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Dr. Irene Shields
Watney doesn’t reveal much about his mother, except that, when he complained about shoveling snow as a kid, she told him not to be a “wuss.” When she writes a letter to him after he regains contact with NASA, he reads it over and over again. She lives in Chicago with Watney’s father.
Watney’s mother Quotes in The Martian
The The Martian quotes below are all either spoken by Watney’s mother or refer to Watney’s mother. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 13 Quotes
But my favorite email was the one from my mother. It’s exactly what you’d expect. Thank God you’re alive, stay strong, don’t die, your father says hello, etc. I read it fifty times in a row. Hey don’t get me wrong, I’m not a mama’s boy or anything […] It’s totally manly and normal for me to cling to a letter from my mom. It’s not like I’m some homesick kid at camp, right?
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Watney’s mother Character Timeline in The Martian
The timeline below shows where the character Watney’s mother appears in The Martian. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 11
...Watney repeats that the crew was not at fault in abandoning him and says, “Hi, Mom!” He updates Venkat on his potato-growing plan, explaining that he now has food through Sol...
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