City of Ember: Chapter Six

In chapter six, The Box in the Closet, Lina went to a town meeting about the problems in the city. The Mayor began to talk, but eventually, the people of Ember got upset because what they thought the Mayor was lying. The Mayor said he had "solutions" to solve the problem, but the people didn't believe him, so the Mayor ran away before anything got crazy, as did Lina. Doon and his father had a talk about how strange the mayor was, and about Doon's problem with anger. Then, when Lina got home, she found Granny searching threw the apartment closet, looking for the thing she said her father told her about. Then Lina looked behind the couch to fin Poppy and an open box. When she asked what was in the box, she noticed Poppy, eating the papers that were in the box.

QUESTIONS: What kind of papers do you think Poppy was eating? Were they important? What kind of solutions do you think the Mayor has for the city?