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The head of the Rasmussen family, whose members stage a demonstration during a Council meeting by wearing cartoon duck masks and quacking after the letter “Q” is banned. Charles and his entire family are then publicly flogged—a haunting visual for the citizens, particularly due to the fact that this includes two nine-year-old girls. The Rasmussens subsequently leave Nollop, seeing that no one else stands up in protest of their abuse.
Charles Rasmussen Quotes in Ella Minnow Pea
The Ella Minnow Pea quotes below are all either spoken by Charles Rasmussen or refer to Charles Rasmussen. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3 Quotes
And so Mum and Pop and I stood and watched the harrowing and loathsome sight of children being ritually beaten, and the commensurately disturbing picture of frightened onlookers—“the town baa-baas,” as Pop has taken to calling our dear neighbors—doing what they do oh so very well, and that is: absolutely nothing.
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Charles Rasmussen Character Timeline in Ella Minnow Pea
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Chapter 3
...masks and making loud duck sounds, which are obviously forbidden. The head of the household, Charles, explained that the family was fond of “Q” and they wanted to protest its removal...
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Charles continued to explain that he wanted the family—including his nine year-old twin daughters—to be flogged...
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