As she does, Flora learns that her mother is convinced Ulysses is ill and she wants Mr. When Flora returns home, she hides on the stairway to listen to her parents talk. Her father has arrived to take her out for their weekly visit. Ulysses not only writes on the computer, but he composes a short poem.įlora is called home. While there, William Spiver expresses doubt as to whether Ulysses actually wrote with the typewriter, suggesting that they have him write on Mrs. Flora dislikes this young man, William Spiver, immediately.įlora, Mrs. Tickham is joined by her nephew, a young man Flora’s age who insists that he is suffering from temporary blindness. Tickham that she has named the squirrel Ulysses and that she believes he wrote with her mother’s typewriter. While they argue over the situation, the doorbell rings.įlora opens the door and finds the neighbor woman, Mrs. Buckman is angry the next morning, thinking that Flora must have played with the machine. After satiating his hunger, the squirrel then types several words on the typewriter Mrs. That night, the squirrel sneaks down to the kitchen where he rummages for food. When Flora speaks to the squirrel, he seems to understand her, increasing her belief that he is a superhero. Flora takes the squirrel home, taking into the house without hiding it, but her mother misses the animal because she is absorbed in writing her latest romance novel.įlora spends the evening with the squirrel. The squirrel then picks up the heavy vacuum, demonstrating what Flora sees as superhero characteristics. ![]() Flora runs over and rescues the squirrel, performing a version of CPR that brings the animal back to life. Tickham accidentally vacuum up a squirrel. As Flora watches from her bedroom window, she sees Mrs. Flora’s parents have recently gotten divorced, making his connection to her father even more important to Flora.Īs Flora reads, she hears a noise in the neighbor’s yard. Slipper who fell into a vat of a cleaning fluid and became the superhero named Incandesto to her father. However, Flora shared the comic books about the unassuming janitor Alfred T. Flora and Ulysses is an entertaining novel of family dynamics that takes both Flora and the reader on a journey of self-discovery.įlora Belle Buckman has signed a contract with her mother in which she has agreed to stop reading so many comic books in favor of better literature. For this reason, Flora sets out to save her squirrel from her mother only to find it is the squirrel who saves them. Flora believes the squirrel is a superhero and that her mother is its arch-nemesis. Flora comes to the rescue of the squirrel, who immediately exhibits unusual abilities. While reading a comic book her mother has asked her not to read, Flora sees the neighbor accidentally vacuum up a squirrel in her backyard. Flora Belle Buckman is a self-described cynic who finds herself at odds with her mother after her parents’ divorce. ![]() Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures was written by Kate DiCamillo.
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