In this section of my book, the family’s bonds are tested by each person in the family is going through a tough time because of the whole situation with Anna and Kate. They are feeling guilt, anger, and betrayal. During this process the family is forced to confront their own beliefs and make difficult choices they don’t want to make.. It is just full of different emotions and the family doesn’t know how to hold it all together.

Anna’s trail has started and her mom is still trying to drop hints that she should not go through with this trial and just to help her sister. Her mom is talking to the doctor asking about the transplant like she doesn’t care as to how big of a deal this is turning into. Kate is in the room during all this so it is making Anna feel pretty guilty that she isn’t going to help her sister.

A plot twist has happened within these pages because Kate is slowly dying through all of the drama, but come to find out, Jesse (Anna’s brother), has been giving blood for kate to help her to show his support for her even though he said he didn’t want to do a transplant, he is still helping her in a different way.

My face when I found out what Jesse was doing:

This section was talking a lot about the court and how the trail is starting to go. They have been asking sara, Anna’s mom, a lot of questions about the reason she wanted to make a lawsuit of her. Like I have said before, her mom is kind of just acting like she isn’t doing much wrong. She has made comments like, it’s hard being a mom with a kid of cancer. She wants people to feel bad for her and see where she is coming from.

One theme that stands out is selflessness and sacrifice within the family. Jesse’s act of giving blood to Kate shows the length he is willing to go to support and care for his family. It highlights the unconditional love that still exists in family relationships. There is not much of that because there is a lot of conflict. What Jesse did for Kate is important and should be talked about. He was putting Kate’s needs before his own.

POV: Jesse helping Kate

Her writing style is very descriptive and describing how the emotions flow through the book go with each character. She likes to include multiple perspectives from each character that is in depth. The way she=-writes makes readers like me stay interested in the book because of all the different things going on within the book. It also lets people that are reading reflect on the conflicts that are happening or helps them relate to a specific topic.

Overall, this part was better than the last one. Things changed up a little and there was a plot twist that I didn’t see coming. I enjoyed reading this section and I can’t wait to see if something bigger happens in the next section I read.

The more I read of my book, it kind of feels like it is staying the same with the plot, but with some different situations. It just kind of feels repetitive. Anna is still dealing with the difficult decisions to sue her parents, but her lawyer, Campbell, is definitely helping her through the whole process. Her lawyer makes her feel like she actually can have feelings and have a voice. In her family she felt she never really had that, so it makes there bond special. It makes me feel good for, Anna, because she finally has someone that understands her.

The bond between Anna and Campbell=

In there process of Anna’s situation, kate her sister, is starting to get more sick. She had to go through chemo and had to do all these blood drawings. They are running out of time trying to help kate get better, so maybe they should just find someone else to donate a kidney to her instead of focusing on the fact Anna is the only one they can turn to. Which that is definitely not the case.

It is making me think, when is this whole sueing thing going to end? I don’t think her mom gets the fact that she is not going to change her mind, so she is going to keep trying until she gets what she wants. This shows how a big deal this is because it is affecting the whole family and it is breaking them apart.

They explained flashbacks of all the characters life in the past. Some of them were, Anna playing with kate as young children. Anna and her mom, sara, have a conflict. They also showed kate and her older brother facing challenges while they were growing up. The flashbacks were a big part of this section because it shows what kind of connections each of the character’s had with each other in the past . It’s more of explaining why the character act as they do now, and how all of the memory’s led up to the lawsuit.

I’m still liking my book, but like I said it is kind of getting repetitive because the whole book is really just about the lawsuit. I hope the more I read the more action will happen and some more interesting things will happen.

This section of my book is when, Anna, has to make a decision that could break or put her family back together. This lawsuit is taking a lot of control over, Anna, and there isn’t much that she can say or do that she hasn’t already done. The courtroom in the book is kind of being similar to a battle ground because there family is being stretched beyond their limits and it is turning ugly. The vision of being right and wrong about the situation is being blurred because they just want each other to hear what they have to say instead of hearing eachother out.

I feel ,Jodi Picoult, chose to put these actions of the characters in this book because it shows us readers how challenges of someone in a family that has a lot of weight on their shoulders. The author is showing the responsibility of, Anna, helping her sister and the conflict of her not wanting to be a donor can cause problems because of someone’s individual rights. It’s also a good message people could know about just by reading this book.

How I felt reading my book:

The more I read of this section the more emotions I was getting from each character and just from the plot of the story. Anna, like I have said in different posts, wants to be able to make her own decisions, but she also loves her sister so it’s hard for her to really make a decision. The mom is torn between both of her daughters because she wants both of them to be happy, but isn’t making the right choices to make them both happy. This section also gave me a lot of questions like, How much sacrifice is too much? Where is the mom going to draw the line between saving and punishing Anna?

