The Big Secret

Authors Note: This creative piece is about the main characters secret, in The City of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau. This is the scene if Doon and Lina had told everybody about the secret room down in the Pipe works.

            Imagine a world of darkness and scarcity, scarcity of everything from food, water, light, and even the hope of survival. In The City of Ember Doon and Lina the two main characters have a big secret and they are holding it in so that the city doesn’t go crazy.

            When Doon is in the pipe works he finds a room and he is confused what it is used for until, he tries to open it and he finds a key in the knob of the door. While looking inside he finds a big blob on the couch. As he investigates even more he realizes that it is the Mayor in a hidden room full of supplies that the mayor has been Hording for himself. Then Doon immediately tells Lina the big news.

            When Doon tells Lina the big news, Doon and Lina are put into a situation that they don’t want to be in. The situation is that they can either tell the people about it and they may go crazy and attack the mayor, or they could keep quiet and have their own little secret. Then when Doon and Lina find out a way to get out of the city they are put in a even bigger situation, because if they tell people they would save everybody, but if they tell everybody they may go crazy and hurt other people.

            When Lina and Doon try to find a way to get out of the city using “The Instructions for Egress” they eventually do find a way out of the city. Then they write the note they were going to give it to Clary they forget about it and they leave the city, and get out for good!

            When scavenging around they find a crevice in the ground and when they go in the get stopped not by a wall but by a sheer drop, and when they look down they see ember. Then they realize that if they put the note in something that will make if fall to the ground someone will get the note. So Doon puts the note in his shirt puts a rock in his shirt and throws it down to ember.

            After that happens the people of ember will get the note realize that Doon and Lina are missing and try to escape out of the pipe works, in the process many people will get selfish and fight people over the boats like Lina predicted when they were deciding to tell everybody about the escape route. Then the older people that are living in Ember will stay and the younger generation will leave for the new world. The reason that will happen is because of Lina saying that the journey is tough and that the older generation won’t want to risk it and the younger more eager generation will. Then since the younger generation is making the trip they will have shorter fuses and will fight over the boats and the candles.

            When Darkness and scarcity run over a population people tend to worry and freak out, but then you get that small group of people who want to solve the issue. In The City of Ember there is less than a group. There is two people who want to save the city and they believe that they do when they get out and give the note to the people.