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The book being analyzed for this essay is “Ella Minnow Pea” by Mark Dunn. The characteristics of a totalitarian government are shown in the novel “Ella Minnow Pea”. In this book there is a city by the name of Nollop. “Nollop: a 63-square mile autonomous island nation 21 miles southeast of Charleston, South Carolina. Established as a quasi communal society by dispossessed southern americans in the 1840s,”- Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn.
So the first point is to establish what a totalitarian government is. Totalitarian governments are ran by a council and this council controls everything that they can in the city’s life, by any means necessary. Usually countries that have had totalitarian governments did not have a great government for that time.

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