I’ve gotten farther in my book and I’m starting to figure out what this book is trying to get across to readers. I feel this book is really just trying to have a message of struggle between doing what’s expected and finding your own path in the process. Anna is sacrificing her own desires for the sake of others and making sure people know her rights. It’s definitely a message that people can relate to and can find her writing about a message like that helpful.

The more I read the more surprises I get and the more emotional it gets. It definitely is keeping me on my toes about the whole situation with the lawsuit and how it’s going to end up with her family and how it will affect everyone. I’m enjoying my book, I’m excited to see what new things are to come within my book.

As I am reading more into my book some things are getting a little confusing. Anna is getting to be confusing because she isn’t sure what she wants. She told her lawyer that she still wanted to go through with the lawsuit, but she also told her mom that she didn’t want to go through with it anymore. Her mom is really upset with the whole situation and is basically saying she is going to kill her sister if she isn’t a organ donor.

Jesse, the older sibling, seems like she is really angry in life because her parents aren’t paying much attention to her. Kate went to the hospital because she got really sick, the mom asked if the organ donor was still a possibility, like anna never said she didn’t want to do it. Jesse asked if maybe they could use hers which was nice of her, but she would have to get tested to see if she was healthy even. She was not for sure if she actually wanted to even though she offered.

Anna has a hard time expressing how she feels to people especially her mom, since she told her mom one thing, then her lawyer another, she has to have a guardian ad litem. That is someone who looks after someone that is underage and tries to figure out what the best thing for the kid is. They suggested that Anna gets removed from the house and has no contact by getting a restraining order on her mom. Her ad suggested this because she felt her mom was trying to talk her out of suing. It wasn’t a good idea because she would have more instability in her life.

I can see that Anna and Jesse are similar by acting out in their own ways to help cope with stress they are having at home. Anna is suing and Jesse gets herself into trouble. I wish their mom could see how this situation is really taking a toll on both of them mentally. I do understand their mom wants kate to stay alive but in the process of her worrying about one kid, she is breaking her other kids.

I have been wondering why one of kate’s siblings have to be her organ donor. I know anna was planned to help her sister, but there are a lot of other people that could help her too. Besides the confusing parts I am still liking my book and want to keep reading.

As I am reading the beginning of my book, there are a lot of emotional events that are already happening. It shows how each character is feeling which is nice because it’s not just about one character. Anna is the youngest daughter which she is being expected to donate her organs to her sister, Kate, that is sick with leukemia. Anna is feeling the only reason she is in the world is to just save her sister, so she is having a hard time figuring out who she really is. Sara is the mom, which she is overlooking Anna needs because she is so focused on making sure Kate is staying alive. The dad is named, Brian, he is making sure everyone is doing ok not just focusing on one person. Jesse is the oldest sibling who feels invisible half of the time because of this family crisis. During the section I read Anna is really just trying to figure out if she really wants to donate her organs or not. Anna ends up getting a lawyer to sue her parents for medical emancipation which is what I feel a lot of the book is going to be about and this is just the beginning of the conflict.

I am feeling bad for Anna because she has a lot of pressure on her about the situation. She is really young to have to have so much on her plate. It’s also sad that her mom just expects this out of her and it’s hard for her to explain that she really doesn’t want to donate her organs for her sister. I’m sure she would be more willing to make this decision if it wasn’t expected out of her. She doesn’t know what to think about being used for her sister’s medical needs, but Anna wants to be able to make her own decisions in her own life. This book has been really interesting so far, it is better than I intended it to be and I am excited to see what is to come further in the book.

I’m going to be reading ‘My Sister’s Keeper‘ by Jodi Picoult. I decided to read this book because Mrs. Johnson told me it was a great book for this project, but also it sounds like a really in depth book with a lot of meaning behind it and also sounds really interesting. I don’t feel I will get bored with this book and I will always be interested on what I’m reading. It sounded like it was going to give me a lot of detail and that I will be able to say a lot about my book in future blog posts. What I’m most looking forward most in the future with this project is learning more about this book and seeing how it turns out to be the more I read. Also talking about how I feel instead of in a academic voice. I’m more fearful about not reading my whole section for my book when the blog post is due, so being behind instead of on track. I will be focused on reading my book when I should instead of procrastinating on it.

Each of those texts has made a big impact on the audience in many different ways. Each of the texts showed different perspectives and ideas. In de las casas wanted more rights for the native americans, Columbus shared his discoveries from his voyages, and red clouds expressed the struggles the native americans had to go through. These things may have changed how the audience seen the native american rights.

 There are cultural encounters and frontiers because of his interactions with indigenous peoples in the Americas. He saw the different ways they lived there live like when it says “And the Christian’s with their horses and swords and pikes began to carry out massacres” That showed they lived their life and things like that helped him understand the different culture.

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