This is the book I'm currently reading for the past 5 days. It's been kind of slow paced because in the book it's about a girl who just recovered from a coma that erased her ability to do things in life. The book contains many themes that really relate to the characters position in the story. One important theme in the book is rebirth and death. It is pretty important in the story, the main character whole conflict in the story was because of this.
I say that rebirth is an important theme in the story because of many proving factors. One reason that I say rebirth is a theme is because the main character Jenna kind of goes through this phase when she awakes from being in a comma. This is rebirth because just as being born Jenna has to re-experience life again from the beginning. She has to learn how to walk, talk etc. basically everything you would expect someone to learn. She has to figure out how to live in the world again, without the memories of her life before her comma. Jenna doesn't start to remember the life she lived before right away, it gradually comes, but still she has to re-invent her self. Rebirth is also evident with another supporting character in the story. The supporting character is "Clayton Bender" he is also kind of reborn because the "Clayton Bender" Jenna knows has taking the original Clayton Bender's name, and his whole identity. Basically he has everything to be the actual Clayton Bender. It's rebirth because Clayton Bender gets to continue on with his life as well as the art work he created. Yet it's a different person who's actually him. Clayton Bender is literally a "new person".
Death is also a theme in this book because without death in this book there would have been no rebirth in the first place. The death of Clayton Bender allowed the birth of "himself" again. The very, very, very close death of Jenna Fox re-birthed her. I now believe that death is not the end just like in real life. People do believe that death isn't the end of life. There is something else after that and from reading this book it seems to me that it might be re-living again. Jut like reincarnation. Maybe the author is trying to make us think in a more spiritual way.
In conclusion, the two themes death and rebirth are really apart of the characters life. It's really important it seems. I mean Jenna's whole life is completely changed after this.
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