My Sister Keeper

Title of Book : My Sister Keeper (Penyelamat Kakakku)

Author : Jodi Picoult

Publisher : PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama

Translator : Hetih Rusli

Pages : 528 pages

Length : 20 cm

My Sister Keeper is a book that tells a story about Anna who always helps her youngest sister, Kate, alive. Kate contract leukemia since she was a little kid. Their mother had planned to give a birth Anna is for saving her daughter, Kate. Anna must always stay near her sister because only Anna who can help her. And one day Kate is really sick and she last chance is get a new kidney and it only can be given by Anna. Since she was a kid, Anna feel that she has no freedom of her body, it always her mother who decide whether Anna agree or not. But now, Anna realizes that she wants her right of her body and she will not give her kidney to her sister. And this is making her mother angry. This decision also makes the family become separated and consequences fatal. Until she win the court. Her mother finally realizes that she has to respect of Anna’s decision, she also realizes that she less pay attention to Anna, so maybe this is Anna’s way to get her attention.

So they go back to the hospital where Kate has been hospitalized after the court. They want to be there in the last moment with Kate. Anna and his lawyer will follow after they finish their business in the court. Suddenly, in the way to the hospital the car the car which brings Anna got an accident. In the hospital, Anna passed away, and the lawyer who has the right of Anna’s body gives the kidney to Kate.

Kate then can continue her life well because of Anna’s kidney. The family really lost Anna. They feel guilty to Anna for what they did when Anna still alive. And Kate really regret for what she asked to Anna. She asked her to do not give her kidney, because she sick of this medical treatment which never ends. Anna do not want to do that, she will give everything she can for her sister because she loves Kate. But she also can not refuse what Kate asked. So she found a way by seeing a lawyer. And now, Kate takes Anna everywhere she go in her body.

In my idea, this book seems like a real story that very dramatic and sad with unexpectedly ending. The wording that the author uses just like the authors use, but the way she tells the story is different. She tells the story in many points of view of the characters, and every chapter is one character’s points of view. So I can know what all characters thinking and feeling too. I think it is a challenge for me too, because I have to think fast when turn the page, as if I become a different character in a second. And I can not guess what kind of ending it is, how the ending it is. Until I read the last word in this novel. The novel is very touchy so I often cry when reading this novel. I just imagine how hard Anna’s life, but then I understand when I read Anna’s mother part. I think to write kind of this novel is not easy because sometimes we can just tell the story from one character’s point of view. So, I really love this novel from the wording, the way the author write this and the most important is the unexpectedly story.

College assignment in 2008 (ABS)