First 50 pages - The PEOPLE of SPARKS

Lina and Doon manage to find the way out of the City of Ember. Once out Lina and Doon wrote a message to the people of the city along with the directions to the way out.  400 people were able to escape, but many were left behind because the underground city was now pitched black. The mayor of Ember died while trying to escape with his valuable belongings without helping his people escape with him. Many people of Ember drowned in the river or were trampled because of so many people trying to leave at once. All 400 people ended up arriving at a village called sparks after a 2 day's walk from Ember. The people of sparks are concerned that there lying because they never heard about the underground city. The three leaders do offer there help and provied them with some shelter with food and water. The  3 leaders of Sparks meet and agree on helping the people of Ember for 6 months and try to teach them everything they can to help them survive on there own. The leaders of Sparks want to help more, but don't want to go back to when their village was in ruins because of horrible leaders. Their village had just again begun to prosper.