Submitted as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Sarjana Degree at English Department Faculty of Letters and Humanities UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya
By:
Siti Maryam
Reg. Number: A83212181
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LETTERS AND HUMANITIES
ABSTRACT
Maryam, Siti. 2016. An Analysis of Intrinsic Elements in Jodi Picoult. My Sister’s Keeper.
A Thesis: English Department Faculty of Letters and Humanities. States Islamic University Sunan Ampel Surabaya, July 25, 2016.
The Advisor: Wahju Kusumajanti, M. Hum.
This thesis entailed analysis of the intrinsic element in Jodi Picoult My Sister’s Keeper. This analysis focuses on some intrinsic elements. The intrinsic element is a part of the Formalism theory approach. The aim of this research is to find out the intrinsic element and how the intrinsic element describes the character and characterizations, plot, and moral value in My Sister Keeper novel.
This thesis uses of descriptive analytic methods to describes and analyze the problems. Firstly, the writer begins to read the object, and then select the data and the last analyze of data.
The finding of this research shows that Anna, Sara, Brian and Campbell have same purpose in life for example to save Kate’s life. The second is analyzing of plot, it contains by exposition, complication, climax, falling action and resolution. The moral value shows there is nothing impossible, as long as the human have attempted to make it achievable.
INTISARI
Maryam, Siti. 2016. An Analysis of Intrinsic Elements in Jodi Picoult My Sister’s Keeper Skripsi. Sastra Inggris. Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora. Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya.
Pembimbing: Wahju Kusumajanti, M.Hum.
Skripsi ini berjudul analysis intrinsic elements pada novel My Sister’s Keeper, yang di karang oleh Jodi Picoult. Analsis ini focus pada beberapa intrinsic elements. Intinnsik elements merupakan bagian dari pendekatakan formalism theory. tujuan dari analysis ini adalah untuk menemukan intrinsic element dan bagaimana intrinsic elemen ini dapat menjelaskan tokoh dan penokohan, plot, serta nilai moral yang ada pada novel My Sister Keeper.
Skripsi ini menggunakan metode diskriptif analisis untuk menjelaskan dan menganalisa masalah, pertama- tama penulis membaca dan kemudian memilih dan yang terakhir menganalisis data.
Hasil dari temuan ketiga masalah yaitu : pertama tokoh dan penokohan dari tokoh Anna, Sara, Brian dan Champbel. Mereka mempunyai tujuan yang sama untuk menyelamatkan hidup Kate. yang ke dua adalah analisa plot, meliputi : eksposisi, konflik, puncak, solusi dan resolusi. yang ketiga adalah tentang nilai moral, penulis menyimpulkan bahwa ketika manusia mempunyai kemauan dan usaha yang kuat, mereka akan mendapatkan hasil dari usaha itu.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Inside Cover Page………...i
Inside Title Page ...ii
Declaration Page...iii
Thesis Advisor’s Approval Page ... iv
Thesis Examiner’s Approval Page…... v
Motto... xi
Dedication Page... vii
Acknowledgement...viii
Table of Contents...x
Abstract...xiii
Intisari...xiv
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background of the Study... 1
1.2 Statement of the Problem...4
1.3 Objective of the Study... 4
1.4 Scope and Limitation... 5
1.5 Significance of the Study... 5
1.6 Method of the Study...6
2.1. Russian Formalism………... 9
2.1.2. Intrinsic Elements……….10
2.1.2.1. Characters ……….………10
2.1.2.2. Characterizations...12
2.1.2.3. Plot.………...13
Exposition……….14
Complication ………..…...14
Climax ………...15
Falling Action…...16
Denouement …... 16
2.1.2.4. Moral Value …...16
2.1.2.4.1. Moral ………...16
2.1.2.4.2. Value ………...17
2.1.2.4.3. Direct Extend of Moral Value ………...21
2.1.2.4.4. Indirect Extend of Moral Value ………..……..21
2.2. Review of Related Studies ………...22
CHAPTER 3: ANALYSIS 3.1. Characters and characterizations ...23
3.1.1. Anna Fitzgerald ………..….………..23
3.1.1.1.Anna Fitzgerald As Daughter………..…………...27
3.1.1.2.Anna is Loving Person ………..27
b. Anna loves Mother...……….…………...30
3.1.2. Sara Fitzgerald ………..……..…………..31
3.1.2.1. Sara Fitzgerald as Mother ………... 31
3.1.2.2. Sara Fitzgerald is Self Confident Person………..33
3.1.2.3. Sara Fitzgerald is an Egoist Person………...…34
3.1.3. Brian Fitzgerald ………..……… 35
3.1.3.1. Brian as Father ……….………..………..35
3.1.3.2. Brian is A Wise Person ……….…………..………….36
3.1.4. Alexander Campbell ……….. .. 37
3.1.4.1. Alexander Campbell is A Kind Person……… 37
3.2. Plot……….……….39
3.2.1. Exposition ……….…39
3.2.2. Complication………..40
3.2.3. Climax ………..…….41
3.2.4. Falling Actions………..….45
3.2.5. Resolution ……….………45
3.3. Moral Value of the Story………...………...47
CHAPTER 4: CONCLUSION... 50
WORKS CITED...52
APPENDIX SYNOPSIS...55
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the study
Literature is a permanent expression in the words of some thoughts or feelings or idea about life and the world (Res 9). In other opinions states that
literature is a creative activity, or work of art (Wellek and Warren 7). From the definitions above, the writer concludes that literature is literary work of human
who wants to express their feelings, ideas or thoughts in words and acts.
One of the type of literary works is prose. Prose refer is simply to any written piece of work that is built on sentence and paragraphs. Prose has two
types: the first type is fiction prose and the second type is the non fiction prose (Edgar and Jacobs 2).
The first type is non fictions. Non fiction prose is literary work which
describes or interprets about the facts, present judgments, and opinions (Abrams 106). In other word states that non fiction prose is content in the form of the story
whose creator in reality of writing (Terry 72). It includes: essays, newspaper, encyclopedia, biography, and magazines.
The second type is fiction prose. According to Abrams, in Glossary of
Literary Terms, he said that a fictional prose is any literary narrative, whether in
creations and imaginations (Terry 77). For example: novel, short story, romance,
and parable.
The novel is one of the fictions prose. According to Wolfeys, he said that
the novel contains a piece of prose fictions which are assumable longest. In other opinions states that the novel is an imaginary object that include, myth, symbol and convention to satisfy all time and place (Bluestones 31).
