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故事发生在一座因急难而建成的城市微光市,微光市的孩子在十二岁时,就要离开学校,开始工作。莉娜想当信使,可是,她抽到的不是信使,而是地下管道工;杜恩想待在地下,他打算研究、修复发电机,解决微光市的危机。但他抽到信使的工作!莉娜发现一份残破的文件,她和杜恩将它拼凑起来,发现那是一份走出微光市的指引……。
The City of Ember  

Ember is a self-maintained city. All food and supplies come from giant
storerooms under the city and a handful of greenhouses. All the books in the
library, apart from the city history "The Book of Ember" and the schoolbooks
"The Book of Letters" and "The Book of Numbers", have been hand written by
residents over the years of Ember. All the light in the city comes from lamps
and floodlights around the city; when these are extinguished, the city is in
complete darkness. The electricity in the city comes from an ancient
hydro-electric generator in the underground Pipeworks; keeping the aging
generator operational is a constant task. Beyond the borders of Ember are the
dark Unknown Regions, which are unexplorable because none of the citizens of
Ember can produce a mobile source of light. Ember was constructed many years ago
by the Builders, but nothing is known about them other than the fact that they
built the City of Ember. The story begins after the construction of the city.
Two of the Builders discuss what will happen when supplies runs low and
conditions become bad, and decide to leave instructions for escape in a special
sealed box, which will open automatically after 200 years, when it will be safe
to leave the city. The box is entrusted to the Mayor of Ember, who passes it
down to the following Mayor when he leaves office. While the Mayors do not know
what the box contains, they keep it safe over the years and do not tell anyone
about it. However, the box is lost and forgotten when the seventh Mayor
unsuccessfully tries to open it, and then dies before he can pass it on to the
next Mayor.

The action then shifts to the year 241 in Ember. After the box quietly clicks
open deep in a closet. It is Assignment Day at the Ember school. On this day,
the 12 year-olds finish their education and enter the workforce. They are
assigned jobs at random by drawing pieces of paper from a bag held by the mayor.
In room 8, one student, Lina Mayfleet, draws the job of Pipe-works Laborer;
which will require her to work underground in the huge Pipeworks that power
Ember and deliver its water, repairing lights and pipes as needed. Another
student, Doon Harrow, becomes a Messenger. The Messengers are Ember's
communication team, who run around the city relaying personal messages between
citizens.

Both Lina and Doon dislike their chosen jobs, and therefore exchange them.
Doon wishes to become an electrician because he is seriously concerned with the
state of the city and the generator. And he says he has some ideas for the
generator. Blackouts and power outages are becoming common in Ember. No one
knows when the generator will stop. In addition, supplies are dwindling,
buildings are crumbling and the city seems to be breaking down piece by piece.
On the job in the Pipeworks, Doon explores the tunnels and tries to discover a
way to save Ember. He even sneaks into the room containing the giant Generator,
but realizes at once that he has no idea how it works, much less how to repair
it.

Lina is thrilled to have the job of Messenger because it allows her to run
and explore every corner of Ember while she delivers her messages. She works
hard, puzzling over secret messages passed to the Mayor from a strange man named
Looper. She also copes with her grandmother's ever failing health, and cares for
her little sister, Poppy.

Poppy discovers an ancient piece of paper in a box in the Mayfleet apartment.
By the time Lina manages to pry it out of the toddler's hands, the paper has
been chewed and torn to pieces, and the writing has been obscured in many
places. Lina hangs on to the scraps, and becomes convinced they hold a special
message. She shows the paper to certain friends and neighbors, including her old
classmate Lizzie Bisco, but nobody has any clues as to its significance.

Lina's grandmother cannot explain the paper either, but incoherently rambles
on about finding "something that was lost". In the middle of one night, she
calls Lina in. She mutters something about a baby, then falls asleep. That
night, she dies. One of the Mayfleet family's neighbors, a kindly woman named
Mrs. Murdo, offers to take Lina and Poppy in. Lina accepts this offer.

Eventually, and thanks to Clary, the greenhouse helper, Doon and Lina piece
the paper together and a friend tells Lina that the message contains
"Instructions for Egress"--instructions to leave Ember. They descend into the
Pipeworks and discover that the instructions are indeed valid, and that the
underground river holds the key to escape from the city. They also discover that
a man named Looper is stealing the disappearing resources of Ember from the
storerooms and giving them to the Mayor in a secret room in the Pipeworks.They
report the Mayor's theft to City Hall, confident that he would be arrested.

However, the Mayor sets his guards upon the pair, and orders their arrest for
"spreading vicious rumors." Before they can tell the residents of Ember about
the Instructions for Egress, they are forced to flee the city. Lina manages to
take her little sister Poppy, and, with Doon, goes down into the Pipeworks and
flees Ember by boat on the underground river.

The river eventually leads to a great rock slope. Poppy discovers a book on
the riverbank; Lina and Doon keep it and bring it along to read later. After a
long and arduous climb, Lina, Doon and Poppy emerge from the rocks into a new
world, where they discover sunlight, moonlight, stars and nature.

