The Adoration Of Jenna Fox Character Analysis
Jenna knows there’s a piece missing, and she knows if she watched every tape of her early life that her parents show her, that piece will still be missing. In the book, The Adoration of Jenna Fox, by Mary E. Pearson, a girl is strangely awoken from a coma feeling lost and confused. She lost her memory in an accident that killed Jenna’s two closest friends, Kara and Locke. When Jenna woke up, she was completely unaware of this but knows that something horrible happened. When curiosity motivated Jenna to ask questions about her coma, she would learn more about herself, and save the life of a dying friend. Jenna was so curious about what put her into a coma and how her parents knew exactly when she would be out of that coma, that she started
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She told her boyfriend about it soon after she found out, “I lost my hands in the accident. These are created. Like prosthetics” (Pearson 163). Word spreads to Jenna’s friend Allys, who is completely against Bio Gel, that Jenna is a reconstructed humanoid. Allys tells her parents, so they can report Jenna to the FSEB, a company that regulates science and how much, in science, is too much. After she tells her parents Allys falls ill, “They said she is beyond saving” (Pearson 245). Jenna accidentally spreading the word of her being a humanoid created from Bio Gel, ended up saving Allys’ life. The day after Jenna visited Allys when she was ill, Allys’ parents came to Mr. and Mrs. Fox asking to use Bio-Gel to save their daughter. It was not smart for Jenna to tell her boyfriend, Ethan, about her Bio-Gel secret, but it saved someone’s life in the long run. Jenna was a curious girl and that ended up being a superb trait. She was forced by her need for an answer to ask questions that she might not even want to hear the answer to. Jenna may not be completely positively effected by asking questions, but at least she wasn’t left in the dark about her past. In conclusion, Jenna Fox’s decision to ask questions about her past changed her life, helped her find out more about herself, and saved another youthful girl’s
She told her boyfriend about it soon after she found out, “I lost my hands in the accident. These are created. Like prosthetics” (Pearson 163). Word spreads to Jenna’s friend Allys, who is completely against Bio Gel, that Jenna is a reconstructed humanoid. Allys tells her parents, so they can report Jenna to the FSEB, a company that regulates science and how much, in science, is too much. After she tells her parents Allys falls ill, “They said she is beyond saving” (Pearson 245). Jenna accidentally spreading the word of her being a humanoid created from Bio Gel, ended up saving Allys’ life. The day after Jenna visited Allys when she was ill, Allys’ parents came to Mr. and Mrs. Fox asking to use Bio-Gel to save their daughter. It was not smart for Jenna to tell her boyfriend, Ethan, about her Bio-Gel secret, but it saved someone’s life in the long run. Jenna was a curious girl and that ended up being a superb trait. She was forced by her need for an answer to ask questions that she might not even want to hear the answer to. Jenna may not be completely positively effected by asking questions, but at least she wasn’t left in the dark about her past. In conclusion, Jenna Fox’s decision to ask questions about her past changed her life, helped her find out more about herself, and saved another youthful girl’s