Ella Minnow Pea

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Spell My Name With An S: Mittie learns the hard way that the fishmonger Zenia's name is not spelled with an X like she thought. Told mainly through the letters sent between Ella and her cousin Tassie, we experience the loss of the letters first hand.

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This has been simplified (fairly cleverly, and almost adequately) for the paperback edition to: A Novel in Letters. The island is named after Nevin Nollop, the creator of the famous pangram (a sentence containing every letter of the alphabet), “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The whole family, including two nine-year-old girls, is publicly flogged while the rest of the town watches and does nothing. Ella Minnow Pea focuses on this theme when considering, "We slowly conclude that without language, without culture— the two are inextricably bound— existence is at stake".He has left this town with a yawning communicational chasm—a great lacuna which I see no one stepping forward to fill.

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Shortly they announce their decision: The fall of the tile clearly represents the great Nollop’s posthumous wishes, and since the tile in question bears the letter ‘Z’ it must follow that Nollop wants that letter extirpated from the island’s speech and writing. She, along with her daughter and Nate Warren, travels to the States to escape her daughter's death sentence.By the end of the novel, most of the island's inhabitants have either been banished or have left of their own accord. Georgeanne Towgate is a citizen of Nollop who, at first, believes strongly in following the laws set up by the council. This letter incidentally includes a 32-letter pangram, which forces the Council to recognize that Nollop is not a deity and to rescind its statutes. All were speakers of banned words—words overheard upon the lanes, in schoolyards and church pews, and on the common greens.