In the novel, The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau, the setting plays a very important role in the book. As you read the book, you realized that their ‘world’ is very different from ours. The setting in their ‘world,’ has many differences from what our ‘world’ is like. In the beginning of the story, the author told us that the city of ember was very dim, and had little light. “In the city of ember, the sky was always dark. The only light came from great flood lamps mounted on the buildings and at the tops of poles in the middle of the larger squares”(DuPrau, 2003, p. 4). This is funny to think about because we are used to seeing light all the time, and then just imagine yourself in their ‘world,’ and then realize that they barely get to see any light as is. In our ‘world,’ we have …show more content…
When she was talking to Clary, she soon found out that they were running out of food for people, including potatoes. “When you dig up the potatoes, they’re runny inside, instead of hard, and they stink. I’m going to have to throw out all the ones in this bed. There are only a few beds of potatoes left that aren’t infected for the people to eat”(DuPrau, 2003, p. 61). This is a difference from the city of ember, and from our ‘world.’ In the city of ember, they have problems with food shortages, and when they run out, they will have no food left. If I was born in the city of ember, and lived there my whole life, knowing that at some point we were going to run out of food to eat, I would be terrified. I think Lina, handled the news really well because Clary is like her older sister, and since she’s by her, she felt comfortable and calm. In some parts of the ‘world,’ people are already starving, and in the other parts, people don’t even have to think about losing food. In the city of ember, they already knew this was gonna happen because they knew that their life was different already with no lights