They discover that their own story is bound up in the tumult threatening. Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake them, spilling them into a cauldron of misadventures. If you finish the book and find yourself wanting more, just look for the sequel, Ember Falls, which follows Heather and Picket into the next part of their tale. Till the Green Ember rises, or the end of the world. Readers will find wonderful, inspiring quotes and some hilarious ones that may well make it into their own worldviews, such as Too little salt is an insult and too much salt is an assault. But we don't end up hating them or assuming that they're idiots, and this is because the book's tone is sympathetic, giving us insights into who they are and why they act the way they do. According to Goodreads, ' My place beside you, my blood for yours. "I forgot all about it! All I was thinking of was getting Poppy and getting to you." (18.60)ĭoh! We're kinda floored that Doon and Lina are smart enough to figure out the incomplete message from the Builders, and yet they make silly mistakes in their follow-through. "The message to Clary!" She put her hand in her pocket and pulled out the crumpled piece of paper. Like at the very end, when they've escaped Ember, Doon asks about the note they'd meant to leave with someone trustworthy: Then you hit submit answers and you will get your results. It is a quiz on which character you are from the book the Green Ember (it is a awesome book series) have fun What you do is read the question and chose what is most like you. They are, after all, only kids, ad they're doing the best they can. The Green Ember Character Quiz Hi, Green Ember book readers We are so glad you chose this Quiz. Sympatheticĭespite the fact that Doon and Lina make some mistakes along the way, we can't help but feel for them. The tone here is serious because obviously it's not mocking Lina's feelings-it's presenting them realistically, and taking seriously the effect of almost losing her sister, all for some frivolous colored pencils. When she held them, she remembered the powerful wanting she had felt in that dusty store, and the feeling of it was mixed up with fear and shame and darkness" (5.80) Like when she loses Poppy during the blackout that happened after her colored pencil craze, she looks at the pencils and thinks, "They were not quite as beautiful as they had been. Yes, Doon, we get it: everything is Serious Business For Serious. That's what Doon was thinking about when he stopped outside the Gathering Hall on his way home and saw Lina on the roof… But how could she be so lighthearted when everything was falling apart?" (3.37). Here's what's going on in his head after his first day working in the Pipeworks: "Running out of light bulbs, running out of power, running out of time-disaster was right around the corner. To Doon and Lina, pressing issues like saving their city affect their attitudes towards everything and everyone-and since they're our main narrators, their attitudes influence how we view the events of the book.ĭoon, of course, is more serious than Lina. When you're a kid in Ember, your life isn't all fun and games (well, except for the parts that are).
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