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The Widow Maung is Jiang’s drug dealer. She also works as a butcher in Sinegard’s meatpacking district, and she allows Rin to carry a pig up a mountain to drink from a stream every day. She’s a brisk and no-nonsense woman, and though she humors Jiang (the pig is his idea), she also clearly finds him unhinged.
The Widow Maung Quotes in The Poppy War
The The Poppy War quotes below are all either spoken by The Widow Maung or refer to The Widow Maung. 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 6
Quotes
Oink? Sunzi looked imploringly at Rin.
“Don’t look at me,” Rin said. “It’s the end of the road for you.”
She couldn’t help but feel a stab of guilt; the longer she looked at Sunzi, the more she was reminded of its piglet form. She tore her eyes away from its dull, naive gaze and headed back up the mountain.
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The Widow Maung Quotes in The Poppy War
The The Poppy War quotes below are all either spoken by The Widow Maung or refer to The Widow Maung. 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:
).
Chapter 6
Quotes
Oink? Sunzi looked imploringly at Rin.
“Don’t look at me,” Rin said. “It’s the end of the road for you.”
She couldn’t help but feel a stab of guilt; the longer she looked at Sunzi, the more she was reminded of its piglet form. She tore her eyes away from its dull, naive gaze and headed back up the mountain.
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Related Themes:
Page Number and Citation:
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