My Sister's Keeper: 3rd quarter

SUMMARY OF KATE FITZGERALD

Kate is the older sister of Anna Fitzgerald. Kate is sixteen and has been dianoised with APL (Acute Promyelocytic Leukimia) since she was three years old. Part of the purpose of Anna's birth was to be a bone marrow donor for Kate. APL is one of the worst kinds of leukimia and one of the most fatal. When the reader first meet Kate, she is at the point where her kidneys are starting to fail and the doctors are advise her and Sara's mother that Anna should donate one of her kidneys to Kate. Kate is tired of living with leukimia and she just wants to be a normal teenager, as does Anna. But both can't get there way. There will always be a consequence with any action they make.

CHARACTERISTICS FO KATE

Depressed :"I'm just sick of waiting for something that's going to happen away. I think I've f***ed up everyones live long enough, don't you?" (388)

Sarcastic : "I've been saving Third World countires, splitting a few atoms, and finishing up the Great American Novel. In between dialysis, of course" (38)

Emotional : "Kate covers her mouth with her hand. She backs out of the kitchen door, bumping into my father who fumbles but cannot catch her as she scrambles upstairs. I heard the door to our room slam shut" (91).

Bony : " I pick her up into my arms She's nothing but bones, poking sharp through the skin of her t-shirt" (96).

My Sister's Keeper: 3rd quarter

SUMMARY OF ANNA FITZGERALD

Anna is the main character in "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult. Anna lives with her mother [Sara], father [Brian], Jessy[ older brother], and Kate [older sister]. Anna's parents genetically made Anna so she could be an exact bone marrow donor for her old sister, Kate, who has APL, a form of leukimia. With an donor with the exact same chromosome structure, there is a greater chance of Kate living and recovering from the leukimia. Anna is tired of getting all these medical procedures to help Kate, and she decided to sue her parents for medical emancipation.

CHARACTERISTICS OF ANNA

Tom-Boy : "I played hockey," Anna says. "I used to be a goal tender" (110).

Obediante : "When she [Kate] is tied to the bed, I am her eyes and her ears" (49).

Wise : "Kids think with their brains crackd wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut" (299).

Intelligent : "She's a smart kid. She can read people very well" ( 328).

Caring : "I don't want her to die, but I know she doesn't want to live like this, and I'm the one who can give her what she wants" (389).

Selfish : "In addition to the piece of me thats always wanted Kate to live, there's another, horrible piece of me, that sometimes wishes I were free" (391).