Ember+Oskar

City of Ember:

1. explain the beginning and what is important with the box: Someting happend with the earth so you couldn't live there any more so sientist builded a city under ground so the people could survive. The sientist builded the city so it only could last in 200 years after that it wouldn't be enough electricity. So the sientist made a box that was past on from mayor to mayor and when it had gone 200 years they would open the box and inside there would be instructions how to get up to the surface again because then you could live there again. But the box was lost and no one rememberd it.

2. Where is the city and what is the problem that the citizens are experiencing: The citizens are running out of food and supplies and the lamps that gives the city light turns of and the gaps are getting longer and longer.

3. What is assignment day? What is pipe works and what is a messenger: Assigment day is when the kids that are old enough gets there job the mayor has a bag with notes in it and the kids gets to pick a note and on the note it stands what job you get. Pipe works is a job where you make sure that the pipes and the generator is okay, the generator is the machine that gives electricity to the city. A messenger is a job where you send messenges to people because they dont have any phones or computers so they say it to a messenger thats runs to the one that the messege is for and tells what it is.

4. Who are the builders? What did they build? What part do they play: The builders are the sientists that builded the city of ember. You can say that they play the part of god because they builded there world.

5. Who are the builders? What did they build? What part do they play: The city of Ember is going black for good because tthe generator is falling apart and then it will not give electricity to the lamps.

6. Why does the Mayor seem afraid that someone will know about the box: Because he is the only one that knows about the box and doesn't whant any one else to find out about it because he whats to escape from the city alone.

7. What is happening with the food: The citizens are running out of food because you can't grow any thing down there. But th e mayor has a hidden room filled with food but he doesn't share it he eats it all him self.

8. How can the granny know about the box: The granny knows about the box because her greate grand father was the seventh mayor and he gave the box to her.

9. Explain what part her dead father plays in the story: Her dead father also tried to find a way out of ember but he died in the tunnel he had digged on his way to find an exit from ember.

10. Is the mayor trustworthy explain why or why not: The mayor is not trust worthy because he doesn't whant the best for the citizens he only thinks about him self and he eats the food with out sharing and he doesn't whant any one to find out about the box.

11. Why are the mayors men searching for the kids: the mayors men is searching for the kids because they know about the box and how to get to the surface but he doesn't whant any one to know he wants to escape by him self.

12. What do the kids' parents have in common. They tried to find a way out of ember to gether and became good friend but then the tunnel they had builded hot overfloaded and the girl dad died.

13. Make a short summary of the ending: The kids followed the instructions and made it to the surface but there was one problem what were thay going to do to mae the citizens know how to get there they couldn't just leave them there so they tied the istructions to a rock and trowed it down to the citi of ember and the citizens found it and made it to the top.