* DANGER! SPOILERS AHEAD*
The Adoration of Jenna Fox is a pretty good book written by Mary E. Pearson. It's main character is a girl named Jenna Fox. Jenna got into a horrible car accident and faced severe injuries. Then she fell into a coma for a year. When she wakes up, she is in a new place, doesn't remember enything, and has to start all over again. Jenna wasn't supposed to survive the accident, but she did.
To save Jenna, her parents replaced her limbs and many organs with bio-gel, a substance that her father invented. Bio-gel mimics tissues and limbs and looks like them to, at least from the outside. But to save Jenna they had to inject her with a lot of bio-gel. In fact, so much that she is illegal. The legal amount of bio-gel a person could have is 20%. Jenna is 80%. 60% over the limit. No one can find out about her.
But was it right for Jenna's parents to do what they did to save her? It is, sort of. Her parents wanted to save their only child. They loved her and wanted her to live, to be okay. They were so willing to do anything to save her that they broke the rules and laws. No one can know about Jenna, or else they will all face the consequences. But was it worth it? To them it was, and I guess that's the most important thing.
It's also not okay though. Why should Jenna get to live while other people with less severe accidents than Jenna die every day. And besides, she's an illegal creation. Her parents broke the rules. Why is that right? It's not.
What makes something right? If you think that it;s the right thing to do, then yea, I guess it could be right. At least for you it could be. It might not benefit other people but it's what you believe is the best decision. I guess that's what Jenna's parents did when they used the bio-gel on her. It might not be the right thing to do from someone else's point of view, but in their point of view, it was.
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