The City of Ember
By: Jeanne DuPrau
Contrast
When contrasting things, look closely to find all thing that are different between
them.
• How does what you are reading contrast with a novel you were assigned to read
in school and didn’t like reading.
• Contrast the theme of what you are reading with something you read last
month.
• What would be a good contrast to the setting of what you are reading?
This novel "The City of Ember" is different from a book that I didn't like and was assigned to me from school because it is based off of something that could really happen. I'm not saying that this book is realistic fiction but it is a certain possibility. Another reason why this book is different from a book I didn't like from school is because we don't necessarily pick what kind of topic and book we want to read. For instance, we are assigned a book called "Touching Spirit Bear" which is a book I really enjoyed. After that I was given a larger variety of books and chose "The City of Ember" which was a book I was interested in. That is the big difference. We aren't able to view the book before it's assigned so we go into a book without having an idea what is happening.
The theme of this book is more of a crisis and last resort, but in the other book i read last month was about love and hate and new beginnings. What the name of that book was "Of Mice and Men". Those are two completely different themes of books which is what I like to do. I enjoy going from one topic to another instead of staying along the lines of one topic with another. Although I really loved the book "Of Mice and Men" it is a major difference in theme. I also read a book called "I Even Funnier" which had the theme of funny. In the book I'm reading that is extremely different because the book is pretty serious and interesting. These are entirely different books that'll never fit in the same column.
A good contrast of the setting that we are reading is Berwyn. Ember is an entirely different location and the way it is much more different than Berwyn. For example, in Berwyn we all go to school until we are 23-24 and in Ember it is when they are 12. In Berwyn we have a lot of food and markets everywhere. In Ember there is barely any food and not many places to get them from. One of the key things that Berwyn has that Ember doesn't is light and power. Ember doesn't have any of that. In "The city of Ember they have a broken generator that if they don't fix in time they will have a full city black out. That is what they have many of there workers doing is trying to save and conserve the "The City of Ember".
The theme of this book is more of a crisis and last resort, but in the other book i read last month was about love and hate and new beginnings. What the name of that book was "Of Mice and Men". Those are two completely different themes of books which is what I like to do. I enjoy going from one topic to another instead of staying along the lines of one topic with another. Although I really loved the book "Of Mice and Men" it is a major difference in theme. I also read a book called "I Even Funnier" which had the theme of funny. In the book I'm reading that is extremely different because the book is pretty serious and interesting. These are entirely different books that'll never fit in the same column.
A good contrast of the setting that we are reading is Berwyn. Ember is an entirely different location and the way it is much more different than Berwyn. For example, in Berwyn we all go to school until we are 23-24 and in Ember it is when they are 12. In Berwyn we have a lot of food and markets everywhere. In Ember there is barely any food and not many places to get them from. One of the key things that Berwyn has that Ember doesn't is light and power. Ember doesn't have any of that. In "The city of Ember they have a broken generator that if they don't fix in time they will have a full city black out. That is what they have many of there workers doing is trying to save and conserve the "The City of Ember".
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