Outside Reading Part Dos

In the section of The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum that I just read, the plot thickens as Bourne continues his adventure to find his wife. Bourne is now hunting for a mysterious imposter of himself. This imposter has taken on the role of the killer that Webb wanted to forget. After confronting Yao Ming, the captor of his wife, Bourne learns that his only hope of getting her back is if he finds and captures his imposter, "'Bring him to me Jason Bourne!' The banker breathed deeply, then added quietly, 'Then, and only then, will you be reunited with your wife'" (Ludlum 161). Ming wants this mysterious copy cat brought to justice so that he may continue with his rather sketchy buisness plans that the imposter has been disrupting. Unknown to Bourne however, Ming is actually an american government agent. Bourne is being secretly employed by the american government yet again to save the world from an unknown threat. Through out this conflict, not only is Bourne learning more about how to save Marie but he is also learning more about his two different identities, David Webb and Jason Bourne. He realizes that even though Webb is who he truley is and wants to be, he must become Bourne in order to save his wife Marie.
One of the characters who develops a lot in this section is Marie. Marie really grows in this section because we are able to see her struggle of living in the captivity of the government. We are able to see how smart Marie really is like when she tricks everyone into thinking she is mentaly ill, "'I've ordered a CAT scan in the morning,' Oh, you're doing exactley what I wanted you to do" ( Ludlum 172). Everyone including her captives is expecting Marie to be an innoccent, fragile girl who can't fend for herself when in reality she is very strong of character and has been planning her escape for quite some time. Marie does eventually escape and is on the run at the end of this section, something the frail girl that everyone thought she was couldn't do.