The setting of the award winning novel The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau is a dark and gloomy place where the only sources of lights happen to be awkwardly placed street lamps. Also the city of Ember is surrounded by total darkness and nobody knows what is out in that darkness. These both create an eerie and weird feeling for everyone in the mystical city.
This setting affects the plot because the whole plot consists and leads up to one thing, and that is getting out of Ember. Lina and Doon, the two main characters, are starting to find a way out because the city is starting to lose all of its electricity and supplies for their citizens. So if this wasn’t the main problem in the story and all of the lights were working perfectly, then it would not be part of the plot at all. A different setting, such as a bright and sunny city, there would be no needs at all to find either a different way power the city or a way to escape the city. It would lastly affect the citizens of the city and the main characters, because everybody would be happy instead of mad and everybody would live more in harmony. Not fighting each other for the last light bulb.
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