Conflict and Resolution

The conflict in this book is pretty obvious. It is a girl not having choices about her body. So she goes and files a lawsuit against her parents for the right of her own body. Her parents freak out because they know that they won’t be able to save Kate without Anna. It is resolved by Anna getting the right of her own body but gets in a tragic accident and dies so her attorney donates her organs and her sister lives after all.

Character Development

-Anna goes from always doing what her parents want her to do, to trying to find herself. You can also say she once was a hero/saver and then Anna is a “killer” because she filed the petition.

-Campbell goes from once being able to love someone to having a tragic accident and then blocking everyone out of his life. But when Anna comes in his life he finds himself opening up and letting her in. He then lets Julia back into his life.

-Jesse goes from being a rebel that his parents couldn’t control to a teenage boy that needs his parents.

-Kate and Brain mostly stayed the same through the book.

-Sarah goes from being all about Kate to realizing she needs to pay more attention to her other two kids. This was all because of Anna’s lawsuit.

Recommendations

I would recommend this book to anyone that likes books about real events and things that are not made up. It would be a good book for reading groups because you can interpret the story in different ways. What I am saying is it would be a good discussion for people on parenting and what is right. Since My Sisters Keeper is fiction I would recommend it to all fiction readers. I see it as a book that girls would like and not guys.

Best and Worst Parts of the Book

Best: The best part of the book would probably be Anna trying to find out who she really is. In her quest of finding herself she dies. This is a twist because you would expect Kate to be the one that would pass away. That is what I like about the Book.

Worst: The worst part of is is Kate wants to die. I can understand this to a point but asking your sister to file for the lawsuit is a little extreme. I know after awhile you would be sick of going through all of the surgeries and the pain but having put that kind of pressure on your sister is just weird. Having to go on with life knowing your sister is dead because of what your decisions were.

Acrhetypes

Character-
Anna: She is like a hero because she is saving her sister's life. She is also a seeker because she is going to find something that is better for her own life.
Kate: She is like Anna's sidekick in away or her friend.
Sarah: She is like the wicked stepmother, only not a stepmother. She is all about Kate and not about Jesse or Anna. She could also be seen as a caregiver.
Brian: He is a hero because he saves people since is a firefighter. He could also be seen as a traitor because he was suppose to be on Anna's side in the trial but then switched to Sarah's.
Campbell: Superhero because he is helping Anna get her freedom.
Julia: She helps others do what is right therefore, she is a caregiver.
Jesse: He is like a orphan because he is ignored by his parents and he was sent to live over the garage in the apartment.

Final Post of the Book!!

Sarah- In her closing argument she basically says that she's always loved Anna even before she met her. She admits that she jumps at every little thing that might cure Kate but she only wants to give her kids the world. Sarah said she didn't want to go to court and that she's always is second guessing herself when it comes to decisions about Kate, Anna, and Jesse. She realizes the lawsuit was never about donating a kidney, it was about being able to make your own choices.

Campbell- He says that in ten years Anna is going to be an amazing person and that he won't be surprised if Anna did give Kate the kidney after all. There was a short recess but when Judge DeSavo comes back in he says that he declares Anna medically emancipated from her parents and that Campbell will be her medical power attorney until Anna in 18 years old.

Anna- Campbell and Anna are in his car on their way to the hospital. They are talking about life and Anna tells him that in ten years she'd like to be Kate's sister.

Brian- Brian gets called out to a wreck. It was a T-bone and three were injured. On the BMW they had to jaws of life. Brian crawls over the truck a sees a dog coming out. Just then he realizes that Anna is in the car. When they get her out, she has a pulse but it is very weak. They get to the hospital and they can hear Campbell's voice trying to find out information on Anna. The only thing that is keeping Anna alive is the respirator and she is also brain dead. The doctor also asks if they want her to be a organ donor. Campbell answers for them saying that there is a girl upstairs that needs Anna's kidney.

Sarah- Her and Brain go into Anna's room after they take out all her organs. They turn off the respirator and she rubs Anna hoping that it would make it hurt less.

