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Summary: 200 years before the official plot, a team of builders, architects, doctors, scientists, and workers made a city named Ember. They make a box for instructions to leave Ember (Ember is built underground). The box is passed down from mayor to mayor, and is to automatically open in 200 years. However, the 7th one fails to do so as he dies trying to find a cure for a coughing sickness. 241 years after the builders build Ember, the city is running out of supplies and its power generator is in a state of disrepair. Lina Mayfleet and her former friend, Doon are given jobs at school. After receiving what the other wants, they switch cards and go home. Lina becomes a messenger and Doon a pipe’s worker(maintaining the underground pipes and generator). They both go home and the next day, they start their jobs. One day, Lina finds her grandmother looking for a …show more content…

Lina’s grandmother becomes sick and dies. Lina moves in with her neighbor, Mrs. Mudro. Lina and Doon begin to put the pieces of the paper back together, and discover that there are some supplies, such as canned peaches, creamed corn, etc, that are still left.(those supplies were believed to be gone). They figure out that the mayor has been stealing food, and report him. They go down to the pipeworks, and find the entrance to the place where they escape, finding matches, boats, and instructions. However, when they come back to tell everybody, the mayor has considered them fugitives, and Lina is arrested. She is brought to the mayor, but escapes due to a power outage. Doon and Lina light a lamp with the match, and escape in a boat via the pipeworks. When the reach the end of the pipeworks, they discover that Ember has been built underground and find a diary of the first inhabitants of Ember. They go above ground and discover a forest. They then tie a letter containing the instructions to escape Ember to a rock and throw it down back to Ember. Meanwhile, Mrs. Murdo finds the rock,

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