Q3 Post 2B

I'm reading My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

People's parenting styles are so different in each family, but thats what makes their children different. Everyone has things they like and dislike about how their parents raised them. Personnally, I can't help but judge other families and how they are run. I think its interesting how different my parents are from my friends' parents and my aunts and uncles.

In My Sister's Keeper Anna's parents had Jesse and Kate and when they learned that Kate had cancer, they had Anna, a perfect DNA match. I dislike Anna's mother because of the way she handles this situation. She was only thinking of Kate and never thought of the moral issues Anna might struggle with during her lifetime. She spends way too much of her time focusing on Kate and basically none on Anna and Jesse. Jesse lives out in the garage and no one seems to care about him.

"My mother closes her eyes. 'Jesse, you know, now would be a good time for you to leave.' 'You don't have to ask me twice,' he says, his voice full of broken glass. We hear the front door open and shut, a whole story" (91).

Anna goes unnoticed in their family as well.

"This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly that nobody noticed" (40).

Jesse is quite the rebel because of his parents' neglect for him and now Anna is rebelling, only she has taken her case to court, trying to get what she wants in a civil way.