In the book My Sisters Keeper written by Jodi Picoult, it is told by many different viewpoints from the characters of the story. Kate is one of the characters and she goes through a battle of leukemia throughout the entire book. The other characters are Anna (her sister and her bone marrow donor), Sarah (mother), Jesse ( brother), Brian (father), Campbell ( lawyer) and Julia (child activist). Every chapter is a characters point of view. A character talks about their feelings and emotions and their sides of the story throughout this whole process of Kate having cancer. I think thats the reason why the author wrote the book this way, to show readers the characters sides to the story and how they all deal with this tough situation. I also believe that she wrote this because it relates to real life and what a family goes through when somebody has cancer and how it changes everything. Everybody has their own thoughts when it comes to these situations.
From left to right; Sarah, Kate, Anna, Jesse, and Brian. While I was reading the book, the characters did kinda change my opinions of them and the situation. Sarah was very supportive of Kate and was always there for her. I felt bad that Kate was going through such a life-threatning disease but I also felt bad for the rest of the characters. From Sarah's perspective, she seemed like she was a good mother and had a nice relationship with her family but when Kate was diagnosed with leukemia, all her attention went to her. From Anna's perspective, Sarah hardly gave any attention to the rest of her family. Also Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate and had to go through so many surgeries to prepare for the transplant. This affected her social life because she never really talked about having friends nor would she have the time to be with friends. Also, this situation had affected Sarah and Brian's marriage. Anna changed my opinion on Sarah because even though she was trying to be a good mother and support Kate, she still should've had time for Anna. It seemed like Sarah only cared if Anna was the donor for Kate and didn't seem to understand how hard a transplant is to get done and what the risks are. She just figured the more medications Anna took, the easier it would've been to get through the transplant.
I agree with what you said about the different characters being seen differently from the different perspectives but I thought that Sara was a terrible mother in all of them. I don't believe there is ever any reason you should hurt your child and I was disgusted when she slapped Anna without a care. I believe Sara completely favored Kate over her two other children and possibly even resented them for being the healthy ones. I thought she didn't work with her husband on anything and marriage is about working together and deciding things together especially when your kids are concerned but she simply ignored everything he said and did things her own way until he became passive in all discussions.
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