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A handsome, black-haired teenage boy, Ethan attends the village charter school at which Jenna Fox enrolls after moving to California. He also does community service at a nearby historical Catholic mission with Jenna as part of the school curriculum. A California native, Ethan spent a year in juvenile detention after beating and hospitalizing a drug dealer who addicted his 13-year-old brother to drugs; after his release from juvenile detention, he transferred to the tiny village charter school to avoid seeing too many people who knew him. Ethan loves literature and leads the school’s discussions of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden. As Jenna’s cyborg brain has Walden memorized, she and Ethan discuss it frequently. After Ethan comforts Jenna when she admits she has amnesia, the two grow closer and eventually kiss. Yet when Jenna realizes how much of her body is prosthetic, she begins to avoid Ethan, thinking of herself as an unlovable “monster.” Ethan tracks down Jenna and demands the truth; after she tells him the truth, he insists that he isn’t a monster for beating up the drug dealer—and she isn’t a monster for surviving her accident. Ultimately, Ethan and Jenna have a 70-year romantic relationship. Long after Ethan’s death, Jenna uses Ethan’s genetic material to have a daughter by him, Kayla.
Ethan Quotes in The Adoration of Jenna Fox
The The Adoration of Jenna Fox quotes below are all either spoken by Ethan or refer to Ethan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Pages 3–91
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What kind of person was Jenna Fox that she didn’t have any friends?
Was she someone I even want to remember?
Everyone should have at least one friend.
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“It was a private journey as much as a public one. He was searching for his personal essence as much as he was making a political statement.”
“He’s missing something. I mean, really missing something[.]”
Pages 92–190
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She has accepted the loss of her limbs but blames an out-of-control medical system for the outcome. She thinks if someone had regulated antibiotics long ago, when they first knew about the dangers of overuse, she and millions like her would have had a different fate, and now she seems determined that no new medical injustices will be unleashed on the world.
“You have to draw the line somewhere, don’t you? Medical costs are a terrible economic drain on society, not to mention the ethics involved. And by restricting how much can be replaced or enhanced, the FSEB knows you are more human than lab creation. We don’t want a lot of half-human lab pets crawling all around the world, do we?”
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I’ve heard about sociopaths, people who connect with no one but themselves and their own self-interests. That would be Dane.
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Ethan Quotes in The Adoration of Jenna Fox
The The Adoration of Jenna Fox quotes below are all either spoken by Ethan or refer to Ethan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Pages 3–91
Quotes
What kind of person was Jenna Fox that she didn’t have any friends?
Was she someone I even want to remember?
Everyone should have at least one friend.
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Explanation and Analysis:
“It was a private journey as much as a public one. He was searching for his personal essence as much as he was making a political statement.”
“He’s missing something. I mean, really missing something[.]”
Pages 92–190
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She has accepted the loss of her limbs but blames an out-of-control medical system for the outcome. She thinks if someone had regulated antibiotics long ago, when they first knew about the dangers of overuse, she and millions like her would have had a different fate, and now she seems determined that no new medical injustices will be unleashed on the world.
“You have to draw the line somewhere, don’t you? Medical costs are a terrible economic drain on society, not to mention the ethics involved. And by restricting how much can be replaced or enhanced, the FSEB knows you are more human than lab creation. We don’t want a lot of half-human lab pets crawling all around the world, do we?”
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I’ve heard about sociopaths, people who connect with no one but themselves and their own self-interests. That would be Dane.
