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By JEANNE DuPRAU




 * //__ The People Of Sparks __//** begins when the people of Ember leave Ember. They arrive at Sparks. The town leaders say the Emberites can stay for 6 months. Torren’s brother comes back and Lina sneaks into his trunk. Torren throws 2 baskets full of tomatoes at the wall and blames it on Doon. Someone wrote on the wall “go back to your cave.” There was another attack was on the Emberites with poison oak. They got mad and went to war. Then the weapon was used, setting the pine tree on fire that Torren was in. What will happen to Torren?



What are the steps for solving a problem? The steps are to **define** your problem, **plan** what your going to do, **act**, and **reflect** on how your plan worked. One example of problem solving is when the citizens of Ember were not getting enough food. The people of Ember defined the problem by having a meeting and discussed the problem. Next they created a plan to tell the citizens of Sparks that they don't get enough food. Then they acted by telling their assigned lunch families that the citizens of Ember do not get enough food. They reflected on it and they decided to go to war because their first attempt failed.







The reading strategy I used was to determine importance.

One example I used was "' Are they people like us, Mama?' a child said. ’or the other kind?'" p. 28 DuPRAU. The quote I used is important because the people of Sparks do not even know what kind of people the citizens of Ember are. Another quote in which I used determining importance is "There'd been winters when people shivered in tents and ate chopped up roots and shriveled nuts. There had been years of drought and plagues of tomato worms and devastating crop failures that meant people had nothing to eat for months but cabbage and potatoes. There had been times when people had to work so hard to stay alive that they sometimes died just from being too tired to go on. No one wanted to go back to those times" p. 47 DuPRAU. The quote is important because the people of Sparks wonder why they should help the people Ember, if they didn't get help in the rough times. The next example of determining importance is "The man looked surprised. ’It just means 'truck,'' he said. ’you know-what people used to drive in the old times. There are millions of them, trucks and cars, everywhere. They used to run on their own, without oxen. They had engines in here.' He rapped on the front of the trunk. ‘You pored stuff called gasoline on the engine, and it made the wheels turn. Now, since we don't have gasoline anymore, we take the engines out and make the truck light and easy to pull" p. 51 DuPRAU. This quote is an example of determining importance because the people of Sparks lost all their resources they had from the old days, which would have made their life much easier. The last quote in which I determine importance is “Chugger released his arm with a push. ‘I’ll be keeping a special eye on you from now on,’ he said. But why?’ said Doon. ‘I didn’t do this.’ ‘How do I know that?’ said Chugger. ‘It’s your word against his. And he’s the one of us’” p. 171 DuPRAU. The quote is an example of determining importance because the theme of picking sides is repeated throughout the story. In other words, Chugger is saying that Doon is not trust worthy because he is an Ember citizen.

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