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Like Kara, Locke was a friend of Jenna Fox’s when Jenna lived in Boston. Locke died in the car accident that nearly killed Jenna. While Locke and Kara were dying, Jenna’s father Matthew Fox took brain scans of them in hopes of being able to rebuild their bodies and upload their scanned minds to those bodies. Though Matthew was unable to rebuild Kara and Locke, he kept their disembodied minds in hopes that their memories could prove that Jenna wasn’t criminally reckless in the accident that killed them. Kara and Locke’s minds suffer in the “void” of disembodied existence until Jenna, discovering what her father has done, destroys the uploads and “frees” her friends.
Locke Quotes in The Adoration of Jenna Fox
The The Adoration of Jenna Fox quotes below are all either spoken by Locke or refer to Locke. 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 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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Teenage Jenna is recovering at her family’s new house in California from a mysterious accident that left her with amnesia. Despite her amnesia, Jenna is sure that if she had friends, one of them would have tried to contact her during her long recovery. Yet no one has. This fact causes Jenna to ask herself: “What kind of person was Jenna Fox that she didn’t have any friends?” This quotation reveals two things about Jenna. First, she seems to think of herself as a different person than pre-accident Jenna, as indicated by her tendency to think of pre-accident Jenna in Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit ne
I don’t know if I will ever remember Jenna. The Jenna I was, at least. Father seems to think I will. Mother desperately wants me to. But letting go of something old and building something new that is all my own feels good. I want more of this feeling.
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Teenage Jenna Fox, who remembers nothing of her old life after a serious accident, has just befriended her next-door neighbor, reclusive artist Mr. Bender. This new friendship causes Jenna to reflect on her lost memories and her current identity. Though Jenna’s parents long for her to recover “the Jenna [she] was”—represented by Jenna’s lost memories—Jenna feels disconnected from her past self and tempted to “let[] go” of her “old” identity in favor of “building something new that is all [her] own.” Jenna’s temptation to let go of her past identity, which she dismissively calls “something old,” in favor of something Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum. Nisi quia ea. Quia soluta itaque. Deleniti
“And your old life? Do you miss it?”
“Parts. Mostly I regret that I never saw my parents again.”
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Jenna has just confronted her neighbor and newly minted friend Mr. Bender about what she discovered on the internet: the reclusive artist Clayton Bender is supposed to be in his 80s, but Mr. Bender is 50 at most. In response, Mr. Bender admits that he shed his original identity after getting into trouble as a teenager and assumed the first reclusive Clayton Bender’s identity after Clayton bender died of natural causes. Jenna—who has herself “lost” her original identity due to her post-accident amnesia—curiously asks Mr. Bender whether he “miss[es]” his “old life,” presumably because she is wondering whether she should Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimo
Pages 92–190 Quotes
“They aren’t perfect, but none of us are ever exactly what we want to be, right?”
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While on a class field trip, Allys and Jenna are talking about Ally’s networked prosthetics, which are working better after a new software update. Allys acknowledges that the prostheses aren’t “perfect” but comments that “none of us are ever exactly what we want to be.” Allys’s comment speaks deeply to Jenna’s situation. Prior to her accident, Jenna wasn’t what she wanted to be. She felt that she was failing to live up to her overbearing parents’ perfectionistic standards for her, a situation that left her trapped between trying and failing to be perfect and rebelling in small ways—including the small Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum. Nisi quia ea
[T]hat day almost two years ago, Kara talked me into the red skirt. She was right. It was a change I needed. What happened to that red skirt?
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Jenna is unhappily contemplating her plain, all-blue wardrobe when she suddenly flashes back to a shopping trip she took with her friend Kara, who convinced Jenna to buy a red skirt even though Jenna’s favorite color is blue. In miniature, the event symbolizes how people’s friends encourage them to try new things—and, thus, how friendships can foster growth and evolution in people’s identities. In the context of Jenna’s life particularly, Kara and the girls’ friend Locke encouraged Jenna in a small series of rebellions against her old identity as a rule-following perfectionist, an identity imposed on her by her overbearing Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corpori
Pages 191–265 Quotes
I look at my hands. Trembling. A battle between neurochip and neuron, survival and sacrifice.
