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Bevis Pod is a convict who is sentenced to perform hard labor in London’s lower part: the Gut. But after Pod accidentally witnesses an exchange between Hester Shaw and Thaddeus Valentine, Katherine Valentine seeks Pod out, hoping he has information. Although Pod is reluctant to cause trouble at first, eventually he opens up to Katherine, and they become friends. As Pod reveals more about himself to Katherine, he proves that he isn’t as timid as he first seemed. Pod has a lot of scientific knowledge and is brave in times of crisis. Ultimately, Pod sacrifices his own life to save Katherine, proving that a person can rise above their circumstances and that a person’s low social status (like Pod’s status as a prisoner in the Gut) doesn’t have to define them.
Bevis Pod Quotes in Mortal Engines
The Mortal Engines quotes below are all either spoken by Bevis Pod or refer to Bevis Pod. 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 16
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“What does she mean, K Division?” asked Katherine.
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Chapter 31
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“So, Apprentice Melliphant, I gather you have something to tell us?”
Chapter 32
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She had come to think of Bevis Pod as a sweet, clumsy, rather useless person, someone who needed her to look after him, and she suspected that that was how the Historians all thought of him as well. But that afternoon she had begun to understand that he was really much cleverer than her.
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Chapter 35
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Hester was stumbling backwards, lifting her bound hands to ward off Father’s blow, and Katherine flung herself between them so that suddenly it was she who was in his path, and his sword slid easily through her and she felt the hilt jar hard against her ribs.
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Bevis Pod Quotes in Mortal Engines
The Mortal Engines quotes below are all either spoken by Bevis Pod or refer to Bevis Pod. 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 16
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“What does she mean, K Division?” asked Katherine.
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Chapter 31
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“So, Apprentice Melliphant, I gather you have something to tell us?”
Chapter 32
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She had come to think of Bevis Pod as a sweet, clumsy, rather useless person, someone who needed her to look after him, and she suspected that that was how the Historians all thought of him as well. But that afternoon she had begun to understand that he was really much cleverer than her.
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Chapter 35
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Hester was stumbling backwards, lifting her bound hands to ward off Father’s blow, and Katherine flung herself between them so that suddenly it was she who was in his path, and his sword slid easily through her and she felt the hilt jar hard against her ribs.
