Jenna Fox Summary

Summary Jenna Fox, a seventeen-year-old girl from Boston has recently been in a terrible accident. The book opens on a Jenna that is waking from a year-long coma. She has no memory of her life, family, or the accident. She wakes up in a home in California, that she lives in with her mother and grandmother, Lily. Jenna feels that Lily does not like her, and this troubles her. In an attempt to return her memory to her, her mother gives her home movies to watch. Every year of her life has been captured in film and as she begins to watch the tapes, she remembers some of her past.
Eventually Jenna thinks about school and wishes to pursue that once more. When she brings up the topic of school, however, her Mother is adamant that she cannot go to school. However, after Lily speaks to her she relents and allows Jenna to go to a small school nearby. Jenna finds that her fellow classmates all have something that brought them to this school rather than the local public school. Ethan, a boy she has seen at the Catholic mission, has been to jail and as a result could not attend the public school. Allys, a new friend …show more content…
In the novel, Jenna struggles with wondering if she is still human when her body is not made of the same materials as a true human. The dilemma breaks down to is a human the flesh and bones they are made from, or is a human more than can be explained. From the text, it is inferred that the author believes a human is more than flesh and blood, whether that is a soul or a most important 10% (pg. 117). After learning what she is Jenna wonders what happened to her soul (pg. 129). By the end of the novel, the reader is left with a sense that no matter what a person is constructed of they still remain human. At the end of the novel Jenna comments on how even though her body is not made a human material her remaining 10% controls everything else, pointing to one thought, survive (pg.