The book The Adoration of Jenna Fox begins with Jenna waking from her coma. Upon awakening from her coma, Jenna has no recollection of her past 17 years. As a child, she grew up living with her mother (Clare).and her father. After the accident, her father was not home often, he was always traveling with business and medical research. They also ended up moving in with Clare’s Mom and Jenna’s grandmother (Lily). Shortly after Jenna awoke from her coma, Jenna’s mother gave here videos of herself, to help recall all the memories she had lost. Jenna began to feel that the people who said they were her parents, were not telling her the truth. Jenna felt like they were making up everything they knew about her. Jenna began watching a couple of …show more content…
Jenna eventually watched a video of herself playing soccer. She noticed in the video she had cut her chin.. After the video she thought to herself, I don't have a scar now, do scars hear like that? Jenna decided to seek answers and disobeyed her mother's rules. She began to leave home and explore for answers to her past.. She ended up meeting her neighbor Mr. Bender. Mr. Bender knew a lot about her and the past. Jenna talked to Mr. Bender for a while, and finally asked how Mr. Bender knew all about her? Mr. Bender lied, and told her he learned about her by exploring the internet. Jenna eventually left visiting with Mr. Bender and felt she had met a friend, her only friend. While Jenna was walking home, she came across a little creek and slipped into it. The fall sparked a flashback of when she was young and nearly drowned.. This was the first memory that she remembered since the accident. When Jenna got home, her mother seemed overly anxious to get her wound fixed on her knee. A day later, Jenna went with her grandmother to their Catholic Church. Jenna thought that Lily was not fond of her, but went anyway. She went primarily, because anything was better than being at …show more content…
She decides to explore more of her house, because she really hasn’t seen the whole thing. She always felt that she was a guest at her own home. She explores her parents room first. Jenna finds a closet that is locked. She knows her mother doesn’t want her going in there, but she is too curious to leave it alone. She then remembers that her mom always keeps a key under her mattress. Jenna quickly heads to the end of her mother's bed. She reaches under the mattress with her hand and feels the key. She grabs the key and quietly moves over to the closet not wanting her mother to hear. She puts the key in the door and opens it, finding an empty room with three computers sitting in it. She walks up to the computers and noticed that all three computers were labeled with names on them. She finds hers and tries to get it out of the brace that it was screwed in from. Jenna cuts her hand and then sees that blue goo was leaking from her hand. She walks up to her mother yelling at her to explain everything! Jenna’s mother explains to Jenna that the only way to save her after the accident was to use bio gel. She begs Jenna not to tell anyone about her secret. The next day Jenna works at the church with Ethan and tells Ethan the whole story about her secret. Then Ethan comes out and says that he had attacked a drug dealer, who had hooked his brother on big
She has been tricked into working for the man on the streets; Vulture. And she lacks making smart decisions which would help her get off the streets. She struggles with drugs and prostitution throughout the book. For instance, She uses drugs and is getting abused every day by Vulture. When she talked to Dylan, she told him "I was totally wasted last night. "(81). Ever since she was addicted to drugs, her relationship with Dylan gets shaky, which gives vulture the perfect opportunity to get her into prostitution. Towards the end of the book Jenna and Dylan meet up at a parking lot where someone was dropping her off, Dylan confronted Jenna and knew she was doing prostitution "Turning tricks. You're turning tricks!" - Dylan. He is furious, but Jenna doesn't seem to care all that much. It seems as if this life, has become standard for Jenna and that's why I think she will be stuck in prostitution until Vulture thinks she is no longer
Jenna has a past and memories that make up who she is regardless of the Jenna before the accident. Memories are vital because they make up an identity and every human has an identity. After waking up from a coma, Jenna doesn’t know her identity which leads her to think that she is not human. When Jenna started remembering who she once was, Jenna shaped into her old personality. Jenna shows this when she goes to Lily for help and Lily says, “Why are you telling me this and not your parents? I’m surprised she would ask. Is she testing me? We both know the answer. Because I always have” (Pearson 186). Jenna’s identity makes her who she is. She remembered the close bond she once had with Lily and regained a small part of Jenna Fox’s identity. More importantly Jenna realizes that she still has the same memories she did befor...
In his most recent album, Kanye West raps, “Now if I fuck this model/ And she just bleached her asshole/ And I get bleach on my T-shirt/ I 'mma feel like an asshole.” He suggests that it is the girl’s fault for getting bleach on his tee shirt, which she only did to make herself more sexually appealing. This misogyny in hip-hop culture is recognized to bring about problems. For instance, the women around these rappers believe they can only do well in life if they submit themselves to the men and allow themselves to be cared for in exchange for physical pleasure. In her essay, “From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hoes”, Joan Morgan argues that the same rap music that dehumanizes women can be a powerful platform for gender equality if implemented correctly.
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes and The Scarlet Letter. Both authors persuade the reader to feel pain of the stories subject. In Little Girls in Pretty Boxes the author used pathos and interviewing to share the stories of these overly dedicated youth. Joan Ryan wrote to show how these young, talented, sophisticated women can hide the harsh reality of the sport. In her biography she listed the physical problems that these young girls go through. They have eating disorders, stunted growth, weakened bones, depression, low self esteem, debilitating and fatal injuries, and many sacrifice dropping out of school. Whereas the Scarlet Letter is a fictional drama that uses persuasion and storytelling to involve the reader. Nathaniel Hawthorne discusses
The two short stories, “The Princess of Nebraska” and “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers” by Yiyun Li, depict the lives of two people under Chinese communist control, trapped by the social restraints of their society in search of individual salvation. In “Princess of Nebraska”, a young girl (Sasha) struggles to find internal purpose and satisfaction within her life, feeling that the restraints of communist control keep her from achieving the sense of self she desires. She believes the United States is the solution to gaining her individual freedom and fantasizes the recreation of her identity and life. Similarly, “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers” revolves around the same theme of social freedom vs the discovery of the individual self. Mr.Shi,
mother and her husband after her mother’s death. But Eudora Welty deliberately includes a selfish character of Fay in the family to shows the important of the memories they have. Laurel discovers the significant meaning of the memories and past to her, yet she could not survive in staying fully attached to it.
