The City of Ember is a rule-bound place, where all the lights go out at 9 each night, everyone rises early for breakfast, and careful recycling is a way of life. Lately, though, the lights have begun flickering. Supplies are shorter each year, and some foods are no longer available.
Until their 12th year, the children of the City of Ember go to school. But at the end of that year, they are assigned the jobs they will do for years after, perhaps to the end of their lives. Lina yearns to be a Messenger, running free in the streets, learning the secrets of the city. Doon wants desperately to be an electrician's assistant or a pipeworker, because he dreams of fixing the ancient, failing generators of the city.
When each receives the assignment the other wants, they switch jobs, and begin a conspiracy that will not end until they learn how to save the entire city. Along the way, they solve an ancient puzzle, defeat the greed and subterfuge of the Mayor and his minions, and discover a much wider world than either had ever dreamed existed.
Life. People of Ember doesn’t know how beans can grow from a seed or how can worm change to moth. It’s so funny they don’t know candle, matches, or boat. They never taste pineapples or peaches. And they don’t know how to make moveable light—read this as torch. They don’t know blue sky either. They only know that there is something bigger and more powerful than themselves, even the Builder.
The story is about future livings—I guessed—and we can say people of Ember is more primitive in someways than us. I feel pity to them. But what’s best is Lina and Doon’s adventure finding the Egress—exit—outside Ember. With their instict and knowledge, they learned by themselves how to survive.
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