This discovery is followed by another one, their history. The battered book
turns out to be a personal journal; reading it, Lina and Doon learn that their
city was founded by a group of one hundred adults and the same number of
children as a measure to guarantee the survival of the human race in a disaster
that obliterated civilization.

Doon and Lina explore a nearby cave. Looking down from a high cliff in the
cave, they are amazed to see Ember below them--and realize that they have been
living underground all along. In a last-ditch effort to save their city's
citizens, the three write a note with the Instructions for Egress, wrap it in
Doon's shirt, and hurl it down into Ember where it is found by Lina's caretaker,
Mrs Murdo.

The People of Sparks  

Throughout the course of the novel, DuPrau references many contemporary items
and people, including the Harry Potter books. Some readers have
theorised that both the village of Sparks and Lina's "dream city" refer to real
locations, specifically Sparks and Atlanta in Georgia. However, in the novel, the
settlers claim that they chose the name of their city after seeing sparks rise
from an ancient truck engine. At one point in the novel, Lina visits a large,
destroyed city on a bay. Characters also refer to a place called Sanazay, a
homophone for San José, perhaps in California. Additionally, in The Prophet
of Yonwood
, the third book in the Ember series, it is implied
that Ember is being built somewhere in California, and that Sparks may be Sparks, Nevada.

The People of Sparks picks up where The City of Ember leaves off. Lina
and Doon have emerged from the underground city to the exciting new world above,
and it isn’t long before they are followed by the other inhabitants of Ember.
The Emberites soon come across a town where they are welcomed, fed, and given
places to sleep. But the town’s resources are limited and it isn’t long before
resentment begins to grow between the two groups. When anonymous acts of
vandalism push them toward violence, it’s up to Lina and Doon to discover who’s
behind the vandalism and why, before it’s too late.

The Prophet of Yonwood  

The story starts off with a young girl named Nickie who is traveling with her
Aunt Crystal to an old house in Yonwood, North Carolina. Nickie's
great-grandfather has died, and the house where he lived, in a neighborhood
called Greenhaven, is inherited by Crystal, who plans to sell it. Over time,
Nickie begins to love the house and finds a girl named Amanda who lives there,
She is there because she used to look after Aurther Green, the great-great
grandfather. Plus, Amanda has a dog named Otis that she gives to Nickie. In
Yonwood, there is a Prophet named Althea Tower who sees the future of the world
in burning flames and smoke, and insists that the entire city quit their "wrong"
ways and start to be good people, so God would be with them. During the time,
verbal conflict between the U.S. and the Phalanx Nations is going on. The U.S.
fears that the Phalanx Nations are trying to send terrorist spies to the U.S.
and they take immediate action, although the U.S. never really goes to war with
them until 50 years later. Nickie meets a boy named Grover who is obsessed with
snakes, but has to give them away because the Bible says that snakes are evil
and a sign of Satan. There is also an old, grumpy man named Hoyt McCoy, who is
mean. In the end of the book, Nickie writes a journal that she hides behind a
rock for someone to read later in the future. In The City of Ember, Lina Mayfleet and Doon
Harrow find the journal when they are escaping/leaving Ember.

The Diamond of Darkhold  
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In the fourth book of Ember, The Diamond of Darkhold, Lina and Doon are
curious when a roamer comes into town with a mysterious book. They trade the
roamer a match for the book and discover it only contains eight pages. On the
front of the book, printed in gold letters, it says, "For the People of Ember."
Since they can't make any sense of the book, they decide to go back to Ember.
There, a family who has moved into the city, captures Doon. While Doon is with
the family they show him a diamond they found just outside Ember. Doon steals
the diamond and escapes from Ember. When Doon meets up with Lina they find more
diamonds and they figure out that the diamonds are lights. They bring back the
new invention which earns the town money and food to last the winter. In the
very end, a strange star in the sky, seen throughout the book, is really a
satellite sent up by Hoyt McCoy which made contact with an alien race. There is
also a glimpse into the future, when a new city has been built.

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Books of Ember

  • The City of
    Ember
    (2003) – This story takes place in a sunless, moonless city where
    the only light comes from electric lamps. As supplies run low and the electrical
    system starts to fail, the city is headed for disaster. Two children, Lina
    Mayfleet and Doon Harrow, take on the task of finding the way out.
  • The
    People of Sparks
    (2004) – The story opens where The City of Ember left
    off, with the residents of the dying city of Ember joining young heroes Lina and
    Doon and making their way to a small settlement, where all at first goes well
    but conflict soon arises.
  • The
    Prophet of Yonwood
    (2006) – This is the third novel in the series.
    However, it is a prequel, rather than a sequel, to the other two books. It is
    set about fifty years before the Disaster and the establishment of Ember, and
    approximately three hundred years before the events of The City of Ember and The
    People of Sparks. The story focuses on a woman's frightening vision of the
    future and the townspeople's reaction to it.
  • The Diamond of Darkhold (2008) –
    The Diamond of Darkhold is the next book in the series. It picks up where The
    People of Sparks
    left off, during the Emberites' first winter aboveground.

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