Kate: 2010- She said for a while after Anna died, Brian claimed that he saw Anna in the night sky and Sarah said that she knew Anna would come back to her by signs. Kate blamed herself that Anna died because if it wasn't for her, Anna wouldn't have ever filed for the lawsuit, she wouldn't have had to sign the papers, she wouldn't have had to be at the intersection at that time. The kidney transplant nearly failed and it has been eight years since her last relapse. She wonders if Anna knows that they went to Campbell and Julia's wedding and if Anna understands why they don't talk to them anymore. Also if she watched Jesse graduate from the police academy. Kate now teaches children how to dance. She puts pictures of Anna in a envelope and puts them in a drawer so in case she thinks that she is losing Anna, she can pull them out.

http://www.earnmydegree.com/online-education/criminal-justice/law-enforcement-policing-investigation.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc&key=go_police_academy_broad&v=google&a=cj-h%40worldclassstrategy.com&c=police&cat=police_academy_broad&mt=Search&ad=645496850&est=police%20academy- List of school where you can get into the police academy.

http://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=65- Tells you what a medical atourney is, when Medical Power of Attorney go into effect and how long is it effective, when the agent has the right to make health care decisions on the principal's behalf, ect.

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Sarah: Present Day- When she is cross examining her husband, she starts to think about the past and how much they had fun when Kate was in remission. But she was talking out loud and Brian agrees. When there was a break Sarah went out to the vending machines and Brian comes up and tells her that oreos were her best shot. She asks him if he thought they were good parents and he tells her that he doesn't know anymore. That same day Anna and Brian move back home. Sarah tells Anna that she reminds her or herself.

Julia- She goes running at 4:30 in the morning and her sister asks if she is OK. Julia tells Izzy that Campbell did the same thing once again. When she gets to the court house she is greeted by Campbell's dog. Judge pulls her around the corner where Campbell and Anna were fighting. She tells him that he is afraid to actually find out that he has a working heart if he lets people in his life. When he actually is about to tell Julia what Judge, the dog, is for he is interrupted by Judge DeSalvo.

Campbell- Anna won't talk to Campbell because of what he said to her out in the hall way so when Sarah is questioning another person, he writes her a note about the doctors last name and makes her laugh.She quickly writes that she still hates him. The doctor told Judge DeSalvo that parents need to be the parents because the children can't be.

Julia- When she is getting questioned by Campbell she tells him that she doesn't know what to do for Anna and that she is split up about her decision. This is when Campbell's dog starts to act up.

Campbell- When he is questioning Julia, Anna decides that she has something to say to everyone.

Anna- By now Anna is on the platform and Judge, the dog, is going crazy. Anna tells him the reason she filled for the petition was because her mom asked for the kidney. Also because someone convinced her to file it and that was Kate. This is when Campbell falls on the floor.

Brian- He realizes that Campbell is having a grand mal seizure. Judge knocks over the briefcase and grabs a bite block for Brian. When Campbell awakens he vomits on the floor and he is hooked up to a IV line. Campbell realizes that he had a accident when his seizure happened. Campbell tells Brain that he has been having them since he was 18 because of a car crash that had caused head trauma.

Campbell- Julia come into see Campbell, he tells her that he's been having seizures since two days before they graduated. He told her the reason he ignored her was because he said she deserved better then him and that he didn't want to take her freedom away from her. Julia told him that he should of let her decide for herself. Then she tells him that he won't be the one leaving her she's leaving him..in another fifty or sixty years.

Anna- Anna goes in to the men's bathroom to talk to Campbell because it is the only quiet place they can talk. Then they go back into the courtroom and Campbell resumes his questioning and Anna tells him that Kate asked her to kill her. When she told Kate she wouldn't be a donor anymore, Kate told her thank you.

Kate- They all go on a field trip to go talk to Kate because Judge DeSalvo wanted to talk to her. Kate told him she was expecting him to be there because it always comes back to her. Kate tries to apologize to Sarah and Sarah tells her don't be because it was the best time ever.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/grand-mal-seizure/DS00222- The web sight gives a definition on what a grand mal seizure is.

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/head_injury/article_em.htm- Gives a list of links of things about head traumas.

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Anna- It starts out with the first recess of the trial. Campbell asks her how she thinks it is going, and she tells him even if they win, they don't. They go back in to the court room where Campbell questions Dr. Bergen and then Sarah questions him also. Then there is another recess.

