When mankind is about to come to an end, a group of scientists decide to create and populate a city deep underground. The city of Ember is to last for years after which its inhabitants are to. The City of Ember is basically a post-apocalyptic middle-grade science fiction novel. Jeanne DuPrau has written the novel and published in the year He felt the panic himself, like a hand taking hold of him, making him want to leap up and fling himself against the dark.
He had what no citizen of Ember had ever had before—a way to see in the dark. He set his pack down, untied the knot at the top, and groped around inside until he felt the candle. Down in a corner, he found the little packet of matches. He scraped a match against the pavement, and it flared up instantly. He held the flame to the string on the candle, and the string began to burn.
He had a light. He had the only light in the entire city. He went slowly along Pott Street, then turned left on North Street. At the end of the street was the wall of the Pipeworks office. When he got to the Pipeworks entrance, no one was there. A little cloud of moths came to flutter around the flame of his candle, but otherwise nothing moved in Plummer Square.
There was nothing to do but wait. He waited, listening to the distant shouts—and at last the lights blinked, blinked again, and came on. Lina was nowhere in sight. If the guards had found her and taken her … But Doon preferred not to think about that yet.
He would wait for a while—she would have been delayed by the blackout if she was on her way. The Singing was over, the people were dispersing throughout the city, and the guards, no doubt, would soon resume their search for him. Doon clasped his arms together and pressed them hard against his stomach, trying to stop the queasy fluttering. Doon stood up and hoisted his sack again. He was too restless to keep sitting. He walked down to Gappery Street and looked in both directions.
Not a single person was in sight. He had to decide what to do. He went and stood in the doorway of the Pipeworks. Think, he said to himself. He was not even sure he could make the river journey by himself. How would he get the boat into the water? Could he lift it without help? What could he possibly do that would not just get himself caught, too?
He felt sick. His hands were cold. He stepped out of the doorway and scanned the square once again. Nothing moved but the moths around the lights. And then down Gappery Street Lina came running. She came slantwise across the square, and he dashed to meet her.
She was hugging a bundle to her chest. Doon saw a curl of brown hair and two wide frightened eyes. Relief and excitement flooded through him. They were going! Doon dashed into the Pipeworks office long enough to replace the key on its hook, and then they pulled open the stairway door and started down.
Lina stepped slowly because of Poppy, and Poppy clung to her neck, unusually quiet, sensing the strangeness and importance of what was happening.
At the bottom of the stairs, they came out into the main tunnel and walked down the path to the west until they came to the marked rock. Then she put her coat back on and buttoned it up. Doon looked doubtfully at this bulky arrangement. Will you be able to reach around her and hold on to the rungs? Now that she had Poppy with her, she felt brave again. She could do whatever she needed to. Doon went down first. Lina followed.
She descended very slowly. When she got to the ledge, she stepped sideways, gripped the hand Doon held out for her, and, with a deep breath of relief, came into the entryway. They walked to the back of the entry hall, and Doon opened the steel panel and took out the key.
He slid aside the door to the room where the single boat was, and they went in. Doon took his candle from his sack and lit it. Lina unwrapped Poppy and sat her down at the back of the room.
Poppy put her thumb in her mouth, and Doon and Lina set to work. They put the boxes of candles and matches into the rear of the boat. Lina thought maybe they were weapons, meant for fending off hostile creatures. Finally they decided just to leave the paddles in the bottom of the boat and figure out what they were for as they went along. With Doon at the rear and Lina at the front, they found they could lift the boat with ease.
Her friend is Doon Harrow. And he is helping her in all this journey. There is a very good movie based on the same book as well. If you are interested in the movies then go ahead and watch the movie as well. Jeanne DuPrau is a very well known author when it comes to the fiction and the post-apocalyptic writings like this one. And the book we are talking about is the best one among all her work. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
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