Character Development and Story Elements in The City of Ember GOOD

Characterization
Lina: Talent:running
Secret:instructions out of the city, imaginary city
Best friend: Doon
Ambition:She wants to have things that no one else does
Object she carries: Sometimes instructions
Problem and Solution: Guards want to catch her, she escapes the city and them tells them how to go out.

Doon: Talent:figuring out things
Secret: He knows that the city is running low on resources
Best Friend: Lina
Ambition: Lets anger overtake him
Object that he carries: Dont Know
Problem and Solution: He wants to find out a way to help the city and he does it with the help of Lina and the instructions which showed him the way.

Story Elements
Setting: City of Ember, Surface of the Earth
Conflict: The City of Ember id running out of resources
Theme: The Theme is that you have to appreciate the things around you because other people may not have it.
Character:Doon was a nice kid that looked at things very carefully. He wanted a way to help save the city of Ember from disaster. Throughout the story he is determined to help the city and at the end he finally makes it with the help of Lina. He was pretty much the same all the story, the only he changed was that he became friends with Lina.

Lina is a girl who didn't expect to be the savior of Ember. Her Great Grandfather was the mayor of Ember. He had a disease and was going to die. He took the box with the instructions to his home to see if it has the instructions to his health. One day Lina found this box and Poppy(her little sister) was chewing on the instructions. She figured out the instructions and left Ember with Doon. She changes as soon as her grandmother died. She felt more as a mother because she had to take care of Poppy. She also felt more groan up after assignment day because she now had a job.


PLOT:
Exposition: Lina:Girl who likes to be in open spaces and run
Doon: Doon wants to save the city
Poppy: little sister of Lina
Mayor: Mayor of Ember, he's fat
There were intructions to get out of Ember but they got lost with the years.
Rising Actions:

• City is running low on light bulbs
• City is running low on food
• Lizzie was stealing food
• The Mayor was stealing food and light bulbs
• Lina Finds the instructions

Climax: When the guards tells he people that Lina and Doon are spreading false rumors and they go after them.
Falling action:They escape from the city of Ember
Resolution: They get out of Ember and send a message to Ember which is of how to get out.