The novel is an imaginative prose narrative of some length, usually concerned with human experience and social behavior and normally cast in the
form of a connected story (Webster 687). A novel stated novel because novel has been a long story that is written by the author. From the explanations above, the writer concludes that the novel is a fiction of prose, which has long stories who is
written by the author. The author can be free for writing their imaginations, their feelings or their thoughts.
In addition, in studying a text novel. The readers would know several
aspects that built a novel. They are intrinsic and extrinsic elements. The intrinsic element is the elements which develop the literary work from inside such as: plot,
character and characterizations, and the moral value. All of this makes a story come to life. The intrinsic element is important to analysis the novel because intrinsic element is the soul of the novel (John 86). So that's why intrinsic
elements are important for analysis, because unsure intrinsic element is more complex in analysis of the novel.
of the Heart (1994), Picture Perfect (1995), Mercy (1996), The Pact (1998),
Keeping Faith (1999), Plain Truth (2000), Salem Falls (2001), Perfect Match
(2002), Second Glance (2003), My sister’s Keeper (2004), Vanishing Acts (2005),
The Tenth Circle (2006), Nineteen Minutes (2007), Change of the Heart (2008),
Handle with Care (2009), House Rules (2010), Sing You Home (2012), The Story
Teller (2013),and the last is Leaving Time (2014). (www.elspringer.com ).
Jodi Picoult was born on 19 May, 1966, New York. When she was young, she had ambitions to be a writer. She got designations A.B for the creative writing
from Princeton University and Masters from Harvard University. In 2003 Jodi Picoult got esteem New England Book Award for her fiction. In 2006 she made 13 novels and most of them talked about family, privacy, and love.
At present Jodi Picoult had created a hugely successful career writing high octane dramas about families ravaged by event straight off the CNN ticker. Date rape, school shooting, the sexual abuse of children and teen suicide
(http://www/jodipicoult.com/jodipicoult).
Among all of Jodi Picoult works, the writer prefers to choose My Sister’s
Keeper novel. There are some reasons that writer has. The first reason, because
My Sister’s Keeper has a background of the family story. This novel teaches how
to be a good parent, a good sister and good daughter and good life. Besides that,
this novel is talking about the struggle family to survive their daughter. The second reason, because this novel has a story of many sides of all characters.
same problems, or especially how to know and understand about families who
stand leukemia on Kate. The last reason, because My Sister’s Keeper novel is the real evidence ability for surviving life in the top a big tragedy, where is in this
novel insight about the patient, emotions, good responsibility, and knows the meaning of decision in life.
Anna was born by a tube process. She is the one who has a specific genetic with Kate’s body. Kate is Anna’s sister who has leukemia ill. Anna gives
everything that she has gives for save Kate, like donor her bone marrow, and her
bloods to make Kate healthy. But at that time, Kate has fail kidneys, Kate need of Anna’s kidney to keep her life. The major character of this novel is attractive, they
to be a good character in this novel, like Anna, Sara, Brian and Campbell. They
have a same problem, but actually they have same purpose to save Kate alive. The conflict of this story appears when Sara asks to Anna that she must donor her kidney to keep Kate’s life. Anna was refused that, she makes her parents so shock
because Anna claimed her mother in the court for getting her medical emancipation of her body.
Based on the explanation above, the writer is interested in analyzing the intrinsic elements in the novel My Sister’s Keeper. These elements include: the character and characterizations, the plot, and moral value. Moreover, the writer
1.2. Statement of the problem
Based on the background of the study above, the writer formulates the problems as follow:
1.2.1. How four characters and characterizations are described in the novel My
Sister’s Keeper?
1.2.2. How is the plot of the novel?
1.2.3. What is the moral value seen from the character and plot of the story?
1.3. Objective of the Study
Based on the problems of the study above, this study has three objectives that can be stated as follows:
1.3.1. To describe five characters and characterization as the main character in
the novel of My Sister’s Keeper.
1.3.2. To explain the plot in the novel My Sister’s Keeper.
1.3.3. To find the moral value in the novel of My Sister’s Keeper.
1.4. Scope and Limitation
In order to prevent non- relevant of problems, this study will be limited to the novel of My Sister’s Keepers. The study then focuses on the intrinsic elements in
the novel such as character and characterizations of all characters in the novel, to answer statements of the problems stated above, the first to know how all
analysis. Besides that, the limitations of this study the writer Russian Formalism
theory to analyze novel My Sister’s Keeper.
1.5. Signification of the study
The writer hopes that readers of this thesis will get an understanding about three aspects, the first to know more about the characters and
characterization study. The seconds is about how the plot that happened in the novel My Sister’s Keeper, and the last, what is the moral value founded on the
novel My Sister’s Keeper.
Throughout this study, the writer also hopes that the readers will get more understanding and knowledge about Jodi Picoult, especially My Sister’s
Keeper novel. Moreover, the readers can explore more about some information’s
from this study and both understanding and appreciated Jodi Picoult other literary works. The writer also hopes that this study will give contributions to the literary
study, especially in English Department Adab Faculty and Humanities of State Islamic University Sunan Ampel.
1.6. Research Method
This research used descriptive qualitative method in conducting the analysis, the writer choose this method because the objective of this study is the story of
1.6.1.1. Research Design
In doing this research, the writer has to collect and looks for the data, so the writer uses library research and field research that can support the objective of the
study. This study uses My Sister’s Keeper novel written by Jodi Picoult. Thus through a descriptive qualitative method, this study wants to get a valid description about the intrinsic elements. Based on the problems above, the writer
quotes some theories which are related to the subject of the study. This study uses an analytical approach theory. The writer also takes any sources such as books,
references and internet, media for analyzing the data.
1.6.2. Procedure of Analysis
The data which have been collected will be analyzed using literary theory. This research is library based, in presenting the analysis; this research mainly uses descriptive-analytical method. The research follows
the following steps: 1.6.2.1. Reading the novel.
1.6.2.2. Setting the statement of the problems.
1.6.2.3. Collecting data from the main source and secondary source which support the statement of the statements of the problems.
1.6.2.4. Analyze the data.
1.7. Definition of Key Terms
Intrinsic Elements: The formal elements of the novel, where is consist of by the character, characterizations, plot, setting, moral value,
and symbol (Tyson 137).
Character : Person who is playing in the novel (Gill 90). Characterization : The creating of a character in a story (Tyson 150).
Plot : How the way a conflict happened in the novel (Tyson 157).
CHAPTER 2
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
This study focus on the theory to analyzes. Russian Formalism is the main theory. It included by intrinsic elements in the novel My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult. The intrinsic elements of the novel that will be the focuses on the analysis
are included: characters and characterizations, plot, and also the moral value of this novel.
