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Chapter 15
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Ella Minnow Pea, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Totalitarianism, Complacency, and Resistance
Freedom of Speech
Betrayal vs. Solidarity
Blind Faith, Reason, and Logic
Summary
Analysis
Only five letters remain: L, M, N, O, and P. Ella writes a final letter of outcry and rebellion. She writes, “No mo Nollop pomp! No mo Nollop poo poo! No mo 4 pop/1 moll Nollop looloo poop!” and she ends with a final “OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Ella then finds the final sentence from Amos’s last letter to her and Gwenette: “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs?” She writes the sentence repeatedly, each time highlighting a different letter of the alphabet: it is a 32-letter pangram.
Ella’s final note is barely intelligible and it shows the true cost of losing one’s fundamental rights: she is unable to express herself or to be understood by others. Without freedom of speech, people become isolated and society inevitably collapses due to a lack of speech. Ella finds Amos’s accidental 32-letter pangram purely by luck, thereby completing Enterprise Thirty-two, and it is only through this that she’ll be able to save Nollop from disappearing.
Themes
