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A 3 page research paper that answers questions concerning Mark Dunn's novel Ella Minnow Pea. The writer summarizes the story, which concerns a fable that focuses on the dangers of ideology and censorship, and the then discusses the role of several of the key characters. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and censorship, but this work is also a tribute to the marvels of language. The title includes the fact that this is an "progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable," which means that
the "story sheds letters (ABC ones) as it goes on and it is composed entirely of letters (Dear Friend ones)" (Salij). Ella Minnow Pea tells of an eccentric island nation
that calls itself "Nollop" after the man who invented the pangram, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." The islanders worship Nollop because he used all 26
letters of the alphabet in a single sentence with so few repetitions of letters. The Nollopians set the sentence in tiles on the statue honoring Nollop and, after a hundred
years, the "z" falls off. The High Council takes his as a sign from Nollop from beyond the grave that the islanders are not to use the letter "z"
and they excise it from the language. Anyone over the age of seven who writes or uses a word with "z" in it is penalized and after three violations, banished
from the island. More letters continue to drop from the statue and more letters are excised. Society on the island begins to fall apart and their only hope for redemption
from this madness is to come up with a sentence that surpasses the one formulated by Nollop. By Octavia 19 (the islanders have to invent words in order to
successfully communicate, families have been torn apart, the "police goons" are terrorizing the inhabitants, and many people who have not been banished have simply given up and immigrated to the
States (Dunn 125). As there are many inhabitants of the island who see the councils edicts as ludicrous, it makes sense that--at some point-- they will rebel. 2. Is
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