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Briony Nevis
Meg is a backpacker who Biggie and the narrator of “Big World” pick up when they stop for gas on their way out of town. According to the narrator, Meg is physically unattractive, unintelligent, and smells bad. She’s apparently trying to get north too, and so she joins them on the road, sharing her marijuana with Biggie as the narrator drives. She and Biggie quickly develop a fling, but Meg does not attend his funeral after he dies in a mining accident the following year.
Meg Quotes in The Turning
The The Turning quotes below are all either spoken by Meg or refer to Meg. 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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Big World Quotes
Right then I can’t imagine and end to the quiet. The horizon fades. Everything looks impossibly far off. In two hours I’ll hear Biggie and Meg in his sleeping bag and she’ll cry out like a bird and become so beautiful, so desirable in the total dark that I’ll begin to cry. In a week Biggie and Meg will blow me off in Broome and I’ll be on the bus south for a second chance at the exams. In a year Biggie will be dead in a mining accident in the Pilbara and I’ll be reading Robert Louis Stevenson at his funeral while his relatives shuffle and mutter with contempt. Meg won’t show. I’ll grow up and have a family of my own and see Briony Nevis, tired and lined in a supermarket queue, and wonder what all the fuss was about. And one night I’ll turn on the TV to discover the fact that Tony Macoli, the little man with the nose that could sniff round corners, is Australia’s richest merchant banker. All of it is unimaginable.
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Meg Character Timeline in The Turning
The timeline below shows where the character Meg appears in The Turning. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Big World
...the narrator returns to the van, Biggie has been joined by a lost backpacker named Meg. Meg joins them, and the narrator can see that Biggie is falling for her. The...
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Meanwhile, Biggie and Meg are smoking a spliff (a marijuana cigarette), talking, and singing in the back of the...
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...flash forward, narrates events to come. In a few hours, he will overhear Biggie and Meg having sex in their sleeping bag together and he will cry. In a week they...
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