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Jenna has recently discovered that her parents scanned her friends Kara and Locke’s brains prior to their deaths and are keeping Kara and Locke’s disembodied minds in a hellish suspended animation, all so that Kara and Locke’s memories can prove Jenna wasn’t responsible for the car accident that killed them in case the authorities try to prosecute her. In this scene, Jenna is trying to decide whether to protect herself by leaving her friends’ disembodied minds to suffer—or to destroy the scans and free her friends, thereby putting herself in potentially serious legal jeopardy. As a result of her emotional Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum. Nisi quia ea. Quia soluta it
Would the old Jenna have jeopardized her future for the sake of someone else?
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As Jenna puts into action her plan to destroy the uploads of her friends Kara and Locke’s brain scans, freeing their disembodied minds from indefinite torment, she wonders whether “the old Jenna” would have made this choice: namely, to “jeopardize her future” for her friends. (Kara and Locke’s brain scans prove that Jenna is not responsible for the car accident that killed them and would thus protect Jenna from criminal prosecution.) This wondering shows Jenna’s character development in two ways. First, for much of the novel, Jenna has worried that that she is less good, less perfect, and even less Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum.
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Locke Character Timeline in The Adoration of Jenna Fox
The timeline below shows where the character Locke appears in The Adoration of Jenna Fox. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Pages 3–91
Visitors. That night, Jenna remembers the faces—but nothing else—of her old friends Kara and Locke. She longs for them to reveal her identity to her.
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...hits but doesn’t know which one is herself. The previous night, she dreamed Kara and Locke were calling for her to “hurry.” She suddenly remembers cutting class with them, thrilled to...
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...why Claire was worried about the other students at Jenna’s school. Did Jenna harm Kara, Locke, or someone else? She decides to go visit her new friend Mr. Bender, via the...
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...that she didn’t have a driver’s license—but she was in a car with Kara and Locke.
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Pages 92–190
...video, Jenna is having a destination sixteenth-birthday party in Scotland. Jenna looks for Kara and Locke in the video but can’t find them. In the video’s next part, Jenna is dressed...
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...how short her life might be if she goes back to Boston, where Kara and Locke are. She wonders whether she’s the sort of creature that’s allowed to make choices and...
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...controls on her Netbook preventing her from accessing certain information. She learns that Kara and Locke both died in the car accident that almost killed her. When she asks Mr. Bender...
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...and Claire didn’t want to put pressure on her. When Jenna states that Kara and Locke are dead, Claire holds out her arms, and Jenna goes to her for comfort. Rocking...
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...lie on the bed together, almost napping. Time passes. Jenna whispers, “I’m sorry”—for Kara and Locke, but for Claire too. Claire apologizes back. Jenna asks whether she can have red drapes...
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...unknowns Jenna hasn’t shared with her parents. Jenna reveals that she’s been hearing Kara and Locke’s voices, though she read that they died in the accident. Then she insists to Lily...
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Pages 191–265
...K. Manning. Utterly shocked and horrified, Jenna slowly realizes that the computers are her own, Locke’s, and Kara’s uploaded minds, trapped in the dark void or “hell” that Jenna remembers. She...
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Eventually Jenna explodes, demanding to know why her parents would imprison another Jenna, Kara, and Locke in that environment. When her father claims that it’s not another Jenna, just information, Jenna...
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...“warm[s]” her. When Jenna demands to know why her parents have scans of Kara and Locke, Claire explains that she begged Jenna’s father to scan them in case they could save...
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Jenna asks how long her parents plan to keep Kara and Locke’s scans, and her parents explain that they want to keep Kara and Locke’s memories of...
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Tossing. Jenna, sleepless, longs to free Kara and Locke from the dark void but wonders whether they know something that could exonerate her of...
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...Alone at home, Jenna waits for the police to come. Instead, she hears Kara and Locke’s phantom voices calling for help.
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Listening. Jenna dreams that Kara and Locke are begging her to save them from the dark void. She wakes up screaming, with...
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The Accident. In a flashback, Kara and Locke are trying to persuade Jenna to take her parents’ car so that they can go...
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Self-Preservation. Jenna realizes that Kara and Locke are witnesses who could testify to her innocence if someone tries to prosecute her for...
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...be like everybody else. That means she wants the backups destroyed: her own, Kara’s, and Locke’s. Claire stiffens up, agrees to get Jenna a red skirt on the way home, glares...
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Waiting for Ethan outside, Jenna wonders whether she’ll still hear Kara and Locke’s voices after her parents move the backups. She recalls that she was “stupid” enough to...
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...escape not only the law but also the guilt of saying yes to Kara and Locke about the car keys, thereby indirectly causing their deaths. On the other hand, she thinks...
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