utside, rain fell with such violence that great, pulsating sheets of water seemed to hang suspended between earth and sky. Squatting in the attic, Teddy watched raindrops roll like beads of quicksilver down the glass of the high, diamond-shaped window, and listened to the muted banjo twanging on the roof.…
They chose buying supplies over food, and lied to almost everyone. Gerta and Fritz were shortly joined in digging by their mother. She didn’t approve but wanted to be free. They met their dad on the other side, who was also tunneling. He’d given her the drawing to be ready, because they were coming. There was one problem. On her father’s side of the tunnel, the dirt was caving in, and time was running out.…
Embers begins by introducing the protagonist, an elderly man named Henrik who is identified as “the General”. He lives only with his servants and Nini, his nanny, in an isolated castle in the middle of a forest in the Hungarian mountains, near the city of Vienna. He receives a message from a man who he has not seen in over forty one years. This man, Konrad, was his best friend through his childhood. The pair stuck together by a strong bond of friendship, regardless of their opposite differences. Henrik was the son of the Countess of France and the Officer of the Guards. As such, he came from a family of wealth and received everything in his life with ease including his education and tuition into the Military Academy. Konrad, on the…
A key symbol in the City of Ember is light. Without light the city would not be able to survive. Doon stated, “The lights go out all the time! And the shortages, there’s shortages of everything! And no one does anything about it, something terrible is going to happen!”(13). Doon worries that the civilians will run out of everything and he is angry because no one realizes it.There is only unnatural light in the city so if the lamps go out the people would not be able to see since they are living underground. Light symbolizes the issues in Ember, and how it is a dystopian society.…
Liesel’s a young girl who’s been abandoned by her mother, not by choice but because she couldn’t afford to keep her or her little brother during the war. So, she sent them to a small town called Munich, but only Liesel ended up going. Her brother was very sick, and didn’t make it on the train. It was very hard for Liesel already, so when her brother had died she really felt alone. She lived on Himmel Street with Hans and Rosa Hubberman; the first couple of weeks were extremely rough for Liesel. Every night she would wake up by in a shout, because she kept on having nightmares about her little brother. It was haunting her, and she had no way out of it. When Hans would hear her scream in the middle of the night, he would hurry over to her room to calm her down. He then started reading books to her, Liesel never knew how to write or read, so when Hans started teaching her she was…
John Winthrop in particular has been quoted as a source of inspiration by U.S. presidents from John F. Kennedy and…
Upon Liesel’s arrival to Himmel Street, she has no desire to meet Hans: her new Papa. Hans notices her stolen copy of The Gravedigger's Handbook and offers to teach her how to read and write. From then on, a lively friendship presents itself as “Liesel made her way down to the basement.…
In the City of Ember, the setting is dark and gloomy. The author, Jeanne DuPrau, reveals that the city is very broken and is in a destitute condition as many blackouts occurred in the city. For instance, Doon points out, “Running out of light bulbs, running out of power, running out of time—disaster was right around the corner” (48). The status of Ember is poor due to the lack of resources. As this dark situation threatens to overtake the city, Doon steps forward to join the pipeworkers, while he could have enjoyed a simple life by being ignorant, to find a way to fix the generator in order to stop the blackouts from occurring. Doon, who is fully aware of how Ember is running out of everything, decides to take an initiative to find a solution…
In the novel, “The City of Ember” by “Jeanne DuPrau” there lies many similarities and differences between our world and The City of Ember. Throughout the book, you slowly uncover ways citizens live, handle situations, and readers learn the secrets of the city. In the beginning of the novel, the author explains that in the city, the sky was always dark, and the only light came from great flood lamps mounted on buildings, and at the tops of poles in the middle of the larger squares. (DuPrau, 2003 Pg 4). But on the other hand, our society has natural light approaching us, and the sky in our world is not dark and dim compared to Ember. This shows right away that both societies have their differences between each world. It would be absolutely difficult…
It came time to close up shop. Today, it was only Max and Alex working at the shop. When they come home, Liesel and the nameless woman were nowhere to be found. However, Max new where they were. He slowly made his way into the basement, making sure not to wake them if they were sleeping. When he finally found Liesel and his mother, one was sleeping and the other was reading. Liesel was reading the English interpretation of the Torah because she wanted to learn all about the ways of Jews. Max sat beside Liesel to explain the old English words that she didn’t understand.…
The story is based in today’s America in an unknown city. The environment in the book is often described in a very dark and depressing way, but the descriptions are mostly very simple, as the author has put a much larger effort in describing the thoughts of the…
Ellie’s thoughts are out of order, and her actions hectic. The alcohol from the night before, combined with the drugs she took, has left her unfocused and slightly confused. Ellie’s printer runs out of ink, and she has to go the city, to get more, even though she knows the shops will be closing soon.…
Annie finally went home but no one was home. She waited at the front of the house for her parents or her brother to come home. While kip was with Andrew trying to find grace. Kip has lost his sense of purpose, he doesn’t know what he wants to be anymore. He doesn’t feel like the compassion to swim like before he is confused and lost. Annie’s mother and her brother finally came home. They saw her but not grace wondering where she is. Annie told her mum that she doesn’t know where she is, making her mother worried and scared what might of happen to her. Kip and Andrew went to find shelter while the police come to find grace and a boy. When the police came they started to ask questions about the where about grace was while looking for her. Kip saw a boogie bored and taught someone was on it so he knew the one thing he could do, was to swim. When he swam to the bored he felt a strong current coming and that he couldn’t control himself. As kip was getting bushed by the waves Annie went with her family to look for grace and where was the last place Annie saw grace making the police think that she must have dropped into the water. When kip was floating into the water a boat came and saved him and took care of him. When he was awake he saw a figure with a blue face and mouth it was a…
The car purred out of the drive into the road. Darrell took a last look back at her home. She would not see it again for three months. She felt a little sad—but then, being a sensible girl, she cheered up at once and set her thoughts on Malory Towers. She had grown to love her school very much…
The twins headed off into their bedroom, on the second floor, in order to seek for the candles, oddly not finding any. The room was pitch black and breezier than they had both remembered. Poppy turned around and had noticed their window is open, and hurriedly moved towards the window in order to close it, when she had heard a loud rumble of thunder followed by the lightning striking. Poppy turned around in order to make sure Oliver was okay, and found him lying face down by the bed, automatically rushed towards him, trying to see what happened. Abruptly she felt a pressure on her head and heard another strike of lightning and then her vision dissapeared into the darkness. It’s Raining It’s Pouring, the children are snoring, they went to bed bumped their heads and couldn’t get up in the…