Finished My Sister's Keeper

So a few days ago, I finished My Sister's Keeper. I have to say, that book was touching in so many different ways. I can feel the isolation of this family from the rest of the world, because of Kate's condition. These children have very little social development. They probably lack key social skills because of the isolation. This is important because from this assumption, I can now feel how they feel when they interact with people like Campbell and Julia, or outsiders, strangers to them. The significance of the service dog seems to symbolize insecurities, where Campbell symbolizes the human race. Traditionally, the human race tries to keep its insecurities a secret, which is very similar to how Campbell kept his epilepsy a secret from the world. I also can understand how Julia feels. She feels betrayed because Campbell didn't contact her for fifteen years. I know how blind one can become when they are overcome by emotion. It is this emotion that made it impossible for her to look at Campbell as a good person, because she didn't know the truth: she assumed, and we all know what happens when you assume. I can only imagine how Anna feels, to have finally gotten what she has wanted for so long, only to have it taken away from her in the blink of an eye. I wonder what she is looking back at the Earth and saying at the end of the book. I wonder if she is happy that because of her, her sister is now successful and showing no signs of sickness. I feel that Kate is happy she gets to live, but is distraught at the cost it has taken. I think that Anna's parents had a hard time accepting Campbell and Julia as friends in the years after Anna's death, as Anna would never have died if she wasn't in Campbell's car. However, the accident is arguably the reason that Kate lived. These are some of my thoughts about the end of the book.