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Who is Nathan Warren and how has he learned of Nollop’s predicament? [44-5] What vital and disturbing piece of news does he bring with him from the States? [50] What does he propose to do with this information? [51-3]

When council representatives come to confiscate Rory Cummel’s property, they tell him they are only doing the will of Nollop and that “There is no other Supreme Being but Nollop” [p. 121]. Seen in light of recent events, in the Middle East and elsewhere, can the novel be read as a commentary on religious authoritarianism? What does the novel suggest about the dangers of humans assuming they know God’s will with absolute certainty? If that all sounds very meta, it is. Written in 2001, Ella Minnow Pea has become somewhat of a modern classic given the novelty of its structure along with its not-so-subtle themes of totalitarianism, censorship, and freedom of speech. You see, the fictional island’s government bans the use of various letters and inflicts punishment on citizens for each infraction. Dr. Mannheim is a professor at the local university. He plays a vital role in the attempt to find a pangram that fits the qualifications set by the council (also known as Enterprise 32). He and Tom, his assistant, lead the way in finding a sentence. He manages to create a sentence that is 37 letters in length, but his quest for a 32-letter sentence is ended abruptly when he refuses banishment and is shot and killed by island officials. The farce in Ella Minnow Pea is comparable to George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Indeed both books take similar themes, for example utopia Vs. dystopia, or being a good citizen Vs. being a moral person. These are questions still very much relevant today, particularly the plight of Nollop citizens. Do they stay in their homes, where they were born and raised, despite the absurdity of the laws and the threat to their lives? Or should they leave friends and family behind for safety? To teachers we suggest also that this is an ideal text for school-reading -- students can learn from both the method and the message (plus it's just plain good fun).)

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For story, character, plot and reality lovers, however, the story isn't quite as accomplished. The author's not very subtle dig at organized religion as a vehicle for the blindly obedient to carry out the wishes of non-existent tyrannical beings got on my nerves. Likewise, the characters were so poorly developed that I was never quite sure who the letters were being written by or to whom they were being sent. As their relationships with each other was never the point of the book, however, I let it slide.

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And the people nodded, smiled, and did nothing to stop the madness. After all, it's the leaders' job to lead, right? And why would the leaders want bad things for us? After all, we all want the best and the brightest to flourish, right? Mark is co-author with NJRC composer-in-residence Merek Royce Press of Octet: A Concert Play, which received its world premiere at NJRC in 2000. Two of his plays, Helen’s Most Favorite Day and Dix Tableaux, have gone on to publication and national licensing by Samuel French. His novels include the award-winning Ella Minnow Pea, Welcome to Higby, Ibid, the children’s novel The Calamitous Adventures of Rodney and Wayne, Under the Harrow and Feral Park. In addition to its lipograms and pangrams, does Ella Minnow Pea contain any other verbal patterns? Does the language of one chapter, for example, telegraph which letter will fall in the next? Is “Not, though, when L. E. goons motor through–their horns wailing. Hooligans.” [139] an anagram, or does it just look like one? Is the name “Nollop” a pun for “No l-o-p?” There is also the possibility that the very density of the novel’s linguistic surface is meant to tease readers into looking for codes where none exist. Is Mark Dunn playing a game with us? With this in mind, you may wish to look at such works of literature as George Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual, Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose or Jorge Luis Borges’ stories, “The Circular Ruins” and “Death and the Compass.”

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Apocalypse How, Class 0: Regional societal collapse, brought on by the deportation of nearly everyone. Even after Enterprise 32 succeeds, it's unclear whether Nollop will have a working society again. On the 24th of July, Tassie responds to Ella letting her know that their librarian that with this new law, all books with the letter ‘Z’ will also be prohibited. And then it is the bees must go, as their language is a relentless zzzzzz. Then it is a young man, Master William Creevy, who ’doesn’t believe in obeying laws made by madmen’ is now one step away from being banished. Spell My Name With An S: Mittie learns the hard way that the fishmonger Zenia's name is not spelled with an X like she thought.And so, I was interested to see how Dunn would deal with his self-imposed restrictions as letters became less available to him in this land of inflated rhetoric, but suddenly near the end, the Council declares that it is permissible for citizens to write in homonyms for forbidden “graphemes” (leading to some nonsense-looking passages as in the first quote), while of course, not being allowed to speak aloud in homonyms (yet in an epistolary novel, the writing is all we see; there’s simply no drama here). It wasn't until I told someone, out loud, what I was reading that I realized the title, Ella Minnow Pea, really sounded like the "LMNOP" of the alphabet song. Now, of course, I have no idea how I missed it. Ella Minnow Pea. LMNOP. Obvious. So obvious I wonder what else I missed. Such a clever title. Such a clever book. Describe the demise of Georgeanne Towgate. [175-181] Do you think the manner of her death reflects her personality or it a response to the rigors of life in an alphabetically-deprived society? Help arrives and a solution is found but not before the struggle to communicate becomes terribly arduous -and hilariously phonetic- there being only scant letters to work with.

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The US government shutdown today is being done in opposition to Obamacare. Given the idea that Obama care is "The Final Solution" (see the image below), it is not surprising that purist politicians have a "take no prisoners" attitude. After all, one cannot compromise with the Devil.

WARNING - This is MY FAVORITE book of all time, so there will be gooing, gushing and shameless pluggery! Ella Minnow Pea is a charming and clever fable of unlikely design, full of anything but idle wordplay. Proponents of free speech frequently ignore the impact of lies on passions and emotions, of the inability of people to process information rationally and logically. How many in the WEIRD countries are aware of the tragedy sweeping through Myanmar right now because radical Buddhists have been spreading lies about their fellow Muslims citizens? People are being killed and burnt alive because of these lies.