The City of Ember Chapter 6 to Chapter 9 Before Reading: Before reading the assigned chapters‚ read and complete the following activity on Point of View. POINT OF VIEW Remember‚ someone is always between the reader and the action of the story. That someone is telling the story from his or her own point of view. This angle of vision‚ the point of view from which the people‚ events‚ and details of a story are viewed‚ is important to consider when reading a story. As you read a piece
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Summary Lina and Doon were just your average 12- year olds‚ except they lived in the City of Ember. The City of Ember was a carefully constructed man-made city. The city was built to protect the human civilization for a span of time. The city ran just a little differently. For example‚ the students graduated school at the age of 12 and were assigned jobs randomly. On assignment day‚ Lina drew Pipeworks Laborer. Disappointed‚ she switched with Doon‚ who was also not satisfied with his new assignment
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The City of Ember - Book Review I have never really been underground‚ but author Jeanne DuPrau made me feel as if I had been there during the dark‚ long‚ blackouts. Ember was the only city or place anyone knew of. No one knew what was beyond the city; out in the darkness. The power and light of the city came from electricity generated by the river running underneath Ember and sudden blackouts occurred as nobody at all knew when to expect them. Every night at nine o’clock the power was turned
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The first chapter in Jeanne Duprau’s The City of Ember‚ establishes the city’s high expectations from the graduation adolescents. They have completed their education and will be assigned a city job at the age of twelve. At this age most adolescents of entering the conventional level of Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development. They are beginning to internalize moral standards and look to society to base many of their decisions on. The job they choose on that day is how they will benefit and contribute
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City of Ember‚ for example‚ is a perfect example of unreal settings. The City of Embers is set in an underground city that gets its electrical power generated by the river and has supplies that can last up to about 200 years. Similarly to City of Ember‚ the EverBlue shows a world underwater. The setting is in Natatoria‚ a city of underwater houses and underwater battles. These two book’s settings are on Earth‚ but
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City of Embers By Jeanne DeParu My Reviews I thought the City of Embers was a good book. It was a race against time before the whole city will go black. In the beginning of the book it was boring but when Lina and Doon discovered that there was a way out of the city that’s when the story became exciting. I like when Lina and Doon switched jobs because they were better for the job the other one had. I like the science fiction part and that the book was set in the future. There was adventure
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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
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The book The City Of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau is about an underground city of people who are working to escape because all of the light went out. Lina and Doon become friends and end up trying to solve the city’s lighting problem. One theme in the story is when change happens we have to adapt. Doon and Lina have challenges to overcome. Another theme is in hard times we have to try and find hope. Lots of changes have happened to the city. When change happens we have to adapt. In the middle of the
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Summer Reading 6th grade Student Name: ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬Anaiza Pérez_________________ Book Title and Author: The City of Ember; Jeanne DuPrau__________________ Number of Pages: 288_______ Entry Chapter Textual Evidence (Copy statements from the book in quotations and identify the Active Reading Strategy that was used). Analysis / Question / Opinion (Here is where you will include references to Literary Terms‚ if there is any) 1. Chapter 1 “Young people of the highest class.”
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Lina and Doon have found the only way out of Ember‚ and the mayor of Ember is hogging all the food from the citizens. “LINA RUN!” says Doon. As the guards spot Lina‚ she runs away. Will she escape? Find out in the City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau. Will Lina and Doon escape‚ or will the food hogging mayor stop them from leaving. Will Lina and Doon leave their family behind and go to a new city? The City of Ember has many similarities and differences between the novel and the film; however the movie
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