Post #4

Post Number 4

**This was originally posted on the due date, not even kidding, but it must have not gone through or I didn’t click the button correctly before I got off Blogger. I just noticed as I was about to do my fifth post. Please let me know if there’s a problem.

I finished My Sister’s Keeper a few days ago, and as I had predicted, the ending was not as suspenseful because I already knew what was going to happen. What surprised me though, was the fact that I was still really sad and almost tearful for Anna’s death and Kate’s life. It’s an interesting switch of events, because it’s almost implied that Kate will die without Anna. Well, when Anna dies, her kidney allows Kate’s life. They were always connected, and I don’t mean just because Anna was genetically engineered to help Kate. They were close sisters, and understood just how much they meant to each other. Growing up with anyone forms a strong bond between the two, and when that bond is broken its harder than anything.

It’s also a hard path for her parents to have taken, having a child to support another. The criticisms must have been never-ending, saying that they cared for Kate more than Anna and that Anna was just an experiment meant to save her sister’s life. There was no way that the entire family could have won in this situation, because without Anna’s birth, Kate was doomed, but they ended up losing a daughter anyway. It’s unfathomable to imagine the hurt a family would go through in those series of events. Even harder to imagine is Kate’s feelings, using her deceased sister’s kidney to live, when she made her go through the court appeal and everything so that she could die.

This book was so interesting and definitely worth reading a second time.

Stacey