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George Talbot/Jen’s Dad
Jen’s mom never appears in the novel, but Jen speaks about her often. Jen is constantly exasperated by her mom, because her mom’s greatest love is shopping—she even got Jen a forged shopping pass so she can take Jen shopping, even though this is extremely dangerous for shadow children like Jen. She’s been married three times, each time to a lawyer, and her second husband is Jen’s biological dad. As Barons, they had the money to use assisted reproductive technology to conceive Jen and select her sex; Jen’s mom wanted a girl after having two boys.
Jen’s Mom Quotes in Among the Hidden
The Among the Hidden quotes below are all either spoken by Jen’s Mom or refer to Jen’s Mom. 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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Chapter 15 Quotes
“But you’re a third child, too,” Luke protested. “A shadow child. Right?”
He suddenly felt like it might be easy to cry, if he let himself. All his life, he’d been told he couldn’t do everything Matthew and Mark did because he was the third child. But if Jen could go about freely, it didn’t make sense. Had his parents lied?
“Don’t you have to hide?” he asked.
“Sure,” Jen said. “Mostly. But my parents are very good at bribery. And so am I.”
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Chapter 21 Quotes
“When I was little, Mom used to take me to a play group that was all third children,” Jen said. She giggled. “The thing was, it was all Government officials’ kids. I think some of the parents didn’t even like kids—they just thought it was a status symbol to break the Population Law and get away with it.”
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Jen’s Mom Character Timeline in Among the Hidden
The timeline below shows where the character Jen’s Mom appears in Among the Hidden. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 16
Jen then tells Luke her story. Her parents had her on purpose. Jen’s mom had two sons, Buellton and Brownley, with her first husband, so she and her second...
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Chapter 17
Jen explains that Jen’s mom made her go shopping yesterday. Seeing Luke’s incredulous look, Jen says the backseat of her...
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Chapter 20
...sends her message, Luke timidly asks about the ID Jen uses to go shopping with Jen’s mom . Jen says that’s just a shopping pass; the kids in the chat room are...
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