As I mentioned in my first entry, I’m a ninth grader and this blog is a project for my English class. Every month our teacher gives us an assigned topic which we have to write about in one entry. This month’s topic must be about a book we are currently reading or read a couple of weeks ago. The book I decided to talk to you about is called “My Sister’s Keeper”, which is an amazing book written by Jodi Picoult. You’ve probably heard about the movie which was released a couple of months ago.The book focuses on several different stories, the main one being about the everyday life of a family who has three kids; the oldest is a boy, Jesse, and the other two are Anna and Kate. The family revolves around Kate, the second child, who suffers from a rare disease of Leukemia. Kate was diagnosed with this terrible disease when she was two years old. She needed a severe bone marrow transplant, and none of the family members were a donor match. Her parents decided to have another child, specifically designed to be a perfect donor for Kate. They called her Anna.
The book is written when Anna is 12 years old, with flashbacks of all the surgeries she had to undergo to benefit Kate. Jesse, their brother, never received much attention from his family due to Kate’s sickness, which turned him into a complete rebel. He has become yet another problem for this family due to his drinking and setting on fire various buildings. Anna, tired of being used for surgeries without her permission, decides to file a law suit against her parents for the rights of her own body while Kate gets worse by the day, needing an urgent kidney transplant which Anna doesn’t want to give her.
There also is another important character in the novel, who is Anna’s lawyer, Campbell. He is able to relate with Ana and her case, also because of his personal and family background, especially when he was a teenager. In this novel, Picoult depicts a variety of themes such as family, support, freedom, sacrifice, and hope.
The ending, which is very different from the ending of the movie, is really surprising – it displays how fate can change in the matter of a second.
I really loved reading this novel because of the intense feelings the characters transmit, which range from sadness to happiness, sorrow to resignation, and faith and hope. It really is a great story, and I hope you decide to read it! Believe me – you won’t regret it! So, I hope you liked this brief summary, and found it helpful. If you have any questions, don’t think twice - leave a comment.
This story is really cute and sad, although I never read the book, only saw the movie so it is good to know what the book is actually about. By the way, great posts :)
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