2.1. Russian Formalism
Formalism is a type of literary theory and analysis which comes from
Russian in the second decade of this century (M. H. Abrams 102). On the other hand states that Russian formalism is theory which focuses on the formal patterns and technical devices literary works (Gillespie 125).
Based on the explanations above, the writer concludes that Russian formalism is focuson the form of literary work rather than the content; it means
that formalism is theory focus on the intrinsic elements in the literary works, because formalism focuses on the form, so formalism does not need external factor like biographical, social, political, or cultural context. The readers will find
2.1.2. Intrinsic Elements
Intrinsic element is an important way to study literature, especially in fiction. The readers cannot separate the literary works from those basic elements.
Those elements called intrinsic elements. Basically, if the readers do not understand anything about the intrinsic elements, readers will face some difficulties in analyzing fiction. Intrinsic elements to be the most important tool
have in order to get an understanding about the novel.
According to Griffith, he said that each intrinsic element of the text
contributes meaning to the whole of the story. Even though all of the intrinsic elements deliver meaning to the story, it is better to examine several intrinsic elements of the texts to get the central meaning of it (27). Intrinsic element is a
part of the story, which are related each other to build the whole of a story (Nurgiyantoro 22).
One of the ways to understand about the meaning of literary works is by
paying attention on the text itself, mainly is intrinsic elements, Such as: character and characterizations, plot and moral value. The readers will easily convey the
meaning of the story (DiYanni 44). The writer concludes that by intrinsic elements, readers will easily get the meaning of the story, it includes by character and characterization, plot and moral value in the novel.
2.1.2.1 Characters
Character is one of the intrinsic elements. The character has an important role in the story. Besides, it makes the story alive. Character is also viewed as
convey in the story. So, a character which represents a person becomes something
interest in the story. As Holman states that character most often used to refer to a person in a fictional story (23). In other opinions states that character in a novel
can be differentiated into several kinds based on point of view, character can be categorized into several at once, for example as main character protagonist and character's antagonist (Foster 44).
Besides that Foster also said that characters have two types, these are: The first type is major character or round character. A round character changes as a
result of what happens to him or her. A character that changes inside as a result of what happens to him is referred to in literature as a dynamic character. A dynamic character grows or progress to be a higher level of understanding of the course of
the story (Foster 46). The second type is minor character or flat characters. The minor character is always flat or two dimensional characters. They have only one or two striking qualities. Their predominant quality is not balanced by an opposite
quality. They are usually all good or all bad, such as character can be interesting or amusing in their own right. But they lack depth, it mean that minor character is
flat characters are sometimes referred as a static character because they do not change in the course of the story (Foster 47).
Based on the foster statements above, the writer concludes that the
character is a person who is playing in the story. There are some types of character. The first type is the protagonist, the seconds is antagonist and the last is
of force that opposes the protagonist. And the last type character is foil character.
Sometimes the foil character called as the character that provides controls to protagonist.
2.1.2.2. Characterizations
Characterization is the creations of character imaginary persons (Holman 52). The differences between characters and characterization are if character refers to of person in literary work, meanwhile characterizations refer to the way in
which a character is created (Richard 127). It means that by characterizations the readers will know the personality of person in the novel, through with their actions and their saying or through the other people’s saying about them. So that
they axis for the reader as real within the limits of the fiction. The writer concludes that characterization is a way and technique of an author to make the
readers understand of personality and will know the image of a character in literary fictions.
There are two ways of author uses to present the characters: dramatic and analytic method. The dramatic method is indirect presentations, it means that the author presents the character as he sees the character by another character
opinions, it includes by their conversations with each other character, and their actions. Besides that the analytic method is while the author gives a clear image of
2.1.2.3Plot
The plot is one of the intrinsic elements of literary text which consists of events in the story which makes the readers interested in the story and go on to follow it. According to Richard states that plot is the order of events in which the
reader learns of them (Richard 164). Richard also states that the plot is incidents written a particular order that reveals literary meaning and gives influence on the reader’s emotion and thoughts (167). By paying attentions of plot, the readers will
raise expectation, interest, or surprise and relieved feeling toward the text.
Through expectation, the readers will be led to predict some particular things which might happen with certain things experienced by the characters (Gill 118). A plot will consist of many causes which make a character go to throw as
an important event in his or her life. By examining the plot, the readers will know the reasons why one event happened and followed by another. In many novels, the events of the characters will shape his or her future, which will affect the
character's achievements in the future (Gill 121-122).
In some novels, from the journeys in the plot, the character will makes
discoveries about life. He or she will recognize the failure her or she made in the past and tries to replace it with a better one. He or she will understand about a responsibility in life. The growth of a character in understanding his or her life
will affect the following events on the plot (Gill 124-125).
Plot or the structure of actions is used to indicate almost any kind of action
states that the plot is literary terms used to describe the events that make up a
story or the main part a story. These events relate to each other in a pattern or a sequence. The structure of a novel depends on the organizations of events in the
plot of the story (Hall30).
Based on the explanations above, the writer concludes that plot is everything that happens in the novel, and it is certainly supported by characters
and characterizations in the novel. Moreover, the plot is known as the foundations of the novel. Which characters and setting are built around, it is meant to organize information’s and events in a logical manner.
According to Adler he said that the plot has five elements, they are:
1. Expositions
Expositions or introduction, it means that how the problems
beginning of the story where characters and setting are established. Other explanation states that expositions are the starting point of narrative providing information’s about the main character and setting in the
narrative. Expositions also called as the background information’s necessary to know to understand the actions, picture the setting, and bring
up the main character (Diyanni 44). Based on the explanations above, the writer concludes that exposition is how the beginning conflict or problems
2. Complication
The next step of the plot is complicated. Complication introduces the conflict or problem in the story. The protagonist starts to reveal some
of their problems and goals. This part also reveals the events where it becomes complicated and the conflict raised. The complication includes the appearance of some circumstance or event that shakes up the stable
situation and begins the rising action of the story.
According to Gwynn complication in a story may be either external
or internal, or a combination of the two. However, the complication is also the body of a story; it comprises a number of scenes containing action and dialogue. It builds some crisis moments, but the dénouement of the
complication seems at hand, but quickly disappears (Gwynn 9). The writer concludes that complication is problems in the story will happen and developed.
