The Adoration Of Jenna Fox Analysis

In the novel “The Adoration Of Jenna Fox” written by Mary E Pearson, two important ideas that are shown throughout the novel are forgiveness and identity. These ideas get developed throughout the novel and helped me understand that I need to think about what others are going through and that it’s okay to feel or be a different person than who you used to be.

An important idea in The Adoration Of Jenna Fox is forgiveness. This is shown when Jenna finds out about what her parents did to save her life, recreating her out of bio gel, Jenna was angry and upset as her parents hadn’t told her and she ended up having to find out on her own. She didn’t forgive her parents at first until her best friend Allys got very sick and was going to die, Jenna
This is shown when Jenna discovers who she is throughout the novel and how she is now a different Jenna than what she used to be, she learns to accept her new self and how she is different than other teenagers. Jenna finds it tough as she is illegal and also her parents have programmed her to excel in some subjects/areas, restricting her from being and becoming who she wants to be, not who her parents want her to be. Pearson shows this when Jenna says “Do I even have a choice? Or is that another thing programmed into me?” This makes the audience realise that Jenna is finding it challenging to accept herself and that she finds it frustrating that she can’t make her own decisions about what she likes, what she does and who she is. This idea relates to teenagers and taught me that we are all still learning who we really are, it may be a completely different person than who we used to be but that’s okay. We are all changing everyday in the smallest or biggest ways, either way it can change who we are as a person, being who we are is our decision and no one else can make that decision for us. Every day we discover a new thing about ourselves in which we didn’t know