The Prophet of Yonwood

This book is the Third book in the City of Ember series. It is a really confusing book though. See it is about this ten year old girl, Nickie. It takes place in North Carolina during the Crisis. When U.S.A was in this on going fight with the Phalanx Nations. Not really a war just an argument sort of. People thought that there was going to be a war and the world would be over. This book takes place in Yonwood. It is an ity-bity town. The people there were trying to build a shield of goodness. So that when the war hit God would protect them. There was a woman there her name was Athelea Tower. She had this vision, right after the vision she became ill. She kept muttering things like, no sinnies and no likes. No one could tell what they meant but they thought that it was she was becoming an object of which God could talk though. This is where I think that everything becomes a little harsh. There is this Counsel. They are the Tower members. What the Tower members do is they try to interpret what The Prophet(Athelea) means. Then once they decide it is reasonable they go around trying to get everyone to stop doing that thing. For instance if she said no singing. Then all radios would go off, no one would sing in the shower, and people would wince when the heard bird song. I think that all of that is silly. But then in such a small town it seems that everyone has a say, and there is no real head person. It is just that it is like they are over reacting. See if the find you doing something wrong, and you don't stop they put this impossible to break bracelet on you and it runs on like, an everlasting battery. It goes MMMMMMMMM-mmmmmmmm MMMMMMM-mmmmmmm. Ultimately if you don't stop they never take it off and it drives you crazy. I think that is silly but with something as big as the world about to be over I guess it's a little like when people thought someone might be a witch. You are just so scared you don't know what to do. So at the time it seems like the perfect solution. The whole book though I was trying to figure out how it tied into City of Ember and The People of Sparks. I finally gave up trying to make connections and said to myself that I was to young to remember.( My mom read them aloud to me) I turns out though, that it is actually the Prequel. But Jeanne DuPrau ( the author) wanted them to be read that way. Even though this book is confusing I hope that you read this trilogy.