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The Adoration Of Jenna Fox Chapter Summary

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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

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