Independent Reading: The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Blog 4)

Although science can mostly pinpoint the accuracy of a test or experiment, it does not always mean that certain information is left out. Jenna Fox is the absolute embodiment of that.

"There's still more. It speaks to me. Somewhere, winding inside, pieces are trying to come together, synapses trying to form, a complete story trying to connect within. Four hundred billion extra neural chips trying to put together what the old Jenna never could" (138).

I think that Jenna's parents give her less credit than she deserves. They know that the BioGel plays a huge role in her survival and that ten percent of her brain was all they could save. But what they don't know is that science can be surpassed without a thought of improvement, and that is what Jenna has done.

Pearson included this passage because she wanted to show that the human brain, even when it is deprived of all the information it needs, bits and pieces of past memories and personal data will return to fill in the gaps. It is like a mystery that can only be solved naturally, without technology. This creates an effect of revelation for Jenna. She may not remember every detail of her life, but her old memories and identity are surpassing what "The Butterfly" holds. She knows that even medical technology can't stop her fro remembering who she really was.

Humans cannot be limited to what others tell them. Humans won't allow it. If we feel that there is something missing from our lives, we take it as a personal duty to find out what is missing. Like Jenna, we know that there is more to us than we can ever know.

This depiction can only mean that humans will always question science and technology, and even in the future we will wonder if our capabilities can have the upper hand over the things we create. We use languages to manipulate people's minds because as long as they are assured that there is nothing more to something, they will not question the situation.

In my last blog of "Jenna Fox", I talked about trust and how it is important for us to know who will stay with us no matter what, or who will use us as a scapegoat when the time comes. These two topics easily merge because humans put their trust in technology and science on a daily basis, but at the same time, we constantly question what it will do for us in the long run.