Welcome to my stop on the Fox Forever blog tour! This is an incredible series, and I highly recommend that you read it. Mary was kind enough to share her thoughts on a quote in the book, and I loved reading her insightful comments.
Page 235:
She squeezes my hand and pulls me
closer. “The world will change, Locke. Laws change . . . people change.”
Mary: Oh boy, do we ever. I
think most of literature is about change. We watch a character start out
one way, and end up another. The changes might be physical, emotional,
situational, or maybe all three. In literature and in real life, we’re always
recreating who we are.
This totally
fascinates me. Besides individuals changing, we change as a group of people
too. What we believe today as a society, will not be what we believe
fifty years from now. Even twenty years from now.
This is
what Jenna Fox is saying to Locke, in Fox Forever in
the above passage. At this point in the story she has now lived for 277
years, so she has seen a LOT of change. She knows it happens. It
just takes time. Some changes take longer than others.
She
mentioned “laws change” and it makes me think back to far less than 277 years
ago and how different things were. We weren’t even a country yet! Slavery
was legal. The very idea repulses us now. Less than a hundred years ago, women
in this country couldn’t vote! Can you believe that? And when I was
a teen, people smoked in restaurants and airplanes—even in hospitals.
Heck, they could smoke anywhere they wanted to.
But our
ideas about what is acceptable and unacceptable change. For Locke, in Fox
Forever, he is counting on that change because he is illegal based on the
medical technology that recreated him, but the change is not happening fast
enough for him.
What change isn’t happening fast
enough for you? What laws do you think will change twenty years from
now? Fifty years from now? What do you suppose will never
change?
This story
was my chance to imagine what changes the future might hold. I hope you’ll
share your ideas.
Thank you
for having me at your blog! I hope your readers enjoy Fox Forever and
the rest of the books in The Jenna Fox
Chronicles!
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Mary's thoughts are profound and wise. She is right. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com
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