Irony In The City Of Ember Analysis

In the City of Ember, irony occours throughout the novel. For example, Lina and Doon discover the mayor’s secret storage room. Du Prau writes, “ ‘The mayor has a secret treaure room in the pipe works’ ” (158). On Lina’s first day of work, Lina takes a message from Looper to the mayor saying something about a delivery for the mayor at 8 o’clock. We know this later to be that Looper is giving all the goods that are no longer in shelves to the mayor to eat and store for himself. The irony in the mayor is that he is the exact opposite of a good government official and yet no one is trying to stop him because the people are uneducated. A good mayor posses the qualities of self-sacrifice and protection of the city but he is the exact opposite.