For instance, no one should be forced to be someone their parents are making them be. In the novel, The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Jenna finds out that her parents have programmed her to look and be a certain way. “How dare you play with my brain! How dare you pretend with me that I’m normal! How dare you program me!” (152) Also, Jenna parents programmed her to be 5’7 just so she can be a ballerina, but Jenna's heart …show more content…
Using text from the novel, It says, “ Why don’t you be a ballerina! You’re five foot seven, the perfect height.”(138) Also proclaiming, “” Parents always want their children to succeed in life. They put them in ballet, football, soccer, and more, but the children may not even be interested in those activities. These parents have pushed their daughter to do something she doesn’t want to do with her life. They want also create her bio gel body to be five foot seven so she could be the exact ballet height she needed to be. Parents should let their children pursue their dreams and not do everything because mom and dad made them do …show more content…
Jenna wants to become a normal kid again, and but her mother says no. Jenna tries to persuade her mom by saying, “‘There are two village charters within walking distance.’...‘I said school is out of the picture.’”(40) Jenna also starts to feel the weight of others depending on her. It also includes, “‘Just once I’d like to let it out’...‘I’d let too many people down’”(229) School is one thing most teens do not like going to, but some do. Parents have restrictions and do or don’t want their teens doing certain things. Teens are normally very busy, sometimes one might feel as if they are just doing things for approval form their parents. Even if one doesn’t like it, they don’t want to let their parents down. One should have the ability to choose what they want to do without the stress of their