3. Climax
The climax is the critical point at which the central character is about to win or lose all. It features the most conflict and struggle which the
most probable outcome of the main conflict is finally revealed. Gwynn says that the central moment of crisis in a plot is the climax, or moments
confrontation (Gwynn 9). Based on the explanations above, the writer
concludes that climax is how the way to end the conflict happened in the story.
4. Falling Action
The story finds the solution in falling action. Falling action is the second half or resolution of a dramatic plot (Holman 180). It means that the author usually gives the solution of the story to close the problem and
the story almost ends.
5. Dénouement
Dénouement (resolution) is a French word which literally means
untying. This part reveals the final outcome or result of conflicts in the story (Gwynn 10). Gwynn says that the dénouement returns of character to another stable situation. Just as fairy tales traditionally end with “and they
lived happily ever after”, many stories conclude with an indication of what the future holds for the character.
2.1.2.4Moral Value
2.1.2.4.1 Moral
According to Steinberg (Steinberg 938), morality refers to concern with what is good or right in people’s relationships with each other. A key to
understanding morality is to be specific about definition of good (or bad) and right
assurance and inner attitude and is not merely an adjustment to the rules of the
outside, whether it's state law, religion or customs.
Immanuel Kant, saying that morality concerning good and bad things, it
means that what is good in yourself, good on any restrictions at all. It is further said that, the quality of one's moral criterion is loyalty itself. Morality is the implementation of the obligations of respect for the law, while the law it is written
in the human heart.
In other words, morality is determined to follow what the heart is
recognized as an absolute obligation. Moral goodness is good in all respects, without restrictions, so it is good not only from some aspects, but either or both just absolute. A morality contains: (1) beliefs about the nature of the man. (2)
Belief about ideals, about what is good or desirable or worthy or pursuit for its own sake. (3) Rules laying down what ought to be done. (4) Motives that incline us to choose the right or the wrong course, (Paul Edwards 150). I choose
Immanuel definition because it is definitely more complex than the other.
2.1.2.4.2 Value
The term “values” may suggest that judgments of right and wrong, lofty
and base, just and unjust, and more personal preferences, that thing are useful as individuals happen to value them (Benninga 131). Value is something that
interesting for us, something that we look for something that pleases, something that loved, and in short value is something good. Value has a good connotation
Based on the explanations above, the writer concludes that value is about
right and wrong, between good and bad people person, and it is the way other peoples' judgments other people.
a. Direct Extend of Moral Value
In direct extend of moral value, the author usually descriptive characterization of the character directly of extending the moral value of the literary work directly (Nurgiyantoro335). It means that the reader knows
characterization of character and moral value of literary work directly from the author’s explanation.
b. Indirect Extend of Moral Value
Moral value can describe indirectly in literary work. The author extends the moral value in the plot of the story. It shows in the event of conflict of the
story (Nurgiyantoro 339). The reader gets moral value from every scene that the character do or event in the story. Indirect extend also have a shortage. Sometime, the reader has a different point of view with the author because the
author does not explain the moral value directly but explain in every event in the story.
2.2. Review of Related Studies
A review of related studies is needed, because it is to justify that a literary work has not been used before by applying a close-fitting approach compared
with other research and even though it has been used. A review of literature is very significant. It is intended to distinguish a previous research with a new one in order to assure its originality.
The first is students of States Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. His name is Febri Indah Sari (2011). Entitled, A main character analysis of My Sister’s Keeper movie using a hierarchy of human need of Abraham H,
Maslow’s Theory. In this thesis purpose of analysis the main character using
theory of human need. In this thesis, she tries to find how the main character
needs self actualization, it is based on the theory of Abraham H, Maslow’s.
The seconds is students from State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta. His name is Nurfatimah Zainal (2013). Her title is Not all children are created equal: Discriminations again children as seen in My Sister’s Keeper
novel. In this thesis, she is focusing to explain how the discrimination against
children in society as seen in My Sister’s Keeper. In this study, she used a discrimination against children to analyze.
The third is Irma Astuti (2009) Faculty of English Educations Ahmad Dahlan University of Yogyakarta, Her titled is “An Analysis of Sara’s Personality
in Jodi Picoult My Sister’s Keeper”. She is focusing to describe the
psychological approach to analyze Sarah Personality in Jodi Picoult My Sister’s
Keeper.
The last is Zeal Fachruddin Aghitsa (2014), Faculty of Cultural Studies
University of Brawijaya. His titleis ”Anna Fitzgerald rebellion towards her mother in her early adolescence period as depicted in Nick Cassavetes My
Sister’s Keeper novel”. He is focusing to identify the problems of the main
character in childhood who is rebellion her mother in the court. He used the theory of the social background to analysis the main character in the novel My Sister’s Keeper novel by Jodi Picoult.
The researches above are similar to what the writer conducts. What makes this research is different, the writer analyzes unsure intrinsic in the novel My
Sister Keeper novel, which are used of Russian Formalism as main theory and
using the intrinsic elements for analysis that novel. It is included by some characters and characterizations, the plot, and the last is to find the moral value in
CHAPTER 3
ANALYSIS
This chapter contains data analysis, which related to some intrinsic
elements. The writer divides this chapter into three parts answer the statement of
problems. The first part is about four characters and their characterizations in
novel, the second part are about the plot and the third is to find the moral value in
the novel My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult.
3.1. Character and characterization four characters
Character is an important element that builds the story because a character
is a person who carries out the events of the story and those events become a story
(Gillespie 20). From many characters in this story, the writer only discusses four
characters because the writer only focuses for the major character which are
considered have a characteristic, because of that, this analysis is divided into four
characters which is becoming an important part of the novel. The four characters
have a dominant personality. Those are: Anna, Sara, Brian and the last is
Campbell as the lawyer. The writer will explain those characters and
characterizations in this chapter.
3.1.1. Anna Fitzgerald
A protagonist is an identical with all the good character inside the actors
which had been chosen and created by the author. According to Altenberd and
which always called as a hero because he or she always does ideal role and follow
the rules.
Based on the explanation above, the writer concludes that Anna is the
main character of this story because she has an ideal role and she follows the rule
of this story. Anna is a little girl who struggles to be accepted and respected in her
family, especially to her sister. In this story Anna was born for a specific purpose,
for example to save her sister Kate.
On the other hand, I was born for a very specific purpose, to create a specific combination of precious genetic material. In fact, when Jesse told me how babies get made and I, the great disbeliever, decided to ask my parents the truth, I got more than I
bargained for. They sat me down and told me all the usual stuff, of course--but they also explained that they chose little embryonic me, specifically, because I could save my sister, Kate. (Picoult 4).
