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Ellen Bowman
Elena Morales is a Costa Rican midwife who attends to patients at clinics, including the one run by Dr. Roberta Carter. She is a practical, experienced woman who nevertheless chooses to cover up her encounter with one of Jurassic Park’s escaped animals, a procompsognathus that attacks a newborn in her care, to protect herself from criticism.
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Elena Morales Character Timeline in Jurassic Park
The timeline below shows where the character Elena Morales appears in Jurassic Park. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Prologue: The Bite of the Raptor
...her Spanish dictionary, Dr. Carter learns that “raptor” means “ravisher” or “abductor.” When local midwife Elena Morales comes in with a woman in labor, Dr. Carter tries to ask her about raptors...
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First Iteration: New York
But at almost the same moment, Costa Rican midwife Elena Morales leaves the side of a newly delivered mother to check on the newborn lying in...
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First Iteration: The Shape of the Data
Worried that she might face consequences for leaving the baby alone, Elena Morales reports its death as a case of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Meanwhile, the university lab...
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