My Sister's Keeper relates to many of the other books we have read this year because of the isolation the characters experience. Jesse experiences self inflicted isolation because he hates being home to see the problems his family is undergoing. Kate experiences social isolation because she cannot attend school and only interacts with the people at the hospital and her family. When she meets Taylor, goes dress shopping, and attends the dance she realizes how amazing a social life can be. However, when Taylor dies, she hates everything and quickly returns to her isolation. Characters in our school books such as Chief Bromden from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and John from Huxley's Brave New World.
My Sister's Keeper
My Sister's Keeper is the story of a girl who sues her parents for a right to make her own medical decisions. Anna was conceived after her older sister was diagnosed with leukemia. She is a perfect match for her sister, and spends her life in the hospital donating blood, marrow and whatever else her sister needs to live. As a teenager, she sues so that she will not have to give her sister a kidney. My Sister's Keeper covers the life of this family during the trial. Each chapter is told from a different character's viewpoint.