Anna is a perfect donor for Kate, because she has a perfect combination
with Kate’s body, the birth of Anna's plan through baby tubes program, because
at the time Kate has Leukemia disease, it refers to from the quotation below:
Suddenly Dr. Farquad, whom we have not seen for hours, comes into the room. "I hear there was a little problem with the coagulopathy panel." She pulls up a chair in front of us. "Kate's complete blood count had some abnormal results. Her white blood count is very low--1.3. Her hemoglobin is 7.5, her hematocrit is 18.4, her platelets are 81,000, and her neutrophils are 0.6. Numbers like that sometimes indicate an autoimmune disease. But Kate's also presenting with twelve percent promyelocytes, and five percent blasts, and that suggests a leukemic syndrome."
This conversation happened while Sara and Brian know that Kate is
diagnosed Leukemia, and then the one way to make Kate alive is Brian and Sara
must do a program tube baby. It proposes to get a specific donor for Kate. Since
Anna was born, the doctors take her a bone marrow to put on Kate’s bone. It is to
make Kate keep alive. It refers to the quotation below:
"The first time I gave something to my sister, it was cord blood, and I was a newborn. She has leukemia—APL (Acacute Promyelocytic Leukemia). and my cells put her into remission. The next time she relapsed, I was five and I had lymphocytes drawn from me, three times over, because the doctors never seemed to get enough of them the first time around. When that stopped working, they took bone marrow for a transplant. When Kate got infections, I had to donate granulocytes. When she relapsed again, I had to donate peripheral blood stem cells”. (Picoult 12).
Based on the quotation above, it shows that Anna not only donates her bone
marrow for Kate, but also the other Kate needs, like her lymphocytes,
granulocytes and her blood stem cells. Over time, Anna grew up and she was
already 13 years old. The first relationship between Anna and Kate is normally
like another sister relations. They take care of each other and sometimes make
jokes together. It can be seen from conversation below:
Kate: Hey, Mom, You wanna sees our routine? Sara: what routine?
Anna: hey baby, what’s your sign? Kate: Cancer
Anna: you are a cancer? Kate: No, I am Leo…
Anna and Kate: But I have cancer, (Picoult 10).
From the dialogue above, it shows that all the members of her family are
When she was two; she's sixteen now. Molecular relapse and granulocyte and portacath--these words are part of my vocabulary, even though I'll never find them on any SAT. I'm an allergenic donor--a perfect sibling match. When Kate needs leukocytes or stem cells or bone marrow to fool her body into thinking it's healthy, I'm the one who provides them. Nearly every time Kate's Hospitalized, I wind up there, too”. (Picoult 11).
Based on the quotation above, the writer concludes that Anna cares about
Kate. She is always there, when Kate needs her. She is a good sister, she is very
kind, and she will do anything to save her sister as much as possible. Moreover,
she is ready at the hospital whenever Kate needs her. Never think how much the
illness in her feelings while she does of operations and donate for Kate, it's just for
Kate to stay alive and healthy.
Time passes by, Anna changes to be a different character, Anna thinks that
her appearances are just to be a donor, she feels sad and she thinks that her parents
only care and give a big attention to her sister, she has a blurt out with her
arguments together right from her parent, especially to get attention and affection
from her parent, it refers from the conversation below:
Anna : I want to sue my parent for the right to my own body. Campbell: Would you repeat that, please?
Anna : I want to sue my parents for the right to my own body, my sister has leukemia. They are trying to force me to give her my body part. (Picoult 201).
Based on the conversation above, it shows that Anna is insisting on her
want to sue her mother in the court. She is firm with her arguments. This
depiction is far different from her first character. Anna is really trying hard to sue
want to give her kidney to her sister, because if she does it many problems will
face in her future, especially for her health.
Based on the explanation above, the writer concludes that the main
character of this story Anna is experiencing a different nature, that from the
beginning she was compassionate and does whatever it takes Kate but he turned
into an outspoken person and think about his own life.
3.1.1.1 Anna Fitzgerald as daughter
Anna is the last daughter of Sara and Brian, she becomes a kind daughter
in her family, and she becomes an obedient and loving. She loves her family, even
thought she knew that she was born to save Kate’s life, but she still loves her
mother and her sister, the concerning of Anna characterization are:
3.1.1.2. Anna is a loving person
Loving is one of characteristic that a human has, the writer found that
Anna is a loving person in this story, she is a loving her sister and her mother:
a. Anna Love sister
In this case, the writer found that the main character in this story is
good figure or a good person. Even though she still little girl, but her
figure in this story becomes a good figure. Anna has a good property for
every young age. This means that Anna does not like the other children
that sometimes they are more concerned with their own feelings.
Anna becomes a good sister for Kate; she always supports Kate
becomes a good main character in this story. Anna loves her sister so
much. Not only give everything that she has, but also Anna is willing to
leave her dreams. It means that Anna rather Kate’s priority than she goes
to Minnesota to enjoy her being a winner there; it can be seen from
quotation below:
I crouch down next to her. "There is nothing, believe me, I'd rather make you do less. But if you don't, Anna, then one day, you're going to wish you had." Belligerent, Anna walks into Kate's room, climbs onto a chair. Kate's chest rises and falls, the work of the respirator. All the fight goes out of Anna as she reaches out to touch her sister's cheek. "Can she hear me? "Absolutely," I answer, more for myself than for her."I won't go to Minnesota," Anna whispers. "I won't ever go anywhere." She leans close. "Wake up, Kate." (Picoult 240).
Based on the quotation above, it shows that Anna is still young, but she
can take right choice. She rather keeps Kate in the hospital than going to
Minnesota to enjoy her win. It means that the writer concludes that Anna is not
like the other teenager normally, they rather think of their pleasure than think
about the other people who are besides them.
The next discussion, Anna is a helper for Kate. It means that she always
gives everything she has; it is true based on the quotation below:
This means that Anna is candid person. She does everything without
burden or request repayment for all everything she gave. All of it because she
very loves Kate and Anna wants to see Kate can be healthy:
I dried whatever he handed me, and we both tried to pretend we didn’t know the truth: that in addition to the peace of me that’s always wanted Kate to alive.” (Picoult 314).
Jesse is wrong; I didn’t come to see Kate because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it is hard to remember who I am. (Picoult 138).
Those sentences show that Anna really loves her sister Kate. Anna always
is there whatever and whenever Kate needs her or just about to make her enjoy
and laugh together. It means that Anna can make Kate feel comfortable, it is
referred from the conversation below:
You guys do prom hairstyles? Sure, the stylist says. Like an updo?
