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My Sisters Keeper Essay

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Throughout the book My Sisters Keeper there is tragedy, pain, and many hard decisions. This book challenged a family to a breaking point until tragedy struck. This book shows the struggles of difficult times and how that affects people in many ways. In this journal I will be connecting, visualizing, and evaluating. In this book I could connect with many parts of it. When Anna dies in an unexpected car accident I can connect to the way Brian and Kate feel. My grandma passed away in an unexpected car accident. When we got the call the unexpected shock set in. Along with the shock came confusion and sadness. It was one of the hardest days of my life when someone that close to me had passed away. Kate takes Anna’s death very hard on herself: “ There should be a statute of limitation on grief” (Picoult 421.) I can connect with Kate on this because on the four-hour drive up to my grandpas I cried the whole way home and the next few days. It had seemed that everywhere that I would have looked I would see someone crying. It felt like the tears and sadness would never …show more content…

When Brian gets the call at the hospital he goes to the scene of the car crash. I can visualize him going to the car expecting to not know who it was but once he made it to the car he realized that it was Anna and Campbell: “ It’s Anna. Paulie its Anna” (Picoult 414). I can picture the way that his face looks once he figures out that that it is his daughter. I can only imagine the way that he is feeling. Once they get Anna to the hospital I can see him and how hard it would be to keep the details away from his wife. In my mind I see Campbell in the hospital looking for Anna and wondering how she is doing. I can also see the doctor coming out to tell Sara and Brian that Anna is brain dead. When Campbell tells the doctor that he is the one to decide if Anna donates her organs I can picture the grief that are in her parents

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