My Sister's Keeper
“the thing about flame is that it’s insidious - it sneaks, it licks, it looks over its shoulder and laughs. . . Like a sunset eating everything in its path”
My Sister’s Keeper: Literary Essay
The novel My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult has an astounding contrast between appearance and reality. Throughout the world people keep secrets from each other. What motivates them to do this? Jodi Picoult develops this contrast by examining each character’s thoughts and motivation through a point-of-view narrative. Picoult demonstrates that there is a difference between the way people appear to feel and the way they truly feel. This statement is true to all the characters in My Sister’s Keeper, because they all hide their true motives from one another in the novel. What you see in reality may not always be the truth. What appears to be motivating a person to say or do something may totally be different from the real reason a person behaves. This essay will discuss the superficial motives and the actual motives presented by Anna Fitzgerald, Alexander Campbell, and Jesse Fitzgerald.
On the surface, Anna Fitzgerald masks the true motivation behind her filing the lawsuit by claiming that she was doing this for herself. In essence so that she could get rights for her body. However, her true motives actually lay in the fact that she did not want to reveal Kate’s wish to die. Ultimately, when Anna was asked, “who convinced you?” (pg.378), she answered with regret, “Kate” (pg. 378). Although the reader knows that Kate wants to die, up until now, Anna appeared to have filed the lawsuit because she wanted to make her own decisions for her body and put her own interest in front of Kate’s. Although these desires may have played a role in the lawsuit, Anna still allowed Kate to decide that she doesn’t want her to not donate her kidney. Anna has always been the one who could keep Kate alive, but she is also the one who can give Kate what she wants in this case. Anna hid this
My Sister’s Keeper: Literary Essay
The novel My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult has an astounding contrast between appearance and reality. Throughout the world people keep secrets from each other. What motivates them to do this? Jodi Picoult develops this contrast by examining each character’s thoughts and motivation through a point-of-view narrative. Picoult demonstrates that there is a difference between the way people appear to feel and the way they truly feel. This statement is true to all the characters in My Sister’s Keeper, because they all hide their true motives from one another in the novel. What you see in reality may not always be the truth. What appears to be motivating a person to say or do something may totally be different from the real reason a person behaves. This essay will discuss the superficial motives and the actual motives presented by Anna Fitzgerald, Alexander Campbell, and Jesse Fitzgerald.
On the surface, Anna Fitzgerald masks the true motivation behind her filing the lawsuit by claiming that she was doing this for herself. In essence so that she could get rights for her body. However, her true motives actually lay in the fact that she did not want to reveal Kate’s wish to die. Ultimately, when Anna was asked, “who convinced you?” (pg.378), she answered with regret, “Kate” (pg. 378). Although the reader knows that Kate wants to die, up until now, Anna appeared to have filed the lawsuit because she wanted to make her own decisions for her body and put her own interest in front of Kate’s. Although these desires may have played a role in the lawsuit, Anna still allowed Kate to decide that she doesn’t want her to not donate her kidney. Anna has always been the one who could keep Kate alive, but she is also the one who can give Kate what she wants in this case. Anna hid this