UTC I haven t finished the book yet but I like Jottce s point A slightly more subtle point to be made is that for Crake it doesn t matter if its the same girl But he notices that the image of the girl in the porn movie originally its not a photo tugs at Jimmy s conscience Sort of arbitrarily seemingly randomly the expression gets to Jimmy and that s why Crake uses her picture to trigger the secret communication with Maddaddam from the Extinctathon web game He is trying to lead Jimmy into using his conscience and not just be morally numbed into accepting the injustices of their world Jimmy feels sympathetic pain first for the girl that may or may not be Oryx and then for the actual woman Oryx In a sense it is misplaced chivalry but it also signals hope and possible redemption for Jimmy who has after all been raised to to not feel this kind of pain In fact there is irony in that Jimmy seems to be more traumatized by neglect in his childhood in contrast to Oryx who seems to have overcome her childhood mistreatment 03 11 8 January 2009