The Adoration Of Jenna Fox Sparknotes

The novel “The Adoration of Jenna Fox” by Mary E.Pearson is about “Jenna Fox” a seventeen-year-old girl that wakes up after being in a coma for a year. Jenna doesn’t remember anything about her accident nor her past life and struggles to make sense of who she truly is and whether the science modifications that Jenna’s father made to her body to save her make any less human than any other person around her. When Jenna cut her finger with a sharp edge of a computer, when she found out that biogel had a shelf life and when Jenna’s friends confirmed that she was illegal according to the “100 Point System” are just several events that stood out and made the audience think twice about what makes an organism ‘Human’ and what that makes Jenna. All

During the event, Jenna cuts her finger with the sharp edge of a computer but something doesn’t seem right about how her body has responded. Evidence of this is seen when Jenna describes her cut as ‘A three-inch gash runs from the fleshy part of my thumb to my wrist. I am surprised that it no longer hurts. What’s wrong with my hand?I lay it on the table and spread the gash apart with my fingers. The skin lies on a thick layer of blue. Blue gel.’.This allowed me as a reader as well as Jenna rethink everything that happened after the accident, from the trust with her parents to whether she was really human. Another example of this is when Jenna’s mother “Claire” says to Jenna ‘The heart of the brain. That you still have’ said Jenna’s mother, then Jenna said ‘And the rest. My memories?My history.’ This example shows that what makes humans “Human” is the relationships you form with people around you and your identity not your body parts. These examples are significant to this novel because it helps us understand the extremes that some parents will go to save their children and the effects it then has on the child physically and

When Ally's, Ethan and Jenna were in the car they had a conversation about the FSEB, which is a council that decide what is legal and illegal in the medical spectrum in the U.S. This lead to Jenna finding out that the number of prosthetic limbs she has and the percentage of her brain she was left with, was illegal according to the FSEB. During the event in this novel, Jenna’s friends made the idea that Jenna was illegal a reality. When Allys said ‘Brains are pretty much illegal. You have to draw the line somewhere, don’t you?’ it made me feel sorry for Jenna because hearing something like this from your friends is much more touching and it would have made Jenna feel very isolated and out of place. When Allys said ‘We don’t want a lot of half-human lab pets crawling all around the world.’ is when Jenna would feel as though she shouldn’t be alive, this example reminds me of what teenagers these days feel. Teenagers these days think they're not normal and don’t deserve to be on earth, which leads to things like suicide, this can be because of friend issues or family issues which Jenna is also going