Ella Minnow Pea

by

Mark Dunn

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The editor of the Island Tribune, the island of Nollop’s only newspaper. Mr. Kleeman quickly gains two offenses after the High Island Council bans the use of the letter “Z”, and Kleeman decides to run a story in the newspaper entitled “The Bees’ Lament” in protest which contains several thousand uses of “Z.” Ella admires the act of protest but she also calls it a cowardly action because it results in the paper being shut down and it thus leaves the citizens without any kind of news source. This emphasizes the need for large-scale resistance against the Council instead of one-off symbolic acts of rebellion.

Mr. Kleeman Quotes in Ella Minnow Pea

The Ella Minnow Pea quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Kleeman or refer to Mr. Kleeman. 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:
Totalitarianism, Complacency, and Resistance Theme Icon
).
Chapter 2 Quotes

I do respect Mr. Kleeman for his protest, yet am disappointed by the cowardly exit. He has left this town with a yawning communicational chasm—a great lacuna which I see no one stepping forward to fill.

Related Characters: Ella Minnow Pea (speaker), High Island Council, Mr. Kleeman
Page Number: 30
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Mr. Kleeman Quotes in Ella Minnow Pea

The Ella Minnow Pea quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Kleeman or refer to Mr. Kleeman. 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:
Totalitarianism, Complacency, and Resistance Theme Icon
).
Chapter 2 Quotes

I do respect Mr. Kleeman for his protest, yet am disappointed by the cowardly exit. He has left this town with a yawning communicational chasm—a great lacuna which I see no one stepping forward to fill.

Related Characters: Ella Minnow Pea (speaker), High Island Council, Mr. Kleeman
Page Number: 30
Explanation and Analysis: