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Dictionary.com defines human being as “a person, especially as distinguished from other animals or as representing the human species. This means anyone who has a human body can be a human being. In the book The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E Pearson, Jenna Fox is a 17 year old girl who just woke up from a coma and has no clue who she is. She moved from Boston to California with her family because her family did something illegal. When Jenna was in Boston she got in a car crash with her friends Locke and Kara who died. In order to bring Jenna back to life, her father performed a procedure using biogel so that she would have 10% of her brain back but could not remember what happened. Towards the end of the story, Jenna meets Ethan who …show more content…

There is a dark place. A place where I have no eyes, no mouth, No words. I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die. But I can’t. The darkness and silence go on forever. It is not a dream. I don’t dream.(5)” The quote explains how Jenna has real human feelings. She is stuck in a thought where she has no voice and can not do anything. She is so lost and confused that she wants to die. Jenna also says how the darkness goes on forever which shows how there is no escape from this mental place she is in. If Jenna was not a human being she wouldn't be able to feel the way she does.” “I almost could. I could almost leave and never look back. Like Mr. Bender I could leave everything I was behind, including my name. Leave because of Allys and all the things she says I am. Leave because of all the things I am afraid that I will never be again. Leave, because maybe I’m not enough. Leave because Ally's, Senator Harris, and half the world knows better than father and mother and maybe Ethan, too. Leave. Because the old Jenna was so absorbed in her own needs that she said yes when she knows she should have said no, and the shame of night could be hidden in a new place behind a new name. But friends are complicated.(249)” This shows how Jenna cares what people think about her and that she has strong feelings towards leaving. Jenna takes what Allys thinks of her into consideration and that people think differently than her mother and father. She knows that the old Jenna was so focused on her own issues that nothing else mattered. These emotions that Jenna has shows that she has feelings. “There was a moment in the darkness when the fear lifted. A moment where white surrounded me. Hope. Lily, and someone else, and a sprinkling water. “Holy water Jenna.” “You can let go if you need to.” “Forgiveness, Jenna.” But I couldn’t let go. It wasn’t in my power. I was already swirling, flying, falling to

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