Imagine walking up and not remembering who you are. Your own family is now a group of strangers, and you feel like an intruder in your home. This is how Jenna Fox felt after she woke up from a one-year coma. “The Adoration of Jenna Fox” by Mary E. Pearson is a science fiction novel published in 2008 by Henry Holt and Company. This novel is told from the perspective of the main character, Jenna Fox, who has just awakened from a coma caused by a devastating accident. She has no idea who her family is, and can’t remember a single detail about her past life or herself. Her Mom makes her watch home tapes to hopefully regain some of her memory. As she learns to navigate the new world and find out who she really is, she makes many new friends and …show more content…
Though it’s only been a year, her life has changed drastically without her knowing. She wakes up and can’t remember anything about her past life. Her parents are strangers and she is in an unfamiliar house. She questions if her life is even real at that point, as nothing seems believable. She fights these thoughts and takes her parents’ advice to watch tapes documenting her life to hopefully regain some of her memory. Throughout the book, she works to create an identity for herself and find out about what really happened, as she suspects the family is hiding many secrets judging from their lack of communication on her issues. She is asking her Mom questions about her past life and what happened, but the lack of proper communication is leading her nowhere. One day, she decides she wants to go to school. She found out she knows a lot about literature, despite knowing nothing about it before her accident. Her Mom hesitates at first, but eventually gives in when Jenna’s Grandma, Lily, encourages her, as it may give Jenna a chance to live a normal life like she wanted. Jenna starts school and meets many new people whom she can reside with. She meets Ethan, a normal boy with a dark secret, whom she later falls in love with. She also meets Ally. Jenna grows particularly fond of Allys as they are similar to each other. Allys has many prosthetics as she is very sick, and …show more content…
One strong suit that really stands out above the rest is the character development. If you were to compare Jenna Fox from the start of the novel to the Jenna Fox at the end, you would find she is almost two different people. At the start of the novel, Jenna had just woken up from the coma, and had no idea about anything in her life. She was almost like a lost puppy. She wandered around, questioning everything as she had no clue what had happened to her. As the story progressed, she slowly made a name for herself, and started to have a personality unique to her. What I’ve noticed is in the beginning, she never wanted to ask her Mom questions, as she didn’t trust her. Not only that, but she was like a lab experiment, being watched at all times. By the end, she wouldn’t hesitate to ask her parents questions, and started to always question everything instead of base her thinking off what her parents told her was true and what’s not. By the end, she wasn’t just the Jenna her parents wanted her to be, but the Jenna Fox she actually was. In the words of Jenna Fox; “I used to be someone. Someone named Jenna Fox. That’s what they told me. But I am more than a name. More than they tell me. More than the facts and statistics they fill me with. But I’m not sure what”. This quote was very impactful, as it is a phenomenal example of how she has developed into an actual person, and found
Before Charlie Ward’s death, we can assume that Jenna was closer to her father than her mother. We can assume this because the book states, “Jenna took a swallow of her tea and tried to remember if she was even talking to her mother this week. They had had so many fights over the past years, spent so many weeks barely speaking to each other, the she found it hard to keep track.” This quote shows that Jenna and her mother rarely got along that it was hard for Jenna to even remember that last time they had a conversation. After Charlie Ward’s death, Jenna starts to realize that instead of fighting, they should be trying to face one another. As a result, Jenna and her mother start to become closer and they were able to have conversations without
Jeanne is the youngest in the family and is a naïve girl during the period of when her father is taken into custody. The rest of the family is forced to move again and again and eventually to the Manzanar Relocation Camp. While in camp, Jeanne struggles to find her real identity and struggles with the rough conditions her family faces. She finds a way to cope. Jeanne struggles to fit in as a Japanese girl and is uncertain whether she can overcome the many obstacles they face.
Even though she still continues to wear black, her hair is out of the rag and back into a braid. She makes further character progress when she reflects on how her Nanny raised her. By accepting that Nanny taught her values she doesnt not agree with, she is forming her own sense of right and wrong. It conicides with her chance to live life how she wants to. By her own will, she does not seek out a new husband, despite the large amount suitors that are coming to her.
