Chapter 1

<a data-internal-link data-link-type="Themes" href="https://www.supersummary.com/flora-and-ulysses/themes/#370134">The Power of Words</a> is a central theme of Flora and <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Character" href="https://www.supersummary.com/flora-and-ulysses/major-character-analysis/#370128">Ulysses</a>, which is evident within the first few pages. Here, Flora thinks about the fact that life is amazingly unpredictable, that people sometimes experience or say things they never expected: In this quote, she is yelling at her neighbor Tootie, warning her that she is about to vacuum a squirrel.

Chapter 7

After <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Character" href="https://www.supersummary.com/flora-and-ulysses/major-character-analysis/#370128">Ulysses</a> is sucked up by Tootie’s vacuum and saved by Flora, he finds that he is no longer an ordinary squirrel. Everything seems more meaningful, beautiful, and important than it was before. As Ulysses develops a bond with Flora, he comes to love the world for all its joys and flaws, illustrating the novel’s theme, <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Themes" href="https://www.supersummary.com/flora-and-ulysses/themes/#370135">Becoming Illuminated</a>.

Chapter 11

Alfred T. Slipper is Flora’s fictional hero. When Alfred isn’t helping people as Incandesto, he is a janitor whose only loyal companion is his bird, Dolores. Flora knows a great deal about <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Symbols & Motifs" href="https://www.supersummary.com/flora-and-ulysses/symbols-and-motifs/#370137">superheroes</a> from reading Incandesto comics, and is certain that she’s found a real-life version of Incandesto in <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Character" href="https://www.supersummary.com/flora-and-ulysses/major-character-analysis/#370128">Ulysses</a>. Incandesto is an embodiment of the novel’s theme, <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Themes" href="https://www.

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