Family gives you support all the time, believes in you and gives you love. I choose this quote because it show how Doon’s father supports him and trust in Doon’s abilities for the future to make Ember a better place. You’ll do grand things someday, I know you will.” (3.39) Family: All Doon’s life, his father had been saying to him, “You’re a good boy and a smart boy. This quote is relative to the book because is explaining what happen to the people who live in the outside of Ember and help Lina and Doon to know why they where in Ember. Also give us something to continued reading to finish the book and to read the continue of City of Ember. This quote stuck out because give an interesting end of the book. But nothing that remind the past or the memories they have, also they can said nothing about the world they know. I choose this quote because it said that she only can keep materialist things like clothes, shoes, wind-up clock, some soap, an extra pair of glasses. We have been told to say nothing, ever again, about the world we come from”. Bring no books, they said, and no photographs. The Past and Memories: “I have put everything I can into my one suitcase-clothes, shoes, a good wind-up clock, some soap, an extra pair of glasses. Lina asked Doon why did he wanted pipeworker, he said he wanted electrician’s helper but the kid who got the job didn’t want to trade. Doon got the messenger job and Lina got pipeworker, then Doon asked Lina if they wanted to trade so they trade. Lina had always imagined herself with that red messenger jacket, running all through Ember.

This quote is when Doon and Lina are both hoping to get their dream jobs, this happens at the beginning of the book, in the Assignment day. This is also a clear example of how they are different from each other and how they want to accomplish their dreams in a different way. This quote is explaining how since the begging of the book, Doon and Lina were always dreaming and always hoping for a better life and a better future for them.

I choose this quote because it shows how Lina and Doon always make wishes, always have hopes and dreams and it’s an example of what the book always shows us, how Lina and Doon are always hoping and dreaming for something. Lina was making her wish in pictures rather than in words.” (1.7) He repeated it over and over again, his lips moving slightly, as if he could make it come true by saying it a thousand times. “Both the girl and the boy were making urgent wishes. This quote is relative to the book because thanks to this quote interest is born in the book, thanks to the to the thing in the box the main characters can escape the city and finally see the open world. Not like most quotes, this quote is a very elaborate quote, which brings interest to the book by creating a mystery before we know anything about the book This quote stuck out because it gives a spark of interest to the reader. I choose this quote because it shows a perspective of sadness to the reader it shows a spark of interest in the book which is very important because in this small box there are small contents which are of very big importance I choose it because I think it is interesting Dreams and Hopes: “So the first mayor will pass the box to the next mayor, and that one to the next, and so on down through the years, all of them keeping it a secret, all the time?” (The Instructions.11-12)

Quotes from city of ember