For most of the book Kate seems like a fairly simple character, considering all the complex behavior of her two siblings. It is not until the very end that you find out Kate had a secret part which she played in Anna filing the lawsuit. I admire Kate for wanting to take a stand like that, to make it her decision when she was going to go. She was tired to the temporary fixes that were, in the long run, breaking her down even more. The very fact that Kate was mature enough to come to grips with the fact that her time might have been up automatically made her far more advanced than her mother was in any given situation. Kate decided she was done and realized the risks and discomforts that were being inflicted on Anna, which made her pretty much the only person who thought of Anna throughout the whole thing.
Considering the whole book was technically about Kate, I assume this because she was on every page, you find out very little about her. It is not until the end in her point of view that you really see her and her thoughts. The thing is you really only learned about how she felt about Anna after she died, you learned nothing about really how she was as a person or her feelings on anything else. Kate's mind was pretty much a complete mystery, I find it hard to understand why she was pretty much the only main character without a point of view throughout the whole story. The only real touching an character exposing story you read about Kate is her experience with Taylor. Taylor was the other cancer patient that Kate had a connection with for a while, until he died after only being with Kate a short amount of time. It was heartbreaking and reading about Kate go through the stages of grief was eye opening for her to what it would be like when her time came.
Kate was a complex character, but unfortunately very unspoken for in the story so the reader got very little insight on her feeling with the all the events.
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