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Ember’s seventh mayor. He was a dishonorable man and when he became ill, he selfishly believed that the box containing the Instructions to leave the city contained the cure. Because of this, the Instructions ended up in the back of a closet. The seventh mayor is Lina’s great-great-grandfather, which is why Lina finds the box in her apartment decades later.
The Seventh Mayor Quotes in The City of Ember
The The City of Ember quotes below are all either spoken by The Seventh Mayor or refer to The Seventh Mayor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2 Quotes
She bent over The Book of the City of Ember and read a few sentences: “The citizens of Ember may not have luxuries, but the foresight of the Builders, who filled the storerooms at the beginning of time, has ensured that they will always have enough, and enough is all that a person of wisdom needs.”
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Chapter 3 Quotes
“Can you explain to me about the generator?” he asked. “Can you tell me how it works?”
The old man just sighed. “All I know is, the river makes it go.”
“But how?”
The man shrugged. “Who knows? Our job is just to keep it from breaking down.”
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The Seventh Mayor Character Timeline in The City of Ember
The timeline below shows where the character The Seventh Mayor appears in The City of Ember. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
The Instructions
...planned for many years and the mayors pass the box on to their successors. The seventh mayor , however, is dishonorable. When he comes down with the coughing sickness, he attacks the...
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Chapter 2
...studies the pictures of all of Ember’s mayors. She doesn’t like the look of the seventh mayor , an ancestor of hers.
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Chapter 4
...only remember or care about things from long ago. Granny says that her grandfather, the seventh mayor , was talking about it before he died, but nobody knows what exactly he was...
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