My Sister’s Keeper is a 2004 domestic fiction novel written by the American author,

Jodi Picoult. This novel explores the difficult topic of a sixteen-year-old who has struggled
with leukemia since childhood and the lengths her family goes through in order to prolong
her life. In short, it tells the story of thirteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald who was brought to
the world to save her sister’s life. 

My Sister’s Keeper is one of my favourite novels as it provokes the reader to think

what it means to be a qualified parent or a good sibling. Whether it is morally correct to do
whatever it takes to save a child’s life, even if that means sacrificing the rights of another?
The way it is written really touched me. I like how each chapter is told from the different
point of view of the characters as I get to hear loads of different characters’ perspectives
and thoughts which really brings the character to life. At the end of the story, the death of
Anna is something completely unexpected which has really hit me hard.

Moving on, my favourite character of the novel is Kate Fitzgerald, the sister. She is a
very strong-minded girl and a fighter. In spite of having cancer for almost all her life, she has
not given up on life but at the moment when her parents ask Anna to donate a kidney to
her, she wavered. It is because she has never fulfilled her role as an elder sister and has
always been a burden to her sister Anna, resulting Anna can’t lead a normal life as other
people do. Therefore, she wishes her sister to stand up against her parent’s will as she still
has most of her life ahead of her and hopes that she could follow her heart and don’t be led
by people around her.

From this novel, I have learned that we should be in charge of our own life as no one
can make any decisions for us, not even our parents. I also learned that someone who really
loves you will love all of you; including your imperfections. “You don’t love someone
because they’re perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”- My Sister’s
Keeper, Jodi Picoult.