Assess The Significance Of The Conflict In My Sister's Keeper '

Readers can better understand the significance of the conflict Anna faces in Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper, when the moon is used as a symbol to represent herself, and the stars are used to represent her family. In Picoult’s story, Anna is the glue holding her dysfunctional family together. She has a time-consuming sick sister attention, a motivated who requires a lot of attention, a Mom who will never take no for an answer, a busy dad who is constantly at work and a troubled brother who is always breaking the rules. She constantly goes back and forth with the decision to donate her kidney to save her sister, but ultimately decides not to go ahead with the procedure. This decision was driven by the fact that she was always forgotten by her family since Kate consumes most of
However, she quickly realized she was wrong. She explains this new conflict to her dad by stating “And the moon wanted to come out during the day, but there was something so much brighter that seemed to fill up all those hours. The moon grew hungry, thinner and thinner, until she was just a slice of herself”(Picoult 256). The sun is Kate, as she is the center of her family’s universe. Meanwhile, Anna compares herself to the moon as no one notices her during the day and she rarely receives any attention.The remainder of the family are the stars for which Anna feels a responsibility to keep together as they all revolve around the sun. She stated “The moon did her best. She carved each of these blocks of sorrow into a man or a woman. She spent the rest of her time watching out so the other stars wouldn’t fall. She spent the rest of her time holding on to whatever scraps she had left”(Picoult 256). Anna has done her best to solve this conflict that is tearing her family apart, but it was just too late. Similarly, the moon tries to put the pieces back together from the conflict created in the