The Adoration Of Jenna Fox By Mary E. Pearson

When Jenna Fox was in a car accident with her two best friends, she wasn't supposed to recover. Jenna Fox was seventeen years old at the time of the accident. She was in a coma for a year after the collision. When she awoke from the coma she remembered very little. In The Adoration of Jenna Fox, the author Mary E. Pearson teaches us that your decisions can change your life drastically when Jenna makes the judgement to go to the party eventually causing the accident and grief of her family and friends.

To begin with, after the fight with her mother Jenna was motivated to go to the party to spite her mother. "You and your mother were having an argument. She wouldn't let you go to a party. She didn't like who was giving it. The argument was going

If she had not gone to the party her friends would still be alive and she would still be herself. "She braked, but it was too late. The car spun, hit the graveled shoulder...We were tossed about, none of us bothering with seat restraints in our rush to leave the party. The car skidded, then rolled when the shoulder turned to cliff, a blurred, chopped nightmare where sound and light cut through us. I was screaming, flying. Tumbling. Glass sprayed like a thousand knives, and the world had no up or down. The fear was so complete it webbed together our screams and motion. Blinding white heat and light. Flying free and the sickening thud of my skull on soil. Or was it Kara I heard, landing next to me? And then the sudden sharp contrast of quiet sounds, like tinkling crystal. Dripping. Hissing. A drawn-out crackle. And soft moans that seemed to hover in the air above me. And finally just blackness." (Pearson 226) This shows how the accident happened and how if she had not gone to the party, she would not have been in the accident. "I used to be someone. Someone named Jenna Fox. That´s what they tell me. More than the facts and statistics they fill me with. More than the video clips they make me watch. More. But I'm not sure what." (Pearson 3) This shows how the accident affected her life and caused her not to remember who she was or anyone around her. This proves that the accident was a direct result of

Pearson uses the choice of Jenna going to the party because she was upset, that choice changed her life forever by causing the accident, and caused her friends their lives and everyone grief. Jenna Fox made the choice to go to the party because she was upset after a fight with her mother. Jenna's choice changed her life forever by causing the accident. Jenna´s decision to go to the party, not only changed her life, but the lives of the people around her. Whether it was the person losing their life or the grief of having a loved one injured. Jenna decides that she will tell her boyfriend and her friend Allys figures it out will Allys report her or stand by her