Blog 22: Notable Moment in City of Ember

The citizens of Ember do not know that they live underground, they just believe that the sky is black. I did not at first think anything of the colors Lina chose for her colored pencils, except to think she would have liked red to match her jacket. But when she and Poppy draw on the can labels, I had an 'ah ha!' moment.

"She put her pencil down for a moment and studies what she had done. It was time to fill in the sky. In the pictures she had done with regular pencils, the sky was its true color, black. But this time she made it blue, since she was using her blue pencil. Methodically, as Poppy scratched and scribbled beside her, Line colored in the space above the buildings, her pencil moving back and forth in short lines, until the entire sky was blue.
She sat back and looked at her picture. Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky." page 136

I thought it was interesting how Lina chose blue as the sky and how she dreamed of bright cities with a light that was not floodlamps. It seems to be a forshadowing tool, but also makes the reader consider that maybe sees things in a dream or something along those lines. What would have made her draw another city with unknown brightness and to add a blue sky at that. Emberites have not been above ground in around 240 years, so where did her ideas come from?