Blog for week 11/11/15-The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau

Prompts used:
-Determine theme/ analyze its development throughout the novel
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The book I recently finished is The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau. It's a fantasy novel.     
      The setting also drives a theme, survival. The book takes place in a post-postapocalyptic world. Everything is rejuvenated, and dotted in the rubble of cities. Among that are the settlements, pioneer-like places, where people have begun to live again.
     The plot heavily drives a theme of hate.  First, somebody smashed some tomatoes, leading to the accusation of an Emberite. Then, somebody writes "go home cave-people" in the town square. This leads to another retaliatory Emberite attack, which itself leads to the Emberites getting poison oaked. By this point, war is about to start, so the mayor attempts to force them to leave. They don't, so he pulls out an old machine gun, which explodes. That, in turn, heavily damages the Emberites' home.
      The plot shows another theme:reinvention. The Emberites reinvent themselves, like a city dweller moving to a very rural area, and kind of fail at it for a while. They eventually get the hang of it, and by the end of the book, they've sort of got it. This is a different lifestyle, with different jobs needed, hence reinvention. 

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