Food in Ember | Characters | Ember | Lina and Doon's Adventure | Assignment Day |
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Canned foods, potatoes, etc.
What kinds of foods did they have in Ember?
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Tall, thin, brown hair, 12 years old, fast.
What did Lina look like?
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All the light in the city comes from lamps and floodlights; when these are extinguished, the city is completely dark, with no stars, sun, or moon.
Where does the lighting come from?
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Doon and Lina explore a nearby cave. Looking down from a high cliff in the cave, they are amazed to see Ember below them--and realize that they have been living underground all along.
What happens when Lina, Poppy and Doon get out of Ember?
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Lina wanted the messenger job.
What job did Lina want?
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The people in Ember eat these foods because it is the only thing they have in Ember. They have no sun light to grow fruit and they don't have any meat because they don't have any live stock.
Why do the people in Ember eat these types of foods?
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Curly red afro hair style
What did Lizzy look like?
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The box was supposed to open automatically after 220 years.
When was the box supposed to open?
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The note had the Instructions for Egress.
What did the note, that Lina, Doon and Poppy wrote, say?
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Red.
What color are messenger jackets?
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The greenhouse doesn't grow fruits because it doesn't have enough sunlight for the fruits to grow.
Why doesn't the greenhouse grow fruits?
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Tall, dark brown hair, brown eyes.
What did Doon look like?
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Ember has Assignment Day to keep the city under control and organized.
Why does Ember have Assignment Day?
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It is found by Lina's guardian, Mrs. Murdo.
Who found the note that Lina, Doon, and Poppy wrote when they got out of Ember?
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Electrician.
What job did Doon originally want?
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The beehives allow the people of Ember to have a little bit more food other than fruits and potatoes.
Why do the people of Ember have beehives?
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They were old friends.
What was the relationship between Lizzy and Lina?
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On this day, the 12 year olds finish their education and enter the workforce. They are assigned jobs at random by the withdrawal of pieces of paper from a bag held by the mayor.
How does Assignment Day work?
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Spreading malicious gossip. Lina and Doon find that the mayor has been stealing from the city's reserves. When they report him to the guards, the guards want to keep it a secret. They charge Lina and Doon with lying.
What are Lina and Doon wanted for?
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Doon wanted the pipeworks job since that was the closest thing to the electrician job.
Why did Lina and Doon switch jobs?
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There is no sunlight in Ember to grow grains and other things like that.
Why doesn't the greenhouse grow grains?
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Messenger.
What was Doon's original job?
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the box is lost and forgotten when the seventh Mayor unsuccessfully tries to open it and then dies before he can pass it on to his successor.
What happened to the box that held the instructions?
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The school.
Where do Lina and Doon hide when the guards are looking for them?
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Pipeworks Laborer.
What was Lina's original job?
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