Q3 Post 3B

I'm reading My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult and LOVE IT!!

Wow!! This book makes me think a lot more than I thought it would, but that's definitly a good thing. I find Jesse, Anna's older brother, to be an interesting character. He has a reputation as being a rebel because he is always on drugs, smokes and drinks alot, is an arsonist, and watches playboy. However, I can't help but like him and feel bad for him. Sometimes I could even see him being a role model for Anna, not necessarily a positive one, but one who helps her through tough times in her life.

Anna decides that she wants to try a cigarette for the first time because she figures that she "might as well". Jesse is surprised and pulls the car off the road and lets her have her first cigarette. Smoking is bad, obviously, yet I think that he has good intentions in letting her try new things and teaching them to her. He also treats Anna like an adult, when she is treated like a child by almost everyone else. Her mother claims that Anna "doesn't know what she wants" yet Jesse thinks Anna is old enought to make her own decisions and he supports them. "'Anna,' he says, 'You're not doing the wrong thing'" (133).

Lastly, Jesse always just wants to help Anna because Anna is his only family member who enjoys his company and isn't absorbed by Kate's cancer. He tries to help her whenever he can whether its giving her a ride or just being a good listener. Anna says "For once, though, someone seems to understand. Jesse stares out the window of the car. 'Leave it to me,' he says" (133).