Sparknotes: My Sister's Keeper By Anna Fitzgerald

Kate decides to have Anna make a decision that can destroy a family. When one child in a family is sick. It can lead to the other children in the family to feel neglected. Parents often tend to focus on the child that needs more attention.

Anna is a very strong, very independent, and very self-reliant young woman, and she uses these character traits to overcome her life obstacles. She has no problem standing up for what she believes in or what she believes is right. Anna is very strong because she is dealing with a lot of serious issues, such as her sister dying, at a very young age. For example in this quote “If you don’t want to be my sister anymore, that’s one thing. But I don’t think I could stand to lose you as a friend” (57), Anna and Kate appear to pondering life without each other. She does not seem too upset at the fact that her sister would be passing on, but rather upset at the fact that she would be losing a friend. This is most likely due to the fact she knows that through her sister’s death, she would finally have the right to her own body. Another quote from the novel shows that anna is both independent and self-reliant; “ If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?” (85). This quote shows that Anna is pondering what life will be like once her sister has passed. She is trying to figure out if she would finally be the independ, young woman she longs to be or if

Anna is very hard headed. She did what she thought was right, even though her parents begged her to reconsider her choice. She kept Kate’s wishes a secret until the end of the story even though Kate’s choice made their parents upset with Anna. Anna did what was in the best interest of Kate even though it meant others would look down on her. Without the truth coming forward, their parents would have never understood why Anna wanted her body

Anna also undertakes a spiritual journey over the course of the book. Her learning of the villages’ Rector, Michael Mompellion’s true thoughts near the novels end, as well as her realisations on the nature of some of the other villagers causes her to question her Christian faith and its restrictions it places on her in the society she lives in. This can be seen in her accepting view of the Muslim faith in the epilogue.

We are first introduced to Anna, a thin woman with short dark hair, in her dialogue with her father where it quickly becomes apparent that they already have a difference in opinion on love, marriage and what she should wear on a yacht. “that guy will never marry you my darling daughter” to which Anna replies “so far, I’ve been the one who doesn’t want to marry him” “it’s the same difference” her father disagrees (Antonioni. 3:45 – 3:55). Although this is a short glimpse into Anna’s character we can see that she resists these social standards and almost seems annoyed by them. Anna is seemingly the most self- aware of the characters but seems to be stuck in a position where she is unsure of how everyone else will react to her true

The puritans would disapprove the book Get Well Soon because of the disrespects towards authority. The events to lead Anna where she is in the novel is because she would run away from home. When she ran away,she would try to go to her Grandparents house. When Anna’s parents would tell her couldn’t go somewhere she would end up sneaking out the house with her friends or to meet with her friends. In the hospital there is a golden rule, the rule is that you are not allowed to have relationships with anyone in the amount of time they are in the facility. Anna can’t help herself but to

heroine from the book In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez. There were four

This is a significant passage because Anna is essentially trying to come to terms with her feelings of guilt for her mothers death. (And at the same time plays homage to her) a woman who had so many dreams and ambitions, never to be given the freedom to experience her own power and desires or experience love or worth in any way. The simple fact that her mother had suffered so much exclusion in her life that she had been driven to believe she was a dog or that she would receive more love as a canine for me is

The bruises and deep bone ache after I gave up my marrow; the shots that sparked more stem cells in me, so that there’d be extra for my sister…” (Picoult 21). She started to become tired of helping her sister stay alive. She was constantly in the hospital, she might as well have been a sick person. Children should not be born into this world only to keep their sibling alive. Anna existence was to help Kate survive.

, Anna Fitzgerald was brought into the world to be a genetic match for her older sister. Anna also realizes that she may not be able to live the life she will want to live if she is subjected to giving away her kidney to her sister Kate. Therefore, Anna tells her parents that she does not want any of this, and proceeds to sue them for medical emancipation and the

Anna indicates that, she must accept her “misfortune “to be here and not there, to be one person and not another, certain man’s wife of another man”. The dilemma between her husband and the “the stranger’ becomes so intense that pushes her to the point of even thinking about killing herself. Further, at one point she mentions to “Gurov” that it would be better for her if either “Gurov” or her husband would just die so she can don’t have to face the situation and decision. Towards the end of the story she decides that she could never bring herself to commit suicide neither will her marital life will, so she decides to continue seeing her secret lover. This acceptance will conclude her search for identity and

The narrator, Jasmin, lived a life with an over protective mother. A mother that would go above and beyond for her children and her precious belongings, leaving the narrator wondering at that time about her actions. This caused the mother to have a complicated relationship with her daughter, due to her behavior and secretive-like actions. The narrator lived her life along with her mother’s secrets, until one day she stumbled upon an old photo of her mother in a wedding dress with another man that was not her father. She confronted her mother about the photo; her mother explained to her that she was married before she moved to U.S.A. to lead a different life. The narrator then understood her mother’s strange behavior, and it was a reflection of self-redemption and making up for her mistakes of leaving Iran without her

The character of Sara is most adamant that it is in Anna’s best interests to act as a donor for Kate. However I do not think she meant for Anna to be at the mercy of her sister. I think she was only intent on doing what had to be done to keep her family intact by preserving the life of Kate. Sara believes that the social, emotional and psychological best interests of a person depend upon the happiness in the family in which they grow up in. This gives the idea that Anna’s best interests and welfare are closely tied to those of her family, who

From the beginning of the book, Kate is seen as sort of a victimized character. A person you only see through the scope of others, and you can simply judge as the “tough as nails/keeps on smiling/fun, caring sister” leukemia patient. Though, just when the reader is thinking the twists in the novel couldn’t get any more trite or predictable (another arguable point(I swear this is the last one)), cancer-stricken Kate throws said reader a curveball. Towards the end of the story, Anna reveals to the reader, that in a conversation she and Kate had, Kate admitted that she had no desire to live and had attempted suicide. This revelation, of course, changes the way the reader sees Kate, and realizes with more sympathy, the reasons for Anna’s seemingly selfish decision.

The useable organs in her body are donated to Kate so she can live. In the movie Kate says to Anna that is okay if she doesn't want to donate her kidney because Kate didn't want to live anymore, she wanted to die. Anna sued her parents for the right to her own body, for Kate and for herself. She eventually won the case and didn't have to give Kate the kidney. Kate slowly started to get sicker and eventually died.