My Sister's Keeper (pgs.223-283)

The more of this book that I read the more I dislike the mother. She is giving Anna a choice but a choice that has guilt written all over it. It's one of those questions where the mother already knows that the answer is going to be yes and Anna can't really say anything to contradict it because if her sister dies it would be Anna's fault. On page 231, Anna asked her mom if she has to go through the bone marrow transfusion her mother's response is this:"You don't have to do this if you don't want to, but I know that Kate is counting on you. And Daddy and me too." For Anna to say that she changed her mind and didn't want to do the transfusion was basically signing her sister's death slip.

Also on page 245 Jesse (the brother) expresses his feelings of getting the short end of the stick. In this part of the story Jesse is promised to go skateboarding but when Kate gets a nosebleed all hopes for this is lost. So he asks his dad when they were going, but his dad doesn't answer he just looks at Jesse as if he wasn't there. This leaves Jesse wondering if they really pay attention to him at all. This is probably one of the things that caused him to move to the attic of the garage.

As I predicted in my last post, Anna dad is going on Anna side in the lawsuit. On page 259 Anna's dad is saying to the mom that he would be speaking on Anna's behalf. I think it's good for Anna to have at least one family member on her side.

Lastly the dependence on Anna as a donor has become the one and only resort. On page 268, it reads that Anna is accepted into Hockey camp in Minneapolis. But due to Kate's cancer and need for an urgent donor at a time of need, Anna is unable to go. I understand that Anna is needed to keep Kate alive, Anna should be able to have a life as well, make friends and do extracurriculars. It seems to me that Kate's condition is preventing Anna from being a kid.