Summary and Overview of My Sister's Keeper

Anna Fitzgerald was genetically designed, conceived, and born to be the perfect genetic match for her sister, Kate. Kate suffers from a rare form of childhood leukemia and will die without blood and bone marrow transfusions from Anna. At 13, when her sister now needs a kidney, Anna has had enough. She hires an attorney and sues her parents for the rights to her own body. As her case works its way through the byzantine legal system, things at home fall apart for Anna and her family. Anna recalls both the loving memories of her sister as well as holidays, parties, and activities sacrificed so she could be hospitalized to donate. Their father, a firefighter and part time stargazer, is torn between the competing needs of his children. Their mother, an attorney who retired when she had children, struggles to hold the family together and keep Kate alive at all costs.

Who's your Keeper?

I know someone who has rough times at school and getting out of it is the best part of their day. I hang out with him and i make sure that he does all of his homework and studies for his tests. He is not the brightest kid i know but he has his own way of being smart. This person is very athletic and could probably go far in them but he has to pass school before this happens. I am in some of his classes and partner up with him and we do the work together. I don't give him the answers. He is a very smart kid and being his "Keeper" has really helped him out.

Characterization

25 Random Facts about Me

25 Random Facts about Me

1.   I play soccer
2.   I have four siblings
3.   I snowboard
4.   I surf
5.   I hate school
6.   My shoe size is a size 9
7.   I have blue eyes
8.   I am a middle child
9.   I do not like the school dress code
10.   I am a positive person
11.   I don’t like waking up
12.   I love to eat
13.   I hate golfing
14.   I love candy
15.   I hate working unless I have to
16.   I went to school a year early
17.   I like to smile
18.   I had braces for 2years
19.   I don’t like to read
20.   I never use my school password for anything but my laptop
21.   I broke my arm in half last year
22.   I have a dog named Lou
23.   I hate swimming but do it anyway
24.   I love to draw
25.  My middle name is Tyler

Discussion Questions 1and2

1.           I think that Publisher’s Weekly would write this about the book because that is exactly how the book is set up to be interpreted. The book leaves you hanging with cliffhangers and makes you want to read more as you finish each chapter. It has many moments where if you didn’t have to stop reading then you would just keep reading this book. Each Chapter is told by a different person and as you finish one, you want to see how the next person is going to interpret the predicament. Anna Fitzgerald was a test tube baby and is now suing for health emancipation, or the right to her own body. Many people will look at that differently and will not see eye to eye. No matter the circumstances Anna does not just want to be the experiment in the family, she wants to be a human being and make something out of the life that has been constant rushes to and from the hospital. Jodi Picoult does a great job of revealing all of the things that you want to know. She will wait for the perfect moment and then tell you and the characters in the book exactly what is going on. When Anna’s parents find out what she is doing they go ballistic and don’t stop asking her why. That was one of the least expected things to come up at the time.

 

2.         Sara is a mother of three children in My Sister’s Keeper but she only acts like she is the mother of one child. Anna is suing her parents because they are using her as an experiment to help Kate and Jesse is just an outcast. They both are trying to escape the mass chaos of the Fitzgerald house as fast as they can and the only way they can do this is to be secluded from everyone else. But Sara made them want to leave and start a life on their own that she would have no part in. Sara is only focused on Kate and when she comes to tell Anna she is sorry, she only does this so that she could help get rid of the law suit. Without Anna, Sara will likely die and be unable to live a normal life ever in her own lifetime. Anna has that ability and Sara has taken it away from her. Then Jesse is just an outcast and he is always doing drugs and stealing things. He lives in the attic of the garage which is completely secluded from the house and in his privacy he makes illegal moonshine. I don’t think anyone would be surprised if he ends up in jail by the end of the book. Sara in my terms is a horrible mother because she doesn’t even try to be one.