember which was created under ground when the world was falling apart. There is not an unlimited supply of powering the generator which is slowly degrading, so the residents are

The go to the pipe works and get exited when they figure out that the instructions were valid. They later discovered that a man named looper was stealing things for the mayor and the mayor kept it in a secret room in the pipe works. They reported it to city hall and the mayor found out, so he put them under arrest for spreading rumours. The resolution is when Lina and doon escape by an under ground river although they had to use and old beat up boat to cross it. They climb a huge rock slope and and find a book they decide to read after the climb. They then enter a new world and find out about sunlight moonlight, stars, and nature. They look through a hole and see how ember really looked like and throw the instructions down hoping to spread the word of the outside