Ella Minnow Pea Characters

The novel Ella Minnow Pea is clearly a fictional tale, but it is necessary that we take a look at what Mark Dunn meant by the messages in his book. After some complex thought, you should be able to tell this is satire, and there are a ton of forms of satire throughout this book that we should learn from and reexamine our ways of thinking. The first thing Dunn mocks is human’s acceptance of coincidence as “everything happens for a reason”. Now, I personally believe some big things happen for a reason, but to go from an old sign falling apart to forcibly criminalizing certain letters from national lexicon is beyond insane. This is his way of saying “Don’t overthink everything, or else you’ll become a fool”. Most of us can agree that the high …show more content…
This has always been a controversial issue in the United States. From the NSA to Twitter, groups with power always seem to censor the people they have power over. In fact, the NSA has your internet records, your phone records, who you call, how often you call, how long you call, your texts, everything. In a way, this is similar to the council intercepting letters to find instances of banned letters being used. These powers are supposed to only be for counter-terrorism, but let’s be honest; would we have any way of knowing if the NSA was abusing their power? Probably not. Twitter is a social media platform for people to post short statements for their followers to see. Last year, a former Twitter developer was secretly videotaped during a conversation he was having. In that conversation, he revealed that twitter participated in an act called ‘Shadowbanning’ which is a way of silencing people without their knowledge. This is different from normal banning because shadowbanning does not notify the user, in fact, the user isn’t aware anything changed. What happens is, the user’s tweets fail to appear in followers’ feeds and are algorithmically suppressed under other users the company deems more agreeable. This developer even went on to say that the algorithm overwhelmingly targets conservatives, and Twitter does nothing to stop