wow...

I have just finished the adoration of Jenna Fox, and I have a couple of reflections about it. It turns out that Jenna Fox's body is made of biogel, synthetic bones, fake skin and a few hundred million biochips. After the accident, Jenna learned that her two old best friends, Loch and Kara, died in the car accident that nearly cost her Jenna her life, as well as her entire body and 90% of her brain. Basically, Jenna is illegal. I had a feeling something was up, but my guess was that she had a clone body and her parents implanted her entire brain into the body. The reason that her parents moved her to southern California was that the biogel would stay oxygenated - and able to support life - for up to 200 years (it actually lasted for much longer.) Despite advances in medical technology, the life expectence is still similiar to what it is today. One of my thoughts on this book is about how Jenna would basically be 17 for the next two and a half centuries. Since she's technically illegal, if she tried to marry someone, they would probably figure out that something's up because after being married for a couple of years, he would probably notice that she hasn't aged the entire time. And forget about having kids! Life would probably be really annoying for her because even if she fell in love with someone and he knew about her situation, she would still watch him age into a helpless old man and not be able to share that. Once he died, she would still have another century until she met the same fate and even then, she would die because the blue goop that made up most of her body could no longer able to support life. This book really made me think about life in general, and how it would be like to have to be a teenage fugitive forever. The weird thing is, at the start of the book, Jenna was completely innocent, and basically had to pay for her (and her parents') crimes from what might as well be a past life.