This paper analyses the role of Anna Fitzgerald and her character traits in the novel “My sister’s keeper” which was written by Jodi Picoult became the best-selling novel in the United States of America in 2004. “My sister’s keeper” novel is basically about a thirteen-year-old young lady Anna Fitzgerald who was born through laboratory fertilization to save the life of her sister Kate Fitzgerald who was suffering from acute Promyelocytic leukemia. Anna Fitzgerald was to donate her bodily substances such as blood, bone marrow, leukocytes, stem cells, and even the umbilical cord blood to her sister Kate Fitzgerald. Their mother left her job as a lawyer in order to take care of Kate Fitzgerald.
Anna Fitzgerald spent most of her early age in hospital with surgeries and other processes that affected her health greatly. At the age of thirteen years old, Anna Fitzgerald this round was supposed to donate her kidney to her sister Kate Fitzgerald. This was indeed a major surgery for Kate and as a donor, Anna Fitzgerald felt that this was really going to affect her life. The effects included difficulty in becoming pregnant when her time comes and also the duration of non-contact sports that was to put the outstanding kidney at greater danger. These are things that Anna considered and hence to her life with one kidney was a matter of life and death. However, all she needed was to be given time to make her own decision whether to donate her kidney or not. Unfortunately, since her parents could not give her time to decide alone, at long last, she decided to sue them for medical liberation and this led to great friction in her family making her parents angry over her. At long last in her trial, the judge ruled in favor of Anna Fitzgerald but unfortunately, after winning her case she got involved in an accident and she was rushed to the hospital in a coma state. Her father organizes with the doctor and transplants the kidney to Kate and Anna Fitzgerald died.
Anna Fitzgerald is portrayed as long-suffering this can be depicted when she spent most of her early age in hospital with surgeries and other processes only to donate her bodily substances to her sister who was sick. She is loving due to the sacrifices she had been making over the years, for example being a donor to her sister. She is careering and this can be shown from the way she was missing from parties made by her friends and even camps just but to name a few indeed demonstrates how much she loved her sister and her family at large.
Jodi Picoult portrays Anna Fitzgerald as obedient especially when she heeds her mother’s advice not to go far since Kate Fitzgerald depended on her in case of needs. This also shows how she was so obedient to her parents however the issue that led her to sue her parents was so personal and it needed her own decision.
The story in the novel “My sister’s keeper” is so moving to an extent of leaving people with lots of feelings about it. It mainly focuses on the emotions of Anna Fitzgerald who is also the main character and her reactions to some situations and life experiences that she undergoes. The facts in the story reflect not far from what is happening in our society today. Laboratory fertilization has also become so common and Judi Picoult must have done a lot of research to come up with such a story that can smack a triad on numerous parents who take immense risks to save their children out of some situations.