Ella Minnow Pea
Do Unto Others
In the book Ella Minnow Pea, the linguistic world around them is eroding as the roots of their native language is slowly decaying as the days go by. During this time of confusion, hate, and misunderstanding the villagers must unite, for if they do not, the loved ones around them will start to fade away as well. The struggles they face between friends, family, and neighbors will challenge the close knit relationships they’ve spent a lifetime building in their small island community. The challenges will test their moral framework, as once close friends may be the very reason for their own demise. During this time of hardship, many of the villagers seek answers from the late linguistic genius himself, the great Mr. Nevin Nollop. Mr. Nollop is highly honored by the villagers for crafting the infamous pangram “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”, a sentence composed of all the letters of the alphabet with very few of the characters being used multiple times. This glimpse of peer literary genius is the reason that the people of the small island village respect and honor the vocabularian’s wisdom in these times of communication turmoil. Nevin Nollop cherished the written and spoken language of his people and before his death he expressed, “Love one another, push the parameter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor’s mail.” (Dunn, 74)This is the quotation I will seek to apply outside of the written pages of Ella Minnow Pea.
In times of distress people’s moral decisions can be influenced by deep rooted emotions and can cloud the judgments we make about others. This is why many teachings ask us to think before we act. Before responding to a situation, we need to understand what effect our actions have on the lives of others. This conscious thought process can be summarized by the Golden Rule. The Golden Rule is a moral building block that has been endorsed by many cultures and religions around
In the book Ella Minnow Pea, the linguistic world around them is eroding as the roots of their native language is slowly decaying as the days go by. During this time of confusion, hate, and misunderstanding the villagers must unite, for if they do not, the loved ones around them will start to fade away as well. The struggles they face between friends, family, and neighbors will challenge the close knit relationships they’ve spent a lifetime building in their small island community. The challenges will test their moral framework, as once close friends may be the very reason for their own demise. During this time of hardship, many of the villagers seek answers from the late linguistic genius himself, the great Mr. Nevin Nollop. Mr. Nollop is highly honored by the villagers for crafting the infamous pangram “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”, a sentence composed of all the letters of the alphabet with very few of the characters being used multiple times. This glimpse of peer literary genius is the reason that the people of the small island village respect and honor the vocabularian’s wisdom in these times of communication turmoil. Nevin Nollop cherished the written and spoken language of his people and before his death he expressed, “Love one another, push the parameter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor’s mail.” (Dunn, 74)This is the quotation I will seek to apply outside of the written pages of Ella Minnow Pea.
In times of distress people’s moral decisions can be influenced by deep rooted emotions and can cloud the judgments we make about others. This is why many teachings ask us to think before we act. Before responding to a situation, we need to understand what effect our actions have on the lives of others. This conscious thought process can be summarized by the Golden Rule. The Golden Rule is a moral building block that has been endorsed by many cultures and religions around