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Rederick Lyttle
Ella’s father and Gwenette’s husband. Amos is a carpenter, and at the outset of the novel, he begins to sell moonshine jugs. Amos quickly gains two violations after the High Island Council begins banning the use of any letters on the tiles that fall from Nevin Nollop’s commemorative statue. Amos’s second violation occurs when he slips up during a game of poker by saying “Jack” after “J” is banned, and a friend tries to extort him for money in exchange for not reporting him, which Amos refuses. Amos tries to help in Enterprise Thirty-two, an effort to disprove the Council’s reverence for Nollop by creating a pangram shorter than Nollop’s legendary 35-letter one, but Amos is expelled from the island shortly after. In his farewell letter, he asks Ella and Gwenette, “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs?” which happens to be a 32-letter pangram. It is this sentence that Ella later finds and which forces the Council to rescind its statutes and return the island of Nollop to its former glory.
Amos Minnow Pea Quotes in Ella Minnow Pea
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Chapter 3
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And so Mum and Pop and I stood and watched the harrowing and loathsome sight of children being ritually beaten, and the commensurately disturbing picture of frightened onlookers—“the town baa-baas,” as Pop has taken to calling our dear neighbors—doing what they do oh so very well, and that is: absolutely nothing.
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Chapter 5
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A little not-so-positive news: Amos has been caught in offense number two. In last night’s poker game. It was such a foolish mistake. It might have gone without report except that Morton who owes him money chose to employ outright extortion against poor, hapless Amos. Amos’s preference was for not playing along. Imagine the effrontery: Morton attempting to ignore the offense in exchange for clearance of a rather large financial obligation. Amos thought, of course, that Morton was bluffing. Unfortunately, in this particular game, it turns out, Morton was not.
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Chapter 3
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And so Mum and Pop and I stood and watched the harrowing and loathsome sight of children being ritually beaten, and the commensurately disturbing picture of frightened onlookers—“the town baa-baas,” as Pop has taken to calling our dear neighbors—doing what they do oh so very well, and that is: absolutely nothing.
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Chapter 5
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A little not-so-positive news: Amos has been caught in offense number two. In last night’s poker game. It was such a foolish mistake. It might have gone without report except that Morton who owes him money chose to employ outright extortion against poor, hapless Amos. Amos’s preference was for not playing along. Imagine the effrontery: Morton attempting to ignore the offense in exchange for clearance of a rather large financial obligation. Amos thought, of course, that Morton was bluffing. Unfortunately, in this particular game, it turns out, Morton was not.
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