Characters
This character refuses to fit in with the fearful townspeople and quietly continues his unusual hobbies.
Who is Hoyt McCoy?
Nickie travels to Yonwood because her aunt has inherited this.
What is an old family house?
What worldwide concern hangs over Yonwood throughout the novel?
What is the threat of nuclear war?
This emotion spreads quickly through Yonwood after the Prophet's vision.
What is fear?
What causes people to begin creating new rules about everyday behavior?
What is the Prophet's vision?
Nickie realizes this elderly woman is less interested in selling the house than preserving its history.
Who is Aunt Crystal?
Nickie first becomes suspicious that the town's rules have gone too far after seeing people react this way.
What is treating harmless activities as dangerous or sinful?
Why are many people especially willing to believe the Prophet's warnings?
Because they are already anxious about world events and possible war.
The book teaches readers to think carefully instead of simply believing these.
What are rumors or panic?
How does Mrs. Beeson's interpretation of the prophecy affect the town?
This town leader gains influence by claiming to understand the Prophet's visions.
Who is Mrs Beeson?
The hidden papers Nickie discovers reveal information connected to this former owner of the house.
Who is her great-grandfather?
This book takes place before these famous Ember novels.
What are The City of Ember, The People of Sparks, and The Diamond of Darkhold?
Nickie often solves problems by showing this quality toward others.
What is kindness or compassion?
Why does Nickie continue asking questions when most adults stop questioning the Prophet?
She wants evidence instead of assumptions.
This young friend helps Nickie investigate the mysteries of Yonwood instead of simply accepting rumors.
Who is Grover Persons?
Nickie discovers that the Prophet's words are difficult to understand because of this.
What is that Althea is confused and doesn't fully understand her own vision?
Many people gather here to hear messages connected to the Prophet's vision.
What is the Church of the Fiery Vision?
Hoyt McCoy reminds readers not to judge people based only on this.
What are first impressions or appearances?
What effect does fear have on the townspeople's relationships?
People become suspicious, judgmental, and less trusting of one another.
This character's frightening vision sparks the town's panic, even though she never intentionally tries to control the people of Yonwood.
Who is Althea Towers?
What event near the end of the novel proves that the townspeople's strict behavior did not actually prevent disaster?
The feared catastrophe never happens because it was never caused or prevented by their rules.
The story takes place about this many years before Ember is built.
What is about 50 years?
Why is The Prophet of Yonwood considered a prequel instead of a sequel?
Because it explains events that happened decades before the City of Ember was built.
How does Nickie's investigation change her understanding of the Prophet?
She realizes Althea is not predicting the future clearly but describing confusing images she doesn't fully understand.