Book Report My Sister's Keeper

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“My father says that a fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.” –
Anna Fitzgerald

1a. Title: My sister’s keeper
1b. Author: Jodi Picoult
1c. First date of publication: 2004

2a. The story takes place in the present, but there are also a lot of memories which go back in the past. If you count all these memories in, the story takes place from 1990 till 2010. The first and last year are mentioned in the book. If you don’t count these memories in, the story takes place within a year. You can tell this by the time that’s passing by through the appointments with the judge about the lawsuit Anna has started.

2b. Most of the story takes place at these 3 locations; the hospital, the house of the Fitzgeralds and the
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The judge, Cambel and Anna’s parents find out why Anna does all this effort to actually kill her sister. Anna finally reveals the secret she kept between Kate, Brian and her. She tells everyone at the courtroom that Kate asked her to kill her. She made al this effort to help her big sister escape this world full of pain. At this pint everything becomes clear to Anna’s parents and the judge tells the two parts, Anna & Cambel and Sara & Brian she has to talk to Kate first before she makes a final decision.
5e. After the judge has talked to Kate, she decides to give Anna her rights. Everything seems to work out for Anna, Cambel and Kate. But could Anna really let her sister die? She also wasn’t aware of this question at that point.
5f. Anna tells her parents she’s feels sorry about their loss, but that this is what Kate wanted. After her parents leave the courtroom, Anna still has to fill in some papers with Cambel. When they leave the courtroom, Cambel and Anna get involved in a car incident. Anna doesn’t survive the accident, and dies in the hospital. A doctor asks Sara and Brian if they want to donate any of Anna’s organs, and then Kate comes up. Cambel takes the word, and tells the doctors that they should give one of Anna’s kidneys to Kate. Anna took Kate’s place in heaven. Kate gets to live her life without pain, but everything changed in the Fitzgerald’s

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