Yeah. For my sister. Anna looks at Kate, who has stopped fighting. A smile glows slowly across her face, like a firefly caught in a jelly jar.
That's right. For me, Kate says mischievously, and she unwinds the scarf from her bald head… at that, my daughters collapse into each other’s arms, hysterical. They laugh until they cannot catch their breath. They laugh until they cry. (Picoult 318).
From the quotation above, it shows that Anna can make Kate, comfortable
and she can make Kate smile, they laugh together, and happy. Based on the all
explanations above, the writer concludes that Anna in this story is a good sister to
her sister, she becomes a right sister for Kate because she has characteristic like:
b. Anna Love mother
When she faced a big problem of her life, at that time her mother
does not care all about Anna, and when she hurt her feeling by her mother,
she still loves her mother so much. It is true from the quotation below:
Brian sticks his head in to Kate’s room “Sara”. He says exhausted. Anna is asking for you.’’
But I can’t be in two places at one time. I hold the pink emesis basin up to Kate’s mouth as she vomits again. Besides me Donna helps lower Kate back onto her pillow. “I am a little busy right now” I say,” (Picoult 210).
At that time, Anna really illness, because the effect of operations.
She does it, because she wants to save Kate, at that time she very needs her
mother, she always called her mother. After that, Brian is going to Kate’s
rooms, Brian meets Sara. Brian said to Sara that Anna asks her, but at the
time Sara was very busy to keep two her daughters at one time, and she
rather to safeguard Kate, who is sleeping than Anna, who is feeling hurt
from the effects of operations.
Even though Anna often feels hurt by her mother, and sometimes
Anna feels that she called if Sara needs something for her, but Anna
always loves her mother so much:
She looks down, so that her hair covers her face. "They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate is sick." (Picoult 13).
Campbell said: Your mother told me you want to drop the lawsuit. He says. Did she lie to me?
"No." I swallow hard.
There are a thousand answers for that; I choose the easy one. "Because I love her," I say, and the tears come all over again. "I'm sorry. I'm really sorry." (Picoult 76).
Based on the conversation above, it shows that Anna loves her mother.
She never cares whatever her mother doing to her. Even though her mother
always makes Anna feel hurt, she still and will love her mother. Anna will do
anything to make her mother happy and give whatever she has, obedient to
everything her mother instruct to her.
3.1.2. Sarah
An antagonist is a character or a group of characters which stand in
opposition to the protagonist or the main character. Another definition states that
the antagonist is in direct conflict with the main character in a story, or the
protagonist, because the protagonist has been in conflict with the antagonist
(Gillespie 23).
Based on the explanation above, the writer concludes that Sara is an
antagonist in this story; because she is the one who have conflicts with the main
character, and she is the one which of the problems occur in this story.
3.1.2.1. Sara as a mother
In this story Sara is a mother for Kate, Jesse and Anna. Actually, her
profession as a lawyer, but she stopped being a lawyer when she knows that Kate
has Leukemia disease. She is a housewife because she wants to focus to care of
does not care about the feelings of the other children, like Jesse and Anna. It refers
to based on the quotation below:
Well, I don't need to tell you that eleven-year-old budding derelicts and house rules are like oil and water. By the end of my First week with this board I thought I'd rather slide down a razor blade into alcohol than tool up and down the sidewalk yet one more time with all the toddlers on their Big Wheels. (Picoult 219).
Based on the quotations above, it shows that Jess is beginning to naughty.
He was brave to drink alcohol, and also he was brave to smoke, it refers from the
quotation below:
First I take off my shirt and dunk it into a puddle on the side of the road; then wrap it around my head and face. The smoke is already billowing, angry black clouds. In the hollow of my ear is the sound of sirens. (Picoult 224).
Jesse feels that her mother is does not care and give her attention to him.
So that's why he was brave to do it, like drink the alcohol and smoke. Not only
that, but also Jesse is to be a different character, it can be seen from the quotation
below:
He thinks twice, then steps back to let me enter. The room is a sea of dirty clothes and magazines and leftover Chinese takeout cartons; it smells like the sweaty tongue of a hockey skate. The only neat spot is the shelf where Jesse keeps his special collection--a Jaguar's silver mascot, a Mercedes symbol, a Mustang's horse--hood ornaments that he told me he just found lying around, although I'm not dumb enough to believe him. (Picoult 7).
Based on the quotation above, it shows that Jesse has never been cared by
Sara, it can be seen from Jess act, he was brave to drink alcohol and smoke, and
the Jess does not care about what happened in his room, his room is dirty, it
The next is Anna. She feels lack out, it refers from the quotation below:
In our living room we have a whole shelf devoted to the visual history of our family, there is Kate with hair and Kate all bald, one of Kate as a baby sitting on Jesse’s lap. One of my mothers holding each of them on the edge of a poll. There are pictures of me too, but not many, I go from infant to about ten years in one fell swoop. Maybe it is because I was the third, and they were sick and tired of keeping a catalog of life. Maybe it is because they forgot, (Picoult 130).
Based on the quotation above, it shows that Anna feels left out, she needs
more attention by her mother. So that makes she feels alone in his family.
Nevertheless, Sara is kind to her family and her daughter. Her struggle to keep
Kate alive. She never gives up, and she believes that Kate will be healthy. She is
self confident about Kate’s cures. Sara has characterizations such as the
following:
3.1.2.2 Sara is a self-confident person
Self confidence is someone who confidence in herself or her own abilities
(Merriam 12). According to this explanation the writer found that Sara’s
characteristic is self confident; self confidence in this case shows that Sara
struggles to make Kate alive. Sara is sure that Kate will be healthy, even though
that is impossible, because at that time the conditions of Kate is down, Kate feel
that she will die slowly. It refers to the conversation below:
"Mom?" Jesse asks, "is that where Kate will go?" The question, just as innocent as any of the others Jesse would ask, makes my legs go weak. I pull the car over and put on my hazard lights. Then I unbuckle my seat belt and turn around.
Based on the conversation above, it shows that Sara believes that Kate will
healthy, and she also self confident that Kate will stay with her forever, even
though it is difficult and impossible to see Kate healthy, because at that time the
doctor said that the person who has leukemia will die slowly. Sara is sure that it is
wrong and said to Jesse that Kate is with us. It shows that Sara is a self confident
woman.
