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A market owner in Nollopville whose wife and daughters leave him to go to the United States. He then becomes romantically involved with Mittie and he helps with Enterprise Thirty-two. Eventually, however, the Council comes to his home, confiscates his property, and exiles him to the United States. Rory instructs Mittie to look after his store, provided the Council doesn’t decide to use it as yet another church for worshipping Nollop.
Rory Cummels Quotes in Ella Minnow Pea
The Ella Minnow Pea quotes below are all either spoken by Rory Cummels or refer to Rory Cummels. 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 7 Quotes
The Council representative—his voice: even, treacly polite—gave his response again, with slight elaboration: “Mr. Cummels, it is the Council’s earnest conviction that there is no other Supreme Being but Almighty Nollop. None whatsoever. Praise Nollop. Nollop eternal.”
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Rory Cummels Character Timeline in Ella Minnow Pea
The timeline below shows where the character Rory Cummels appears in Ella Minnow Pea. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 4
A man named Rory Cummels, who owns a local market in Nollopville, writes a letter to Mittie apologizing for...
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Rory writes that his brother Clay believes that the fallen tiles represent Nollop’s way of encouraging...
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Chapter 5
Mittie responds to Tassie, saying that she recently had coffee with Rory Cummels and she was impressed by his ease with language even without the four letters....
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Tassie responds to Mittie, saying that she is very happy that Mittie is enjoying Rory’s company. She is glad that someone will look out for Mittie. Tassie then relates the...
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Chapter 6
...writes a love letter to Tassie as he watches her working on the pangram challenge. Rory also writes to Mittie, saying that he appreciates how she is taking care of him...
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Chapter 7
Mittie writes to Ella, explaining that Rory is gone: the Council came to his home saying that they had the authority to...
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Rory then cursed the Council without restraint and he was expelled within the hour. As Rory...
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