My Sister's Keeper And White Oleander: Character Analysis
Love and attention is sought after by all, it is human nature to want and thrive off of these attributes and the feeling of being wanted. A child is very honest; if they need love, their pain is heard until their needs are met. As a child grows older they sometimes become deprived of some of the basic fundamentals and emotional needs. As an older version of a child self those needs become suppressed when the person feels that their opinion is not being heard. When a developing child receives negative influences from the people around them it begins to affect them and their development into which they become as an adult. Negative role models in a child’s life truly does disturb the natural experience of being a child because the child is now
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In everyone’s lives, there are usually significant people that are looked up to more than others, or those who are the first ones we go to and turn to for advice or a shoulder to lean on in times of trouble. In the novel My Sister’s Keeper, Anna’s life includes some relationships that should be more significant and involved than they appear to be in the novel. For example, Anna and her father Brian don’t really have a solid foundation of a relationship because her father always has to agree with her mother and he isn’t really hands on. Sara and her thoughts usually drown Brian’s opinion out. In the novel My Sister’s Keeper, Anna’s father does not seem to know when to step up and take charge and make sure his children are being looked after: "A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive” (Picoult, 41). This reference made by Brian in an internal monologue is a revelation for the father of three. Brian in this quote is believed to be comparing how if a situation, much like the situation his family is in, is not contained, feelings will be hurt and negative consequences will most likely be the outcome. Brian seems more timid than anything towards the action of taking charge because it seems to be that he is not intending to get in the cross fires of his wife’s opinions. In contrast to Anna in My Sister’s Keeper, Astrid in White Oleander, was left by her birth mother, and if being in the foster care system wasn’t hard enough on her as a young girl, having such horrid foster parents had to be the beginning of the end of Astrid’s sanity. Astrid is
In everyone’s lives, there are usually significant people that are looked up to more than others, or those who are the first ones we go to and turn to for advice or a shoulder to lean on in times of trouble. In the novel My Sister’s Keeper, Anna’s life includes some relationships that should be more significant and involved than they appear to be in the novel. For example, Anna and her father Brian don’t really have a solid foundation of a relationship because her father always has to agree with her mother and he isn’t really hands on. Sara and her thoughts usually drown Brian’s opinion out. In the novel My Sister’s Keeper, Anna’s father does not seem to know when to step up and take charge and make sure his children are being looked after: "A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive” (Picoult, 41). This reference made by Brian in an internal monologue is a revelation for the father of three. Brian in this quote is believed to be comparing how if a situation, much like the situation his family is in, is not contained, feelings will be hurt and negative consequences will most likely be the outcome. Brian seems more timid than anything towards the action of taking charge because it seems to be that he is not intending to get in the cross fires of his wife’s opinions. In contrast to Anna in My Sister’s Keeper, Astrid in White Oleander, was left by her birth mother, and if being in the foster care system wasn’t hard enough on her as a young girl, having such horrid foster parents had to be the beginning of the end of Astrid’s sanity. Astrid is