Ella Minnow Pea

by

Mark Dunn

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A young American scholar at the University of Georgia who publishes Nollopiana, an academic journal about the island of Nollop. He is therefore very interested in the violations against citizens’ freedom of speech that are happening on Nollop, which he hears about through the banished Nollopian Willy Creevy. Nate connects with Tassie and Mittie for a visit so that he can write an article about what is happening. He also plans to meet with Lyttle and the rest of the High Island Council to provide findings from some American chemists, which show that the tiles on Nevin Nollop’s statue are falling simply because the glue is failing—not because Nollop is sending them a sign from beyond the grave not to write or speak the letters on the tiles, as the Council assumes. However, when Lyttle argues that Nollop is actually using science to send a message, Nate changes his tactic: he understands that his only path to make an argument against the Council’s blind faith in Nollop as a deity is to prove that their faith is baseless, so he and the Nollopians plan to come up with a shorter pangram than Nollop’s famous one (this sentence is what elevates him to deity status in the eyes of the Council). Nate and the Nollopians thus form Enterprise Thirty-two, a challenge to come up with a 32-letter pangram and thus thwart the Council. Nate and Tassie also begin a romantic relationship while Nate is on the island, and he eventually rescues Tassie from the island prison when she is arrested; the two of them flee to the U.S, leaving only Ella to complete Enterprise Thirty-two.

Nate Warren Quotes in Ella Minnow Pea

The Ella Minnow Pea quotes below are all either spoken by Nate Warren or refer to Nate Warren. 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 3 Quotes

Nollop is not God. Nollop is silent. We must respect that silence and make our decisions and judgments based upon science and fact and simple old-fashioned common sense—a commodity absent for too long from those in governmental elevatia, where its employ would do us all much good.

Related Characters: Tassie Purcy (speaker), Ella Minnow Pea, High Island Council, Nevin Nollop, Nate Warren
Related Symbols: Glue
Page Number: 52
Explanation and Analysis:

7. The falling tiles can represent only one thing: a challenge—a summons to bettering our lot in the face of such deleterious complacency, and in the concomitant presence of false contentment and rank self-indulgence.

8. There is no room for alternative interpretation.

9. Interpretation of events in any other way represents heresy.

10. Heretics will be punished, as was, for example, Mr. Nollop’s saucy stenographer, who was cashiered for flippantly announcing to her employer the ease with which she could, herself, create such a sentence as his.

Related Characters: Tassie Purcy, High Island Council, Nevin Nollop, Nate Warren
Page Number: 55
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 5 Quotes

But we were lucky in that when such a misspeak took place, there were no ears pressing themselves against the portals or fenesters to overhear.

Related Characters: Tassie Purcy (speaker), Ella Minnow Pea, Nate Warren, Georgeanne Towgate
Page Number: 74
Explanation and Analysis:

You’ve given me the scientific reason for why the tiles are falling, Mr. Warren. But might not Nollop be working through the science? Have you ever thought of this? The science, in point of fact, actually serving his specific purposes. Therefore, that of which I must have positive proof—the single fact that I must know for certain is that the Great Nollop isn’t working at all!

Related Characters: Rederick Lyttle (speaker), High Island Council, Nevin Nollop, Nate Warren
Related Symbols: Glue
Page Number: 94
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 6 Quotes

The prospect of actually being able to control the outcome of this ghastly assault on our collective spirit, let alone our very humanity, by turning this offensive upon its cephalus, has sent some among our subterra movement to heights of unencompassable ecstasy.

Related Characters: Tassie Purcy (speaker), High Island Council, Nevin Nollop, Mittie Purcy, Nate Warren
Page Number: 99
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 14 Quotes

Alto I no tat Nollop isn’t trewlee going awae. Tee reason: I am not going awae. I will learn to tawg in noomerals. I will learn sign langwage—anee-ting to stae in Nollop.

[…]

Insitentallee, ewe are propaplee reating mie last letter to ewe. It is now simplee too tiring to write. To sae watt I most sae in langwage one mae onterstant.

Related Characters: Ella Minnow Pea (speaker), High Island Council, Nevin Nollop, Nate Warren
Page Number: 187-188
Explanation and Analysis:
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Nate Warren Quotes in Ella Minnow Pea

The Ella Minnow Pea quotes below are all either spoken by Nate Warren or refer to Nate Warren. 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 3 Quotes

Nollop is not God. Nollop is silent. We must respect that silence and make our decisions and judgments based upon science and fact and simple old-fashioned common sense—a commodity absent for too long from those in governmental elevatia, where its employ would do us all much good.

Related Characters: Tassie Purcy (speaker), Ella Minnow Pea, High Island Council, Nevin Nollop, Nate Warren
Related Symbols: Glue
Page Number: 52
Explanation and Analysis:

7. The falling tiles can represent only one thing: a challenge—a summons to bettering our lot in the face of such deleterious complacency, and in the concomitant presence of false contentment and rank self-indulgence.

8. There is no room for alternative interpretation.

9. Interpretation of events in any other way represents heresy.

10. Heretics will be punished, as was, for example, Mr. Nollop’s saucy stenographer, who was cashiered for flippantly announcing to her employer the ease with which she could, herself, create such a sentence as his.

Related Characters: Tassie Purcy, High Island Council, Nevin Nollop, Nate Warren
Page Number: 55
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 5 Quotes

But we were lucky in that when such a misspeak took place, there were no ears pressing themselves against the portals or fenesters to overhear.

Related Characters: Tassie Purcy (speaker), Ella Minnow Pea, Nate Warren, Georgeanne Towgate
Page Number: 74
Explanation and Analysis:

You’ve given me the scientific reason for why the tiles are falling, Mr. Warren. But might not Nollop be working through the science? Have you ever thought of this? The science, in point of fact, actually serving his specific purposes. Therefore, that of which I must have positive proof—the single fact that I must know for certain is that the Great Nollop isn’t working at all!

Related Characters: Rederick Lyttle (speaker), High Island Council, Nevin Nollop, Nate Warren
Related Symbols: Glue
Page Number: 94
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 6 Quotes

The prospect of actually being able to control the outcome of this ghastly assault on our collective spirit, let alone our very humanity, by turning this offensive upon its cephalus, has sent some among our subterra movement to heights of unencompassable ecstasy.

Related Characters: Tassie Purcy (speaker), High Island Council, Nevin Nollop, Mittie Purcy, Nate Warren
Page Number: 99
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 14 Quotes

Alto I no tat Nollop isn’t trewlee going awae. Tee reason: I am not going awae. I will learn to tawg in noomerals. I will learn sign langwage—anee-ting to stae in Nollop.

[…]

Insitentallee, ewe are propaplee reating mie last letter to ewe. It is now simplee too tiring to write. To sae watt I most sae in langwage one mae onterstant.

Related Characters: Ella Minnow Pea (speaker), High Island Council, Nevin Nollop, Nate Warren
Page Number: 187-188
Explanation and Analysis: