My Sister's Keeper
Richard Hooton
English 95
30 November 2012
Final Draft: My Sister’s Keeper My Sister’s Keeper is a novel written by Jodi Picoult. It is a heart wrenching story about a family torn apart due to the oldest daughter suffering from a rare form of leukemia, and the parents fight to keep the child alive at all costs including genetically conceiving a perfect donor match for her. As the parents continue to focus strictly on Kate’s health and well- being the two other children in the home fall by the wayside. Brian, the father is the fire captain and lives part time at the fire station. On his down time there he studies astrology on the roof top, a special place that he shares with his daughter Anna and is his escape from the realities of life that for him at times are almost too much to bear. He tries everything to hold his family together and to be the strong one for his family sometimes making decisions that he isn’t sure are right but that he feels has to be done. Sarah is the mother whose life revolves around saving her daughter no matter what the cost or whoever is hurt in the process. Sarah put her life on hold the day she found out Kate had Acute Promyleocytic leukemia, APL, and her main drive in life is to keep her daughter alive. When the oncologist suggested a donor for Kate and her older brother wasn’t a match he told them about genetically matching a donor just for the main purpose of saving her. When the child Anna was born, I do not think that Sarah ever bonded with Anna it was more like she was a job completed when they saved her umbilical cord for the stem cells to transplant into Kate. After Sarah delivered Anna, she was so consumed with how careful they were with the umbilical cord that she didn’t even ask if the baby was okay. Kate the oldest daughter was diagnosed with APL at the age of two. She has gone through so much since that time, but she has always had a positive outlook on life. It is when she is sixteen she decides she has
English 95
30 November 2012
Final Draft: My Sister’s Keeper My Sister’s Keeper is a novel written by Jodi Picoult. It is a heart wrenching story about a family torn apart due to the oldest daughter suffering from a rare form of leukemia, and the parents fight to keep the child alive at all costs including genetically conceiving a perfect donor match for her. As the parents continue to focus strictly on Kate’s health and well- being the two other children in the home fall by the wayside. Brian, the father is the fire captain and lives part time at the fire station. On his down time there he studies astrology on the roof top, a special place that he shares with his daughter Anna and is his escape from the realities of life that for him at times are almost too much to bear. He tries everything to hold his family together and to be the strong one for his family sometimes making decisions that he isn’t sure are right but that he feels has to be done. Sarah is the mother whose life revolves around saving her daughter no matter what the cost or whoever is hurt in the process. Sarah put her life on hold the day she found out Kate had Acute Promyleocytic leukemia, APL, and her main drive in life is to keep her daughter alive. When the oncologist suggested a donor for Kate and her older brother wasn’t a match he told them about genetically matching a donor just for the main purpose of saving her. When the child Anna was born, I do not think that Sarah ever bonded with Anna it was more like she was a job completed when they saved her umbilical cord for the stem cells to transplant into Kate. After Sarah delivered Anna, she was so consumed with how careful they were with the umbilical cord that she didn’t even ask if the baby was okay. Kate the oldest daughter was diagnosed with APL at the age of two. She has gone through so much since that time, but she has always had a positive outlook on life. It is when she is sixteen she decides she has