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Amos Minnow Pea
Ella’s mother and Amos’s wife. When the High Island Council begins banning the use of any letters on the tiles that fall from Nevin Nollop’s commemorative statue, Gwenette is initially able to avoid using receiving offenses, unlike her sister Mittie. Gwenette is supportive of Ella and Amos and she joins in their efforts to set up resistance meetings with other citizens. Gwenette’s first problems arise when she intentionally uses the word “diminished” after the letter “D” has been banned and she receives two offenses immediately. Gwenette is later expelled from the island when L.E.B. officers come to interrogate her at the Minnow Peas’ home and she slips up and uses an illegal letter.
Gwenette Minnow Pea Quotes in Ella Minnow Pea
The Ella Minnow Pea quotes below are all either spoken by Gwenette Minnow Pea or refer to Gwenette Minnow Pea. 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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Chapter 5 Quotes
A little not-so-positive news: Amos has been caught in offense number two. In last night’s poker game. It was such a foolish mistake. It might have gone without report except that Morton who owes him money chose to employ outright extortion against poor, hapless Amos. Amos’s preference was for not playing along. Imagine the effrontery: Morton attempting to ignore the offense in exchange for clearance of a rather large financial obligation. Amos thought, of course, that Morton was bluffing. Unfortunately, in this particular game, it turns out, Morton was not.
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Gwenette Minnow Pea Character Timeline in Ella Minnow Pea
The timeline below shows where the character Gwenette Minnow Pea appears in Ella Minnow Pea. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2
Ella tells Tassie how, the day before, she, her mother Gwenette, and her father Amos took a walk together and spoke freely with one another. Ella...
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In a note left on the Minnow Peas’ kitchen table, Amos writes to Gwenette that he has gone to the town center to do a bit of work for...
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Gwenette writes back to Tassie, noting that Mittie has to be very careful about what she...
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Chapter 3
Mittie writes to her sister Gwenette that without two letters, she now chooses to “overuuuse the twenty-four which remaaaain.” She says...
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...an outcry, they wanted to leave the island as quickly as possible. And so Ella, Gwenette, and Amos watched the horrifying sight of the Rasmussen children being beaten, and yet no...
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Ella tells Tassie that she, Amos, and Gwenette plan to hold a secret meeting to begin a “nascent underground movement” to restore the...
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Chapter 5
Mittie writes to Gwenette saying that she cannot teach without “that grammatical unifier” (the word “and”). She states that...
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The Office of the High Council writes to Gwenette, informing her that all letters are being scanned for illicit letters of the alphabet by...
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Two days later, Gwenette writes to Mittie that they should use a different mail service in order to evade...
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Gwenette writes to Mittie, saying that the Council has determined that they can continue to use...
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Chapter 8
Gwenette writes to Mittie with horrible news, saying that the Council has Tassie in custody and...
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Amos writes a letter to Ella and Gwenette, saying that he is about to be expelled from the island and that he cannot...
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Chapter 9
...and that she has been told nothing. Two days later, Nate writes to Mittie at Gwenette’s house, saying that he has stowed away back to Nollop to come rescue Tassie.
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The following day, Gwenette writes to Ella explaining that while Ella was trying to visit Tassie, the L.E.B. was...
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Chapter 11
Georgeanne Towgate leaves a letter on Ella’s door, hoping that Mittie now lives with Gwenette. Georgeanne explains that she has moved to Nollopton and she apologizes again for what she...
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Chapter 14
...to Nate with two days left in Enterprise Thirty-two asking him to get word to Gwenette and Amos that she is well and that she is determined to outlast the tyranny....
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Chapter 16
...final “OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Ella then finds the final sentence from Amos’s last letter to her and Gwenette: “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs?” She writes the sentence repeatedly, each time...
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Chapter 17
Lyttle invites Ella and Tom for tea with him. Ella then writes to Gwenette, Amos, Mittie, and Tassie, explaining what has happened. She tells them that the Council members...
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