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The People of Sparks (City of Ember Book 2)

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You can read our full interviews with director Gil Kenan here and with Saoirse Ronan and Harry Treadaway here! The City of Ember is alone in the world. Light bulbs provide the only source of light. But the city is starting to wear out and supplies are running low. Lina and Doon, 12-year-old recent graduates of school, are the only ones willing and able to solve the problem. A little boy, in a fit of anger, imagines that "The Weapon" may be some sort of bomb and then imagines/wishes that he could use this supposed bomb to blow up individuals he doesn't like and the hotel in which the people of Ember are staying. Fire is mentioned but there are no are no other details to his imaginings.

They’ve already done this a few times, and they’ll be doing it a quite a few times more. That’s what you spend the other ten percent of your time doing on a film set. In between Gil comes out to give them notes. Video village is nestled behind a wall somewhere else – there just isn’t enough room on the set proper – so he tends to stand behind the camera and give notes personally. Unlike the actors though, he gets to be on the set with a parka on. Despite the cold it actually does look like a great deal of fun. Saoirse and Harry both seem to think so as they told us later [which you can read here]. Jane Loughrey (March 7, 2007). "Hanks' firm to shoot film in Belfast's Titanic Quarter". UTV. Archived from the original on May 25, 2007 . Retrieved April 27, 2007.

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The people of Ember have emerged from their underworld, and have found Sparks--a village that has survived the Disaster. I liked reading about the people of Ember seeing sun for the first time, figuring out that it rises and sets--and green grass--and finding fruit growing in the wild...and encountering people. I liked how City of Ember had electricity--and the post-Disaster village of Sparks had plenty of comforts and innovations that Emberites had never seen, but no electricity. Pero ambos personajes logran recordar y volver a ser quienes eran, a hacer lo correcto a pesar de las peleas y las malas influencias, igual que en el primer libro. The books are set in a post-apocalyptic world. The world is healing; things start to get better, but the world is still almost empty of civilization, and destroyed, abandoned cities loom everywhere. This is the world to which the citizens of Ember emerge from the deep, and how many astonishing things are waiting for them! Things they haven't known, such as the sun, trees, stars, the changing seasons... and war. When an unspecified global catastrophe looms, an underground city known as Ember is constructed to shelter a large group of survivors. In addition, a small metal box intended for a future generation of Emberites is timed to open after 200 years. This box is entrusted to the Mayor of the City of Ember, and each Mayor passes it on to their successor. When the seventh Mayor dies suddenly, the succession is broken, and over time, the box's significance is forgotten. The box opens by itself at the allotted time, but it goes unnoticed. Several decades later, Ember's generator begins to fail, and food, medicine and other necessities are in dangerously short supply. The apartment itself also has the one thing no other building in the city has; a functional roof. A scene later in the film, which second unit will be shooting part of later today when Saoirse and Harry trade places, calls for Doon to climb out of the apartment onto the ledge of the roof to get away from the city guards.

Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.” DuPrau's characterization of Doon is one dimensional. His spurts of rage create the only complexity in an otherwise flat character. Lina, on the other hand, rings true as a 12-year old throughout the book, with one exception: when her grandmother dies, Lina’s grieving process is so brief it feels like the author has ignored something very important. I wish this didn't preach quite so much, but I will read the last book in the trilogy because I want to see where it goes. Sutton, Roger (May–June 2003). "Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember". Horn Book Magazine. 79 (3): 343. ISSN 0018-5078.It’s strangely fitting then that his own art department has taken over in here, setting up some concept art from the film, to give some context to the set we’ve just seen. We’re in green here because we’re in the tunnels, where Doon is learning his job. We built all the round shapes, and we built all these pipes in. And down here, up in the ceiling, is where Doon first discover’s the store room above. He comes up and opens up the hatch and comes into the store room we just passed. So we had to make it structurally sound as well, so we could have our actors on it. And when we have all the smoke and water on in here, it’s really fun.”

These doors here where you walked through there, are the doors from the Gathering Hall,” Martin tells us. “We came and shot the Gathering Hall, which is the little hallway just inside, here at this location and then we reproduced those doors and built them on the set so that we could shoot the exteriors inside.” Which sounds as unintuitive, but makes perfect sense when you’ve built your own city. The only other location shooting they’ve done was for Lina and Doon’s school, which was shot inside of an actual old school building just down the road. But how could you?" said Lina. "When people have been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?" Doon serves as the reader's guide to watching two struggling groups of people dealing with hardships and sacrifices as the Emberites are taught about life in the new world and how to survive above ground. He feels the sting of hostility as the people of Sparks grow resentful of the Emberites consuming their food and other resources. That resentment grows into mistrust and eventually sparks begin to fly (pardon the pun). The characters in this book are interesting, and I found I liked nearly all of them. The characters that are portrayed as villains, have many different layers, and are not just evil, and the character that is portrayed as a sort of hero has many different sides to him. I think Jeanne DuPrau did a great job at coming up with a variety of characters, that are thought provoking and interesting to read about. Unlike other books, I found myself drawn to every aspect of the story, not just one characters adventure. With more than 3.5 million copies sold, the City of Ember books are modern-day classics. Lina and Doon’s heart-pounding journey to save their people has captivated readers around the world, and the four adventures are bound together here for the very first time!The weak writing, admittedly present in City of Ember, is more apparent here in the second book...and the story is a bit overbearing & heavyhanded with its message, at the expense of the story-unfolding... The message is peace-keeping and war-avoiding though, so I guess I have a bit of leniency for the message-hammering. In the English system you start by learning architecture. Actually you’re first job is making tea. English art departments are regimented by how you’re supposed to make the tea, based on colors charts. You use different shades to tell which teas everyone wants. It’s hell,” he laughs. “Then you work your way up to assistant where you have to learn to do the drawing and set design and all that kind of stuff. But it does give you a good grounding so that when you do become a production designer you know what all the different disciplines are. And occasionally I make the tea.” The photo’s and the room itself are actually quite familiar to Martin, from his time working on James Cameron’s Titanic a decade earlier. “Titanic’s there on the left hand side, already under construction, and then if you look over there on the right, Olympics already left. And then the building on the right hand side is actually this building. It’s weird, we looked at all of these pictures during ‘Titanic’ then to actually come here…”

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