1. Write down the description of Ember at the top of p77. What kind of image do the colours create in your mind? Embers colours were all so much the same-gray buildings, gray streets , black sky; even the colours of peoples clothes were faded from long use into mud-green, and rust-red, and –gray-blue.
  2. Why does Lina have trouble finding Poppy after she wanders away from the store? There was a massive black out. The blackness was like a wall of pure obsidian you could not move it was pressing in like a tiger stalks its pray.
  3. Why don’t the coloured pencils bring Lina happiness? They were not as pretty as she first thought. Also they remained her of the black out and that she almost lost poppy.
  4. Why does the crowd show anger towards the mayor in the meeting? He acts like there is nothing wrong with ember and that it is like it always has been. Nothing has happened they are in there prim state wealth and produce are in massive amounts there store room are full like a cheater after it has eaten.
  5. What does Doon believe a good leader should do? Take response ability for his or her actions and should find and look for solutions to problems that arise from the city.
  6. What is the significance of the box and the paper that is found in the closet? They are the instruction to fined there way out of the city and to fined the solution to the problem of ember.
  7. Personification is a figurative device where an inanimate object or thing is given human qualities or actions. Read this excerpt from p79 and explain what is being personified and what the effect is:

But the darkness pressed against her and she couldn’t summon her voice. She could hardly breath. She wanted to claw the darkness away from her eyes, as if it were someone’s hand.

  1. Mood is the overall atmosphere or feeling of a story. Happiness or sadness, terror or tranquillity – mood can be any strong emotion or feeling the author creates, often by using descriptive details. Read this passage from p79 then explain what the mood is and identify the words that establish that mood:

She began to tremble, and she felt the sinking and dissolving inside her that meant she was going to cry. Her legs gave way like wet paper and she slid down until she was sitting on the street, with her head on her knees. Trembling, her mind a whirl of wordless dread, she waited. A moan came from some were to the left. A door slammed closed footsteps started then stopped.