When the people of Ember try to decide what to do, Tick organizes a group of people to fight back if the people of Sparks try to make them leave by force or continue to deprive them of adequate food. That evening, the village leaders meet and vote (the same) 2-1 to order all former citizens of Ember to leave immediately. Tick Hassler urges them to attack the market stalls, seize food, and run, which some of them do. She returns to Sparks after more than a month, disappointed, and is very surprised by the deteriorating political situation.Īfter the people from Ember are deliberately inflicted with itchy rashes by an unknown person, at a time of extreme heat, angry Emberites start to gather in the town square. There she finds not a beautiful city like she expected, but a crumbling ruin of a metropolis ( San Francisco after the Disaster). Meanwhile, Lina leaves with a roamer who travels to old cities to find treasure, hoping to find the city she has been dreaming of and drawing. Then, Ember's people learn that they will be ejected from the village in the middle of winter, which they had not understood. Sparks' leaders vote 2-1 to stop having Emberites in homes for meals, as was the policy before, and instead have them pick up food to eat elsewhere. The resultant reduction in the quality and quantity of food provided to Emberites only makes them angrier. Vandalism against the people of Ember heightens the anger on both sides. Torren, an unhappy boy from Sparks, destroys a large amount of tomatoes in a furious rage, and then decides to accuse an Emberite (Doon) of the act to further build hatred between the two people. The Emberites have little knowledge of the surface (having been deliberately deprived of such knowledge at the founding of the city, so they would not try to leave), and their ignorance annoys the people of Sparks.
#SPARK PEOPLE SERIES#
Tick Hassler, a former hauler of carts in Ember, organizes a series of projects intended to improve their quality of life and chances for the future, but which tend to be more grandiose than practical.Ĭoncern soon arises about whether there is adequate food for everyone in Sparks if food stocks are insufficient for the winter, it would be disastrous for both groups. They are allowed to stay in the abandoned and decrepit Pioneer Hotel. The leaders of this village, Mary, Ben, and Wilmer, reluctantly agree to take in the refugees for 6 months, theoretically long enough to teach them to survive independently. After following a road for three days, they arrive at the village of Sparks, exhausted and hungry.
#SPARK PEOPLE HOW TO#
The 400+ refugees from the city cannot return, as the city's resources are nearly depleted, and have no idea how to survive on the surface. The story resumes after the evacuation of Ember, an underground city, which has been cut off from the surface for more than 200 years. The Playtone Company (the production company that released the City of Ember film) also purchased the rights to The People of Sparks, but after the box office failure of the first film, plans for the sequel were shelved. It is the second "Book of Ember" in the series, and a sequel to The City of Ember other books in the series include The Prophet of Yonwood and The Diamond of Darkhold. The People of Sparks is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Jeanne DuPrau, published in 2004.
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