The Adoration of Jenna Fox was written by Mary E Penson. This book is not about your typical 17 year old teenager. This science fiction novel will draw you in on a girl who is told her name Is Jenna Fox,but she doesn't remember .Waking up from a coma she is told that she was in a terrible accident that she doesn't remember. She cant even remember the 17 years leading up to the accident. Her parents show her videos,pictures,yearbooks,and as she watches these videos over and over again she slowly remembers. But each video she watches there are unanswered questions left and a mystery behind her life.
Initially, she explains, “With Ma gone, if the mud’s to be busted, the job falls to me. I think I should just let my hands rest, but I can’t, on account of Ma haunting (Page 110).” Here, even with her mother gone, she doesn’t want to let go of her moms’ way of doing things. In order to do this, she matures into the role of her mother, despite the pain she feels doing so. She’s struggling in many ways, but she’s in the process of maturing enough to attempt to handle it all.
she thinks the more she comes to realize that she had lost her identity along the way. She in
She opens the door to her childhood, beginning with when she was 3 years old and boiling her own hot dog by standing on top of the chair to reach the stovetop. While doing that, her pink dress catches on the fire because of which gets her horribly burned. She spends a few days in the hospitals and enjoys it too, because she is getting food on time and is not left starving. One day her dad shows up and they run off out of the hospital without paying the bills of her treatment. That night her family leaves the town and move to another place, taking as much stuff as possible with them. Most of her childhood memories involve her whole family- mom, dad, Jeanette, Lori, Brian, and later on Maureen -moving from one desert towns to another, settling in as long as her dad can hold the job. This happened more frequently due to the dad’s alcoholism coupled with his paranoia about the organized society and the state. One of the towns they stayed in was Battle Mountain, Nevada, where they spend a few months. Jeanette and her brother Brian spent many hours exploring the desert and collecting rocks. Even their mother got a job as a teacher and
Sam was found wandering around in the woods. When they found her she didn’t remember anything, not even her own name. She had amnesia. Sam goes back to a life she doesn’t remember. Everyday she learns something new about herself and everyday she grows to have a strong dislike towards the “old” Sam.
“A Lot of parents will do anything for their kids, except let them be themselves. ”In Jenna Fox, Jenna’s parents would not let Jenna be herself or do anything that was not one’s expectations. Even though the parents know exactly what the kid would do, because of the expectations, kids should not act every parental expectation. Would you let your kids do something that is not your expectations or would you let everything one’s kid did be for them?
She moves out as a result of her husband abusive character. She tries to get accepted into the society that already has a misconception about her. That she is promiscuous. She was raped by her teacher, which is the reason of her early teen pregnancy. The society judges her as having no morals without the knowledge that her early pregnancy was as a result of the conflict that was directed toward her.
She uses her intelligence — a brain that her father thought was a waste to educate — to create a false past, learn a new set of skills, and reflect on the people and events she sees around her. In the end, she even finds the courage to stand up to her father
You might think war is fought with men and weapons, but one of the most dangerous weapons a country can use is also an unexpected one. Propaganda was one of the most dangerous weapons that was used in World War 2 by both the Nazis and the Allies. War is fought with men and weapons but, how do you get those men to join your cause. This is where propaganda comes in, but let’s start at the beginning.
As a result of letting go of her unfinished life, Susie is able to find the happiness and simplest dreams which she thought she lost when she left Earth. The past was and always will be there, but at some point it will have to be placed into perspective. Ultimately, Susie demonstrates that the past cannot dominate the future, and when this truth is realized, you will be able to move
Lastly, her family betrayed her by not listening to her side of the story after her sister told lies about her, and they betrayed her when they acted as if they did not care if she moved out of the house. In all of these actions, the family itself and certain members of the family are portrayed as uncaring, unsupportive, disrespectful, conniving, deceitful, and hateful to Sister. Through every action of the family, Sister is treated harshly, and she tries to not let this bother her. Yet, anger and bitterness build up inside of her until she cannot take it anymore. Consequently, it built up so much inside of her that it severely affected Sister so profoundly that she moved away from her home to get away from her family.
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