“My sisters Keeper”

Teacher: Nora Alin Guzmán Pellagio

Student: Liz Andrea Navarrete Ruiz

RN: 293 ”C”

Preparatoria

Anna Fitzgerlad is a teenager who has been through many times by

the hospital. The surgeries, injections, immunizations, and

transfusions are part of your life. She is not sick, but his sister Kate

has leukemia. Anna's parents conceived so that she could

preserve the pitiful existence of Kate and Anna never had a

problem with that, until now that questions what is its place in the

family and the world. Despite professing love for his sister.

Sara FitzgeraldSara acts first and foremost as a mother throughout the novel, and her need to keep

her daughter, Kate, alive motivates her more than any

other impulse. Whatever other problem she

encounters, be it Jesse’s delinquency or Anna’s need

for independence, the matter holds less importance for her

than Kate’s survival

Characters

Campbell Alexander,

Campbell has almost no friends, except for his service dog, Judge. Instead, he

keeps himself closed off from others,

fearing his epilepsy will cause people to pity him or think him

a burden, and he uses his sarcasm to

hold people at a distance.

Jesse Fitzgerald Anna's brother spends most of his time setting fire to

abandoned buildings with home-made explosives

and doing drugs. He is a self-confessed juvenile

delinquent. One moment when his parents pay him

any attention is when Brian discovers that it is

Jesse who has been setting the fires.

Kate Fitzgerald - The middle Fitzgerald child and the focal point of many of the novel’s

events. Kate’s cancer is at the heart of the story, but

she only narrates the prologue and epilogue. She has struggled with cancer nearly her entire life, and she appears to

have come to terms with the fact that she might

die.

Brian Fitzgerald - The father of the Fitzgerald children and a career firefighter.

Brian often serves as a foil to Sara. In contrast to her, he can view the situation

from his children’s perspectives, making him both more perceptive and

understanding than Sara at times. Yet Brian also

escapes into his work to avoid dealing with the

hardships surrounding his family

Dr. Chance - Kate’s oncologist. A warm but serious

man, Dr. Chance represents the science and medicine

keeping Kate alive. He speaks to Sara and Brian very

honestly and directly about Kate’s condition, yet no matter

how bleak Kate’s situation gets, Dr. Chance always offers

hope that a treatment may work, even when the chances

are slim.

Judge DeSalvo - The judge appointed to

Anna’s case. Fair and kind, Judge DeSalvo genuinely cares for

Anna’s well-being. As the father of a child

killed by a drunk driver, he understands how desperately Sara and

Brian want to keep Kate alive.

Taylor Ambrose - Kate’s crush and fellow cancer

patient. Kate and Taylor’s short relationship

emphasizes that, at heart, Kate is a normal teenage girl. Yet Taylor’s sudden

death underscores the fact that Kate’s condition

remains extremely fragile and that she could die with

little warning

Izzy Romano - Julia’s twin sister and roommate.

Izzy’s dislike of Campbell reflects how much he hurt Julia, and her presence in

the story serves as another example of the

extreme closeness that can exist between sisters

Judge (the dog) - Campbell’s service dog. Campbell does not reveal why he needs Judge for most of the book. Ultimately he reveals that Judge is an epilepsy service dog, meaning he alerts Campbell if a seizure is imminent so Campbell can move to a safe environment.

Time LineWhen Sara Fitzgerald gave birth to Kate, she and her husband Brian were overjoyed with the arrival of the

baby. But joy turned to fear when Kate was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. Kate's health

became the center of the family, which grew even more with the birth of his sister Anna.

But Anna was not expected to be just another family member. She was a necessity, conceived with the perfect genetic combination, designed

specifically to save Kate's life.

Eleven years of living the routine of endless medical procedures,

complications and hospital stays, and Kate's kidneys are failing. She needs a

new one, But Anna, with her 11-year-old says, for the first time: "what about me?" And for the first time, refuses to give part of herself to her sister Kate. Instead, he

decides to sue her parents for the right to protect his own body.

"Anna knows her parents will be angry with her, everyone will think

she is selfish and bad," says the young actress Abigail Breslin, who

plays Anna. "But there is more to his decision, she has her reasons."

But at the end of this case they do not know is that Kate is the one Fitzgerald is

asking a favor to his sister Anne who was no longer where else to it, because all I wanted was the girl with leukemia and rest in peace peace and return to

see his friend in the sky

Anna's decision will have a profound and very serious

Settings

My Comment and What I am going to

doIn my opinion this is a movie very strong in the

sense that they are actually doing difficult decisions, and has much to do with yourself, for your sake but also everything you do for your

around, most people want, but when you realize that most people do not want everything in your

life because you do not really want to be very difficult and if I were at this position would be

very difficult for me to move on.And so I stayed and took me here is that there is

nothing to worry about small problems that happen to me, sometimes I can tell it is that ami because everything happens to me, but it really transcends other cases there is no reason to feel so, there to do by other people because I think both I do not know if there is someone who is

going through worse and I think mine is the most difficult, and I think I should be more attentive to

people around me and give always a smile.