Professor Mannheim Character Analysis in Ella Minnow Pea

A university professor who lives in Nollopton. He becomes a key figure in pursuing Enterprise Thirty-Two and he is able to come up with a 37-letter pangram. However, when he and his assistant, Tom, try to break into the university one day, they are interrogated by the L.E.B. and Mannheim lets an illegal letter slip. He refuses to be evicted from the island, and when he tries to run away, the police shoot and kill him. Mannheim’s daughter Paula is then sent to live with Ella, as she has no other relatives on the island.

Professor Mannheim Quotes in Ella Minnow Pea

The Ella Minnow Pea quotes below are all either spoken by Professor Mannheim or refer to Professor Mannheim. 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

).

How it happen is not easy to tell: he yoose an illegal letter in interphew aphter poleese see him ant Tom going threw wintow into yew-niphersity hall— trespassing. He yoose the letter, then when the poleese go to tie his hants to transport him to Pier 7, he ant Tom try to phlee so teportation will not happen.
The poleese shoot him. They shoot him in the het.
He is immetiately tet.
I am, again, sorry to tell yew this. I most say, tween we two, that I helt high hopes phor his sassess.

Related Characters: Rederick Lyttle (speaker), Ella Minnow Pea, Tom, Professor Mannheim, Law Enforcement Brigade (L.E.B.)

Page Number and Citation: 169

Explanation and Analysis:

Professor Mannheim Quotes in Ella Minnow Pea

The Ella Minnow Pea quotes below are all either spoken by Professor Mannheim or refer to Professor Mannheim. 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:

).

How it happen is not easy to tell: he yoose an illegal letter in interphew aphter poleese see him ant Tom going threw wintow into yew-niphersity hall— trespassing. He yoose the letter, then when the poleese go to tie his hants to transport him to Pier 7, he ant Tom try to phlee so teportation will not happen.
The poleese shoot him. They shoot him in the het.
He is immetiately tet.
I am, again, sorry to tell yew this. I most say, tween we two, that I helt high hopes phor his sassess.

Related Characters: Rederick Lyttle (speaker), Ella Minnow Pea, Tom, Professor Mannheim, Law Enforcement Brigade (L.E.B.)

Page Number and Citation: 169

Explanation and Analysis:

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Professor Mannheim Character Analysis

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