Conflict/Problem:
The people of Ember
are in a underground
city with dwindling
resources, and no
real knowledge of
the world above. They
don't even know
that they are
underground!
Cause: The Instructions to
get out of the city when the
time was to come were lost
somewhere along the
generations of mayors, but
Lina Mayfleet has found
them. The thing is that the
people don; know that their
is a way out. They don't
even know that there is
anything else in the world
besides them.
Characters
Lisa Mayfleet: A slender 12-year-old messenger
that discovered The Instructions to
get out of Ember. She is best friends
with Doon Harrow.
Doon Harrow: A serious boy
that loves to fix things and
make things right. He helped
Lina use The Instructions to
get out of Ember. He is best
friends with Lina Mayfleet.
Setting
Time:A dystopian novel
that is set 200 years after
the collapse of humanity.
Place/Location: An
underground city.
Theme
Message/Theme:
If you think a little
out of the box and
go against the
flow, you will
uncover things
that you'd never
know otherwise.
How it's brought out in the
book: Lina does things that she
has been taught against with
every grain of her being, and in
the end, doing this helps her and
Doon escape the city.