Lova+Hammer+City+of+Ember

Answers:


 * 1. Explain the beginning and what is important with the box.**

In the beginning of the movie a old man with a grey box in his hands and he set the box meeter to 200 years. And then the box was activated, like a bomb. Then there is a new seen. The grey box is transferred from mayor to mayor. After two hundred years the box has ticked down to zero. Then a person puts it under a bed and thats the end of the beginning.

The city was built underground to save the human race. On the earth surface something happened. The problem is that the electricity generator is gonna break down, because it´s getting old. The people have to do something now to solve the situation.
 * 1) **Where is the city and what is the problem that the citizens are experiencing?**

The assignment day means that the older kids will get their jobs. This job is what you are going to work with in the rest of you life. When you work as a Pipeworker you are working with the pipes underground. When you work as a messenger you are going to people and give them the messages! They didn´t have any computers or phones.
 * 3. What is assignment day? What is pipe works and what is a messenger?**

The builders are the people who built and repair the city.
 * 4. Who are the builders? What did they build? What part do they play?**

The city is going black for good because the generator is breaking down.
 * 5. What is going black for good and why?**

Because he want´s to go up alone, and leave the city and all the citizens. He doest want to tell anyone how to get to the surface.
 * 6. Why does the Mayor seem afraid that someone will know about the box?**

They don’t have much food left. Nothing can grow, because they don’t have any sunlight. Lina and Doon found the mayor in a big secret room with a lot of food in it just for him.
 * 7. What is happening with the food?**

The granny knows about box because she was a relative with the 7th mayor.
 * 8. How can the granny know about the box?**

Lina’s dad drowned when he was trying to find a way out.
 * 9. Explain what part her dead father plays in the story.**

The mayor is not trustworthy. For example he hid a storage full with food and drinks. He is a very selfish man and he don’t wanna help anyone. He lied to the people and he said that everything was alright.
 * 10.** **Is the mayor trustworthy explain why or why not?**

The mayors men is searching for the kids because they wont the grey box. The kids now everything about the surface. Lina also turned the light off and took the mayors key and ran away.
 * 11. Why are the mayors men searching for the kids?**

When Linas and Doons parents were younger they also wanted to find a way out. They were friends and they didn’t succeed to find a way out.
 * 12. What do the kids' parents have in common?**

In the end of the movie they had a map that showed how to get out, step by step. They found an exit and it´s was only Lina, Doon and Poppy managed to escape to the surface.
 * 13. Make a short summary of the ending.**

They wrote a letter and threw it down in the hole. Doon’s dad found it and realized that he and all the other people in the city had to found the same way out that Doon, Lina and Poppy used.

The End