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.