...cts of the mother and the descriptions, which are presented to us from her, are very conclusive and need to be further examined to draw out any further conclusions on how she ?really? felt. The mother-daughter relationship between the narrator and her daughter bring up many questions as to their exact connection. At times it seems strong, as when the narrator is relating her childhood and recounting the good times. Other times it is very strained. All in all the connection between the two seems to be a very real and lifelike account of an actual mother-daughter relationship.
Andrea, her roommate, is seeking treatment from addiction to heroin and self-harm. Gwen refuses to having anything to do with the treatment center and group therapy. She believes she doesn’t have a drinking problem at all and therapy is silly. While still denying she has a problem, her boyfriend Jasper slips her a bottle of pills while visiting her. Gwen and Jasper leave the campus and have a night of partying. Gwen arrives back in her room the next morning clearly intoxicated. Cornell, the director of the rehab facility, confronts Gwen and informs her that she violated the rules of the facility. Gwen is told she is being kicked out of the program and is being sent to jail. She becomes outraged and denies that she has a problem and can quit whenever she chooses. Leaving the director’s office, she goes to her bedroom and decides to take the pills that Jasper slipped her. She ends up spitting out the pills and throwing the rest of the bottle out of the window.
"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go,"-Hermann Hesse. Regrettably, in this point of view, Jenna Fox's father, Matthew Fox, was incapable of staying strong. In the novel, The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson, seventeen-year-old Jenna Fox has woken up from a coma caused by a gruesome car accident, an accident in which she was told to have caused. Later, Jenna begins to pick up and put together the puzzle pieces of her own life, including how the way she is being kept alive is illegal. Putting these puzzle pieces together allowed her to realize why she was different and the truth about the accident. Jenna's parents, Matthew and Claire Fox decided to take advantage of Matthew's expertise and replace
When experiencing regret, a person has the tendency to repeatedly replay the details of whatever caused that emotion. However, recounting past events is only the first step in the healing process, but it is not the end solution. This is abundantly evident in Olsen’s story which begins with the narrator’s rapid emotional descent into regret. This happens when, as she has probably done a thousand times before, an unnamed third party questions the mother about her eldest daughter, Emily, asking how they can “help” and “understand her” better (Olsen 607), for surely she would know. Unfortunately, the answer to this request sends the mother helplessly down memory lane into regret valley. With Olsen’s strong symbolism, the reader becomes more keenly aware of the inner “torment” she feels while reminiscing about her callow method of raising Emily. Consequently, as the mother “moves… back and forth” emotionally, ...
She locks the door behind her and waits for several seconds starring in the darkness trying to hear any movements. Kelsey walks across the room with her pistol ready, finger on the trigger. Just as she gazes out the window watching flames arise on the horizon, spot light's beam the building causing the room to shine bright. Kelsey turns around and glimpses the Nazi Leader pointing a handgun at the pimple between her eyebrows. Kelsey lowers her pistol to the ground and holds her hands to the sky. The Nazi Leader speaks in some form of German which becomes inaudible for Kelsey to understand. Then a water droplet falls from Kelsey’s face and she begins to say a prayer. She speaks aloud to cause the leader to lose his focus on what he should be doing, killing her. Conversation comes up through the question of Kelsey asking the leader why he has started this movement once again. The leader replies “I chose to eliminate the weaker humans in our society. With those people gone, our community and world can develop to the next level.” Kelsey decides to yell at the leader while tears running down her face that the leader is wrong to think like that. She believes that everyone was put on this planet for a reason to contribute to society. And that the purpose of the jews might not be prevalent right now, but they will find their spot in society soon. As soon as the argument ceases and tension in the room intensifies, the family Kelsey saved in the woods barges through the door and open fires on the Nazi Leader. Multiple bullets slice through the leader’s body like tissue paper. His body collapses to the ground with a bang and silence strikes the room. Everyone looks around and checks themselves for unnoticeable bullet wounds that might not have stricken them. After all body parts are clean of bullet scratches, they all surround one another with tears of joy knowing
Marie, who is a product of an abusive family, is influenced by her past, as she perceives the relationship between Callie and her son, Bo. Saunders writes, describing Marie’s childhood experiences, “At least she’d [Marie] never locked on of them [her children] in a closet while entertaining a literal gravedigger in the parlor” (174). Marie’s mother did not embody the traditional traits of a maternal fig...
One of her earliest memories came from when she was three years old. Jeannette had to go to the hospital because she burned herself cooking hot dogs. Her parents didn’t like hospitals, so for that reason after a few weeks they came and took her away. Jeannette and her family were constantly moving from place to place, sometimes staying no more than one night somewhere. Her father always lied to them saying that they had to keep moving because he was wanted by the FBI. Jeannette’s mother never took much interest in Jeannette or her siblings, because the mother didn’t want them and thought that they were bothersome and in the way.
influence all her life and struggles to accept her true identity. Through the story you can
Amy was a recently graduated psychologist who had just opened up a new practice. John, her friend since grade school, calls her up in the middle of the night. It was immediately apparent that he was in distress and he tells her that he needs someone to talk to. He begins to confide in her about how his life has gone downhill lately, at first losing his employment and then his house. This increase in stress has also led to marital problems because he has been taking it out on his wife and it has turned into physical fights. His wife has now left him and he has become really depressed even having thoughts of hurting himself sometimes.