3.1.2.3. Sara is an egoist person
Egoist is a person who is preoccupied with his or her own interest: a
selfish person (Webster 23). Sara is an egoist person in this story because she
never thinks about the other feeling her daughter Anna and her son, Jesse. It can
be seen from quotation below :
"This is Jesse, all over again,"
my mother adds. "She's doing it for the attention." I can feel her looking down at me, like I'm some kind of creature she's never seen before. "Maybe we need to take her
somewhere, alone. Go to a movie, or shopping, so she doesn't feel left out. Make her see that she doesn't have to do something crazy to get us to notice her. What do you think?"
My father takes his time answering. "Well," he says quietly, "maybe this isn't crazy." You know how silence can push in at your eardrums in the dark, make you deaf? That's what happens, so that I almost miss
my mother's answer. "For God's sake, Brian. whose side are you on?" And my father: "Who said there were sides?" But even I could answer that for him. There are always sides. There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.
Based on the quotation above, it can be seen that Sara is an egoist person;
shopping, or watching the movie in the mall. In fact Anna does not need all of it.
She only wants her mother to understand about her desire and feeling. It is so
different from Brian behaviors. In this case, Brian is the only person that cares and
loves Anna, he told supports Anna, it can be seen from dialogue above, when Sara
told him that Anna has a crazy thought, but Brian’s answers that she is not crazy.
The one reason Brian does not agree with Sara because he knows that her wife is
an egoist and does not care about Anna’s life.
3.1.3. Brian
Brian is a husband of Sara, and he is a father of Jesse, Kate and Anna. His
profession is a fire fighter. Even though he lives at the firehouse a lot and called
away often, but he never let his family. He loves his family.
3.1.3. Brian as a father
Brian struggles to keep peace between Kate and Anna. At some moments,
Brian as mediator when Anna and Sara’s conflict happened, but Brian rather
supports what Anna wants than to hear what Sara said, because Brian knows that
Sara is an egoist woman. Brian cares all of her daughter Kate and Anna, and also
Brian cares and gives his attention and he loves fairly with them.
The concerning Brian’s personality, he is a loving, and also wise. To
3.1.3.2. Brian is a wise person
Brian not only becomes a loving father for her daughter Kate and Anna,
but also he is wise for all the moments. He tries to search the way out of the
problems in his family. It can be seen from on the quotation below :
"The arsonist?" she asks.
"Doubt it. He goes for empty buildings and this one had a kid in it."
"Who you saved," Anna guesses.
"You bet." He glances at me. "I thought I'd take Julia up to the hospital. Want to come?" She looks down at her bowl. "I don't know."
"Hey." Brian lifts her chin. "No one's going to keep you from seeing Kate."
"No one's going to be too thrilled to see me there, either," she says, (Picoult 137).
This means that Brian is wise man, he knows where is right or wrong, so
that Brian always in Anna’s sides. When Anna has problems with her mother and
she does not want to donate her kidneys for Kate. At that time Anna wants to
know of Kate’s conditions, but she afraid to meet Sara. So, that why Brian said
that “no one going to keep you from seeing Kate” to Anna.
Based on the all the explanation of character and characterizations of
Brian, the writer concludes that Brian has good personality; it proof by his acts to
his entire daughter and son and also his wife. Brian is mediator if the problems
appear in his family. Brian is a lover and wise for his wife, daughters and of
3.1.4. Alexander Campbell
Campbell is an intelligent man. He is a person who helps Anna, because
he is sympathy with Anna’s problems. Campbell is regarding Anna such a real his
daughter. He is kind and also become a friend of Anna. He is a lawyer of this
story. Campbell has nature like :
3.1.4.1. Kind
When Anna has a problems with her mother, Anna did not want to donate
their kidneys on Kate, but his mother kept forcing her to donate their kidneys on
Kate, ever since Anna wants to get rights to herself, and then she went to see a
lawyer named Alexander Campbell.
She needs a lawyer to accompany her. Anna is coming in the Campbell
office, she introduces herself to Campbell, and she said that she needs help from
Campbell to get a medical emancipation. At that time Campbell knew about Anna
and her problems. It refers from quotation below:
The girl sitting across from me waits for an answer, one I'm deliberately withholding. She says she wants to sue her parents, like every other teenager on the planet. But she wants to sue for the rights to her own body. It is exactly the kind of case I avoid like the Black Plague--one which requires far too much effort and client baby-sitting. With a sigh, I get up. "What did you say your name was?"
"I didn't." She sits a little straighter. "It's Anna Fitzgerald." I open the door and bellow for my secretary. "Kerri! Can you get the Planned Parenthood number for Ms. Fitzgerald?"
"What?" When I turn around, the kid is standing."Planned Parenthood?"
It mean that Campbell was refused of Anna problem, Campbell instructs
Anna that she save her money, and go out from Campbell office, but at that time
Anna still continue to talk about her problems to Campbell:
For the first time since I've entered my office, I really, truly look at her. Anger glows around this kid like electricity. "My sister is dying, and my mother wants me to donate one of my kidneys to her. (Picoult 12).
Actually heard those sentences, Campbell has sympathized Anna, but his
expression was usual, and he said to Anna :
“Obviously, you've agreed to be a donor for your sister before." (Picoult 13).
"Fine, then. You can polish my doorknobs." It's not that I'm a particularly charitable man, but rather that legally, this case is a lock: she doesn't want to give a kidney; no court in its right mind would force her to give up a kidney; I don't have to do any legal research; the parents will cave in before we go to trial, and that will be that. I lie to her.(Picoult 15).
Campbell explains to Anna that her case is locked and illegal. Based on the
quotation above it shows that Campbell is a kind man. He does not need money;
even though he begins care to Anna, but he rather lie than Anna and her mother
relationship will frictions. He must lie to Anna. It is for a goodness of Anna’s life.
As we know now, that a lawyer does not care what problems of their
clients, if they get clients they will receive and ready to accompany them to get
what their desire. It just for money, but looking on this case, it is very different
from the fact, in this story Campbell become a kind lawyer. He does not need
money to continue Anna’s cases, Campbell wants to see Anna and her mother live
But in the end, Campbell is changes. He is willing to help Anna against Anna’s
mother in court to get the rights over Anna.
3.2. Plot
The plot of a story can be described as “what happens to the character” or
as the way of story. The kinds of plot like expositions, complications, climax,
falling action and resolutions will be analysis. It means that the writer will
analyzes one by one of a compositions plot in My Sister Keeper novel. Those are :
3.2.1. Exposition
Based on the sub chapter explain that exposition is how the problems
begin or appears of the story. The exposition this story begins when Kate in the
washroom, the blood is out from her nose, and she was taken to hospital because
she is unconscious, her condition is down. At that time the doctor said that Kate’s
condition is worse. There is a problem had happened to Kate’s kidney, and she
needs a kidney from Anna, because Anna that only one person that can help and
keep Kate’s life.
