A City with no Sun

Author's Note: This is a piece that is about two quotes in the book The City of Ember and how they are very important to the story.

Quotes are very important to stories.  If there were no quotes then it would be hard to know what the characters are feeling and thinking.  The two quotes in this short response really stood out to me with their importance to the story.   

There are two quotes that are very important to this story.  The first quote is "Can you explain to me about the generator?" asked Doon page 48.  This is very important to this story in many ways one reason is because, Doon, one of the main characters wants to know and explore the generator to help the problem with the lights. The light problem is that the city is running out of light bulbs and the lights are dying, this would not be such a problem for our world because we have a sun but in the City of Ember the sun does not exist.  Unfortunately no one in the city knows how the generator works even the people that have been working there for decades.  Now Doon needs to figure out how the generator works on his own.  

This quote really affects the story, the reason that is, is because Doon is a very smart guy he knows how to take apart and put together almost anything by just looking at it.  The one thing he cannot figure out is the city's generator.  This really makes Doon mad because Doon asked "Can you tell me how it works?" page 48.  But no one who works of the generator could tell him a thing. All the workers do is replace and take off wheels, knobs and things like that when they are breaking.  

I think that the generator in these situations could be a metaphor for life.  When the generator dies; then Ember will die too.  This is why I believe that Doon is so interested in trying to repair the generator.  Also Doon is a very curios guy that wants to know how everything works.  This is both a good thing and a bad thing.  His curiosity might end him up in some trouble.