Sarah:2002- Sarah tells a story about how Kate met Taylor, he has AML. They start to go out on dates and visiting each other in the hospital. Taylor asks Kate to the hospital prom and three days later he dies. Sarah knew this but didn't tell Kate until a month afterwards.

Jesse- He stays in the hospital with Kate while everyone else is at the court house. Because he is there it throws Kate off. They talk about what they would come back in, in another life.

Brain- He goes to the school where someone started a fire and the whole north side was gutted out. He found a cigarette while look around the mess and realized who the arsonist was. He goes to Jesse's apartment where he waits for him to come home. When Jesse comes in Brian starts to yell at Jess and at first Jess did not break but then tells brain that he couldn't save her meaning Kate. Brian pulls Jesse into his arms and tells him he will not tell anyone no matter what.

Campbell- Starts out by questioning Br. Chance. He asks him things slowly and waits a while for another one. Dr. Chance says that he doesn't recall Anna's surgeries or anything being anything serious. When Campbell and Anna are eating lunch, Julia walks in. Anna tells Campbell that she has to go to the bathroom so that Julia and Campbell can be alone. Then when Campbell takes Anna back to the fire station, Anna realizes that he was invisible too when he was a kid. The next day, Campbell examines Brian who is suppose to be his key for the case. But when Brian is asked if Anna should still be a donor for Kate he says yes when he is suppose to say no. Then during the break Campbell tells Anna that she has to testify but she simply tells him that she can't and won't.

http://www.marrow.org/PATIENT/Undrstnd_Disease_Treat/Lrn_about_Disease/AML/index.html- Gives information on AML, like diagnosis, symptoms, treatment, and much more.

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_2X_Cigarette_Smoking.asp- Gives information on smoking cigaretts and how it can harm you in many ways.

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Anna- It starts out with Anna, Kate, and Sarah in the hospital acting like there is nothing wrong because the trial is coming up. Anna and Sarah get into a fight so Anna leaves. Later that day she is talking to Julia telling her about boys and if Julia thought that Campbell was cute. Before Anna went to bed her mom called to tell her that she was sorry for what she said earlier at the hospital and that she wanted to say good night. After she gets off the phone with her mother she goes up onto the roof and watches the stars.

Brian- Brian goes to the hospital to see Kate but she is asleep. Brian tells Sarah that he is going to speak on Anna's behalf at the trial because he thinks Anna is right.

Sarah- She is still talking in the past. She finds out that Anna plays hockey. They realize that Anna is really good at something and that she loves it. Then one night Kate wakes up with blood coming out of her nose, rectum and the sockets of her eyes. Once at the hospital Brian slips out and when Sarah finds him he is writing a eulogy for Kate because he knows that she is going to die. On the eleventh day at the hospital Kate goes in to a coma and the doctor tells them that they need to say their good byes but then later Kate squeezes Sarah's hand. When Sarah goes home to see Anna and Jesse, Anna tells her that she has been accepted to this hockey camp, Sarah tells her that she can't go because they might need her to donate more stuff for Kate while she is gone.

Anna- Campbell, Anna and Brian go to Campbell's office because Sarah wants to make a deal. The deal was that if Anna donated her kidney she wouldn't ask for anything else even if the transplant doesn't work but Anna tells her that she can not accept the deal.

Julia- Goes out to dinner with Campbell to talk about the case. Campbell takes her on his boat to talk because he knows this way she won't and can't leave him. Campbell tells her about the deal but some how turns it into about him and her and they start to rekindle what they use to have.

Campbell- He leaves Julia his car keys so when she wakes up she can go get ready for court. When he gets to the court house he finds out that Anna is missing so he goes to find her. He goes to the hospital and finds her there. But on their way back to the court hose he pulls over at a park to ask her what is going on and why she is going to court. When they get to the court house, Campbell cross examines Sarah and when he asks about Anna she always answers about Kate.

http://www.astronomyexpert.co.uk/StarWatchingCategory.html- tells you about black holes, studies on stars, what telescopes you should use to study stars.

http://www.2020site.org/canoe/sailboat.html- Tells you the proper way to sail a boat.