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Marie is a cadet and student journalist who joins Bob Lang on the search-and-rescue operation looking for the missing climber on the slope of the Dial. A kind but naïve young woman, Marie is excited at the thought of getting a big scoop, but she is quickly overwhelmed by the pressure of the search. Her unwillingness to either leave Bob to get help or stay with the climber as he gets help forces them to spend the night on the mountain.
The Journalist (Marie) Quotes in The Turning
The The Turning quotes below are all either spoken by The Journalist (Marie) or refer to The Journalist (Marie). 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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No, he decided. He’d say nothing. It was what he was best at now. When you’ve lost your pride there’s nothing left to say.
He lay there to wait it out. At the first break in the fog he’d take the camera up the rock and set the flash off at regular intervals. Eventually he’d guide the vollies up to where he was. It’d come out alright. They wouldn’t freeze to death. The girl, Marie, would forget her blubbering fear because she’d get her rescue piece on the front page. She’d have her victim, her ordeal, her stoic hero. It’d be a great story, a triumph, and none of it would be true.
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The Journalist (Marie) Character Timeline in The Turning
The timeline below shows where the character The Journalist (Marie) appears in The Turning. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Fog
...he asks her to repeat her name, which he was not paying attention to earlier: Marie.
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Marie is clearly nervous that they have gotten lost, but Lang reassures her, and they prepare...
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...is nearly dark, and Lang’s shouts for help go unheard. When he suggests either that Marie go back up the slope to get help, or that she wait with the climber,...
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...night, Lang suggests they lie down on each side of the climber to stay warm. Marie is distraught, both because of the situation and because she expected to be better able...
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As they try to sleep, Lang wishes he still had the brandy. He asks Marie for her camera. Soon she starts to cry, but Lang says nothing to her, feeling...
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