The Turning

by

Tim Winton

The Journalist (Marie) Character Analysis

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:
Trauma and Memory Theme Icon
).
Fog Quotes

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.

Related Characters: Vic Lang, Vic’s Father (Bob Lang), The Missing Climber, The Journalist (Marie)
Related Symbols: The Open Sky
Page Number: 249
Explanation and Analysis:
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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:
Trauma and Memory Theme Icon
).
Fog Quotes

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.

Related Characters: Vic Lang, Vic’s Father (Bob Lang), The Missing Climber, The Journalist (Marie)
Related Symbols: The Open Sky
Page Number: 249
Explanation and Analysis: