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Ramona Geraldine Quimby: The main character. She has straight, short brown hair and an active imagination. Her middle name is Geraldine. In Beezus and Ramona, the first chapter details that Beezus hopes to find another book to read to Ramona that doesn't have steam shovels in it at the library. Ramona ends up getting another book about steam shovels, though it is better than what they have at home, and she scribbles in it on the due date so that Beezus has to pay for the damage and they end up owning the book anyway. Ramona the Pest, like the remaining books in the series, is written from Ramona's point of view. In Ramona the Pest Ramona enters kindergarten. The succeeding books follow her as she grows up and advances through school, usually at the rate of one grade over two books. Written from the 1950s through the 1990s, dates aren't mentioned in the books, and the children are designed to appeal to real children in any time period. The last Ramona book, Ramona's World, was published in 1999, 15 years after the previous one. Eskimos Aren't Real: Played with but ultimately averted in Ramona Forever. Ramona tells her family about Howie's rich uncle, who has been traveling in what sounds like a made-up country — Saudi Arabia.
Señora Moreno delays the sheep shearing, a major event on the rancho, awaiting the arrival of a group of Native Americans from Temecula, whom she always hires for that work. The head of the Native American sheep shearers is Alessandro, son of Pablo Assís, chief of the tribe. Alessandro is portrayed as tall, wise, honest, and piously Catholic. Señora Moreno also awaits a priest, Father Salvierderra, from Santa Barbara. He will hear confessions of the workers and celebrate mass with them in her chapel after the shearing, before they return to Temecula. Everyone Has Standards: Unsaid, but some of Ramona's first-grade classmates go out of their way to be nicer to her after the teacher forces her to apologize to Susan in front of the entire class for scrunching her owl.Some reprintings of Ramona and Her Mother showcase Ramona trying to hide the famous "toothpaste cake" from her mom — it's actually Beezus who finds it. Jerkass Has a Point: In the last chapter of Ramona's World, Ramona doesn't want to invite Susan to her fourth-grade birthday party, and cites that her too-perfect snobby attitude will ruin the party. Mrs. Quimby tells her not to be rude and invites Susan anyway. Sure enough, Ramona is proven right; Susan says her mother told her to not have cake because the frosting would have Ramona's germs on it, which briefly grosses out the guests. Daisy bluntly says there's nothing wrong with the cake and everyone calls out Susan for her rudeness. In Ramona Quimby, Age 8, it is stated that Ramona and her fellow third graders are the oldest kids at her new school. However, in Ramona's World she enters fourth grade at the same school. It's also explicitly stated that Ramona's teacher, Mrs. Meachem, has been teaching fourth grade there long enough to have had some of her current students' parents in her class (ruling out the possibility that the school just added a grade over the summer).
The rest of the novel charts the two lovers' troubles. They have a daughter, and travel around Southern California trying to find a place to settle. In the aftermath of war, Alessandro's tribe is driven off their land, marking a new wave of European-American settlement in California from the United States. They endure misery and hardship, for the Americans who buy their land also demand their houses and their farm tools. Greedy Americans drive them off several homesteads, and they cannot find a permanent community that is not threatened by encroachment of American settlers. They finally move into the San Bernardino Mountains. As the Good Book Says...: Ramona the Brave opens with Beezus being humiliated by a group of boys who shout, "Jesus, Beezus!" when they overhear Ramona calling her Beezus. Ramona scolds the boys for taking the Lord's name in vain, which makes Beezus angrier at Ramona than at the boys. Ramona’s reality is growing, and it doesn’t spin as much around her family as it used to. There’s another young lady in fourth grade, Daisy Kidd, and she and Ramona are closest companions. Mrs. Quimby is staying home once more, dealing with child Roberta, and Ramona is attempting to be a decent good example for her younger sibling, while sharing her mom’s consideration. Presently in secondary school, Beezus has new companions as well, and is keen on young men. Indeed, even as child Roberta arrives, the more seasoned Quimby sisters are growing new hobbies.Originally serialized weekly in the Christian Union, [2] the novel became immensely popular. It has had more than 300 printings, [3] and has been adapted five times [4] as a film. A play adaptation has been performed annually outdoors since 1923. [4] My God, What Have I Done?: In Beezus and Ramona, Beezus feels guilty whenever she loses her temper with Ramona because she feels she ought to always love her sister, no matter what. Near the end, she confesses this to her mother and Aunt Beatrice, who assure her that Sibling Rivalry is perfectly normal. In Henry and the Clubhouse, Ramona is mentioned to be in kindergarten at the time and is shown to be friends with a classmate named Lisa. In Ramona the Pest (the Ramona-centric book about her kindergarten experiences) however, there is never any mention of a Lisa in Ramona's class. Fright-Induced Bunkmate: On more than one occasion, Beezus lets Ramona sleep in her bed when they're both scared or worried about something, like the aftermath of their parents arguing or the birth of their new baby sister.
Generation Xerox: Mrs. Quimby and her sister Beatrice were just like Beezus and Ramona when they were young girls, with Dorothy being the responsible older sister and Beatrice being the annoying younger sister. Ascended Extra: Beezus and Ramona, ascended from extras in the Henry Huggins series, and Ramona herself within her own book series starting with Ramona the Pest. Ramona in the Henry Huggins books was a Bratty Half-Pint that is used to having her way. Even Beezus called her out for that in Beezus and Ramona about the library book fiasco. Ramona and Her Mother features that she has grown up a lot at the beauty salon school where Beezus wants her hair cut; when Robert the owner asks if Ramona would like a cut as well, she politely declines at first because "we are scrimping and pinching to make ends meet", to her mother's amused exasperation. When Robert offers a discount of half-price and says there's no wait, Mrs. Quimby says Ramona's hair does need cutting, and she gets a nice pixie style with heart-shaped bangs. Ramona feels bad for Beezus on seeing how her cut turned out, saying she wishes they could both look good. It shows how much more considerate Ramona has become. Also in Ramona the Pest, one-year-old Willa Jean's hair is described as straight in contrast to her brother Howie's curly hair. But in Ramona and Her Mother, three-year-old Willa Jean's hair is said to be curly. Of course her hair might have still just been coming in when she was one. In Ramona The Brave, Mrs. Quimby comments that Ramona seems cranky this morning. Ramona insists she's not cranky, but the fierce scowl on her face tells a different story.Do Not Call Me "Paul": A reverse of this trope applies with Beezus in Ramona the Brave, when she demands to be called by her birth name of Beatrice after some boys overhear Ramona calling her Beezus and tease Beezus for it. She gets over it after a little while and lets her family say Beezus again, but from then on Ramona is only allowed to call her Beatrice in public. In Ramona's World, Ramona talks to her mom about why she doesn't like Susan, one of the reasons being that Susan gets really mad when boys call her "Snoozin' Susan." Ramona comments, "When boys call you a name, you're just supposed to get a little bit mad and not go telling the teacher."
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