Kate's dialysis sessions run three times a week, for two hours at a time. She has a Mallukar catheter which looks just like her central line used to look and protrudes from the same spot on her chest.
This gets hooked up to a machine that does the work her kidneys aren't doing. ( Picoult ).
Based on the quotation above, it shows that Kate’s condition is worse, it
makes Sara down. She very loves and cares Kate’s life, as a mother Sara does not
It means that Anna must donor her kidney to make Kate alive and healthy, it true
based on the quotation below :
"My sister is dying, and my mother wants me to donate one of my kidneys to her," (Picoult 12).
From the quotation above, it shows that Sara want Anna to donate her
kidney for save Kate’s life. The writer concludes that the exposition in this story
is happened when Kate diagnose to fail kidney, after that Sara wants Anna donate
her kidney for Kate.
3.2.2. Complications
The complication this story when Anna did not want to be a donor for
Kate anymore. She begins to complain what desires her mother, and she prefers to
save herself then followed her mother’s instructed. It is true based on the
quotation below:
Anna? Judge De Salvo prompts, and then he sets that stupid can of Mott's down on the table between us and I burst into tears. "I can't give a kidney to my sister. I just can't.” (Picoult 75).
Anna initially obeyed all her mother’s wants, and donates whatever Kate needs.
Now she began to complain and think about her own life as how she will live with one
kidney and her dream of becoming an athlete will not be realized if her life with one
kidney.
Meanwhile, the reason why Anna claims her mother are: the first because
she feels that she did not exist in front of her family, her mother always focuses
second reasons because she feels that her mother does not care about her, and her
mother is compelling to her. It is true based on the conversation below:
Julia: Did you tell your parents you don't want to donate a kidney? Anna: "They don't listen to me." Julia: "They might, if you mentioned this." She looks down, so that
her hair covers her face.
Anna: "They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick" (Jodie Picoult 13).
Based on the conversation above, the writer concludes that Anna’s feeling
her mother never give her attentions to her. The third because she think her life
with one kidney, and also about her dreams become a cheerleader and atilt, but
besides that she also think about Kate’s life, if she did not donor her kidney of
course she will see Kate die. From explanation above, the writer concludes that
the reasons why Anna does not want as donor is sensible.
Based on the explanation above, the complications of this story when
Anna does not wants to donate to her sister anymore. She does not want to give
her kidneys because she begins to think about her dreams and her life in future.
3.2.3. Climax
At that time, Sara knew that Anna does not give her kidney to save Kate,
Sara forced Anna that she must give her a kidney, no reason to refuse that. Sara
just thinks about Kate, never think about Anna. It refers to from the conversation
below :
Did you tell your parents you don't want to donate a kidney?" "They don't listen to me."
She looks down, so that her hair covers her face. "They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick. (Picoult 14).
Based on the conversation above, it show that actually Anna has said to
Sara that she cannot give her kidney for Kate, but Sara never care about Anna’s
decision. She still force to Anna that she must give her kidney to save Kate’s life.
It makes Anna take strip law to get on her own right body, she sue her mother in
the court to get a medical emancipation for her own body, she rent a lawyer to
save her own body. She goes to Alexander Campbell office, she asks help
Campbell and sue her mother in the court, it refers from the quotation below:
The girl sitting across from me waits for an answer, one I'm deliberately with holding. She says she wants to sue her parents, like every other teenager on the planet. But she wants to sue for the rights to her own body. It is exactly the kind of case I avoid like the Black Plague--one which requires far too much effort and client baby-sitting. (Jodie Picoult 14)
When Sara was in hospital, she met with her friends. At the time her
friends telling her that Sara’s family becomes issue in the new paper, her friends
give a document to Sara, suddenly Sara very shocked. She knows that Anna did
time the principal sent home a disciplinary notice because I drew a sketch of Mrs. Toohey and her colossal butt in the margin of my math textbook. No, actually, scratch that--it's a million times worse. That she gets to make all future medical decisions. That she not be forced to submit to medical treatment which is not in her best interests or for her benefit. That she not be required to undergo any more treatment for the benefit of her sister, Kate. My mother lifts her face to mine. "Anna," she whispers, what the hell is this?
Anna: It feels like a fist in my gut, now that it's here and happening. I shake my head. What can I possibly tell her?
Anna! She takes a step toward me. (Picoult 41-42).
Based on the quotation above, it shows that Sara so surprise when she
knows that Anna sue hers in the court. Anna wants to feel a freedom in her own
body to get a medical emancipation; it is sure makes Sara more shocks. Actually
the reason why Anna claims her mother because she has instructed by her sister
Kate, at the court Anna telling to everyone the reason why she does not give her
kidney because Kate did not want to like that. It is true based on the quotation
below:
"Look here ..." I said, brandishing it and walking back into the bedroom, thinking I had a great little wedge of blackmail to use to my advantage for a while, and then I saw Kate holding the pills. "What are you doing?"
Kate rolled over. "Leave me alone, Anna." "Are you crazy?"
"No," Kate said. "I'm just sick of waiting for something that's going to happen anyway. I think I've fucked up everyone's life long enough, don't you?"
"But everyone's worked so hard just to keep you alive. You can't kill yourself." (Picoult 342).
Based on the quotation above, it show that Actually Anna will want
something that going to happen it means that she know she will die slowly and
she sure about that. Kate said that she did not want Anna to donate her kidney to
her. It refers to based on the quotations below:
The next time it came up was after my mother came into our room to talk about donating a kidney.
"Don't do it," Kate said, when they were gone.
I glanced at her. "What are you talking about? Of course I'm going to do it.
"Do you think it would work?" I asked. "A kidney transplant?" Kate looked at me. "It might." She leaned over, her hand on the light switch. "Don't do it," she repeated, and it wasn't until I heard her a second time that I understood what she was really saying.
My mother is a breath away from me, and in her eyes are all the mistakes she's ever made. My father comes up and puts his arm around her shoulders. "Come sit down," he whispers into her hair.(Picoult 345).
Based on the quotations above, it shows that Anna wants donate her
kidney actually, but Kate does not want like that. Of course that statement makes
Sara was surprise hear all of statements Anna. Sara said that Anna is
misunderstood about that and perhaps Kate is in a bad day said talking like that. It
is refers to based on the quotation below :
My mother gets up slowly. "It's not true," she says, her voice stretched thin as glass. "Anna, I don't know why you'd say that." My eyes fill up. "Why would I make it up?"
