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Tina Bowman
Ellen Bowman is the wife of Mike Bowman and the mother of Tina Bowman. She is vacationing with her family in Costa Rica in part to explore the country’s natural beauty and in part because it has inexpensive, widely available plastic surgery options. Despite being a beautiful woman, she feels insecure about her appearance and spends time and money enhancing it. She thus demonstrates that, despite humanity’s evolution, as a species we are still plagued with flaws like vanity.
Ellen Bowman Quotes in Jurassic Park
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Mike Bowman then showed Guitierrez the picture that Tina had drawn. Guitierrez nodded. “I would accept this as a picture of a basilisk lizard,” he said. “A few details are wrong, of course. The neck is much too long, and she has drawn the hind legs with only three toes instead of five. The tail is too thick, and raised too high. But otherwise this is a perfectly serviceable lizard of the kind we are talking about.”
“But Tina specifically said the neck was long,” Ellen Bowman insisted. “And she said there were three toes on the foot.”
“Tina’s pretty observant,” Mike Bowman said.
“I’m sure she is,” Guitierrez said, smiling. “But I still think your daughter was bitten by a common basilisk amoratus,”
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Ellen Bowman Quotes in Jurassic Park
The Jurassic Park quotes below are all either spoken by Ellen Bowman or refer to Ellen Bowman. 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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First Iteration: Puntarenas
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Mike Bowman then showed Guitierrez the picture that Tina had drawn. Guitierrez nodded. “I would accept this as a picture of a basilisk lizard,” he said. “A few details are wrong, of course. The neck is much too long, and she has drawn the hind legs with only three toes instead of five. The tail is too thick, and raised too high. But otherwise this is a perfectly serviceable lizard of the kind we are talking about.”
“But Tina specifically said the neck was long,” Ellen Bowman insisted. “And she said there were three toes on the foot.”
“Tina’s pretty observant,” Mike Bowman said.
“I’m sure she is,” Guitierrez said, smiling. “But I still think your daughter was bitten by a common basilisk amoratus,”
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