![]() Jean must decide how important freedom is to her and what she would do to ensure her freedom and the freedom of others. He really wants an easy way to damage the language areas of the brain so that the people he chooses will speak only nonsense. She is called to continue her work on the cure for this brain injury but realizes the president intends to reverse engineer this cure as a curse. As a scientist who was known for her work on a serum to cure fluent aphasia, Jean is given a rare opportunity when the president’s brother has a skiing accident. She worries about her own children’s futures as they embrace the new rules. ![]() In this America where an overzealous minister has decided he can cure the country of evil by sending women back home to cook, clean, and not speak, Jean is shocked by how willing people are to go along with the new restrictions. In the dystopian novel Vox by Christina Dalcher, Jean McClellan, a mother and neurolinguist, learns how quickly the world can change when a plan is put into place. ![]() The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Dalcher, Christina. ![]()
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