tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218960145091287229.post1495036025692231910..comments2013-08-12T07:15:07.228-05:00Comments on Pages of the Mind: My SIster's Keeper Q&AStacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469305047612339334noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218960145091287229.post-74715754788291166322009-04-30T18:17:00.000-05:002009-04-30T18:17:00.000-05:00Of course your "suppose" to answer the questions!!...Of course your "suppose" to answer the questions!! We want everyone to feel free to comment on anything and everything!! Also check the website and let me know what ya think?United Cakedomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01541032460065809836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218960145091287229.post-27319681552110087102009-04-30T10:15:00.000-05:002009-04-30T10:15:00.000-05:00Ok not sure if I am suppose to answer these, but I...Ok not sure if I am suppose to answer these, but I really wanted to……<br />1. Reread the prologue to My Sister's Keeper. Who is the speaker? Is it the same person you thought it was the first time you read it? <br /><br />I also do not have the book anymore! CRAP!!<br /><br />2. What is the metaphorical relevance of Brian's profession as a fire chief?<br /><br />Brians job is to save lives, and yet he can’t save the most important life, his daughter…I think he actually said that in the book. <br /><br />3. Why is Jesse's behavior so aberrant, while until now, Anna has been so compliant?<br /><br />I think it is his way of getting attention. He feels like his life does not matter to his parents, that is why he is doing destructive things with his life. As with setting fires, that is something very controllable and that he has complete power of. <br /><br />4. What might be a possible reason for Brian's fascination with astronomy?<br /><br />Something mystical and something that no one else knows about. He also seems very intrigued with the stories, almost like he believes that there is a story everywhere. Everything has a purpose and a story. <br /><br />5. On page 98, Kate is being admitted to the hospital in very serious condition. She mouths to Jesse, "tell Anna," but is unable to finish. What do you think she was trying to say?<br /><br />I also agree to tell Anna not to give up and continue. It made more sense about the “plan” after I was done with the book, but I also thought from the beginning that Kate was for the plan. I just thought that it was Annas idea and that Kate agreed. <br /><br />6. On page 122, Julia says, "Even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." Who understood better how to "help" Kate, Sara or Anna?<br /><br />I agree with Lisa, Definantly Anna. Sara was definite mother mode where she is trying to save her children. Who wouldn’t??<br /><br />7. Did Anna do the right thing, honoring Kate's wishes?<br /><br />I believe so also. We all have a wish for how our life should be spent, and then ended. I think they both knew where Kates life was heading, and Anna did the right thing by honoring her. <br /><br />8. Do you feel it was unfair of Kate to ask Anna to refuse to donate a kidney, even though this seemed to be the only way for her to avoid the lifesaving transplant?<br /><br />While I agree with Lisa and think that it is cruel and unusual punishment to put your sister in that kind of predicament, and I don’t know if I could do it for my sister, but at the same time if that was happening to me, Kate went through a lot, and I would want it to be over. I would try and respect my sister for that.<br /><br />9. On page 142, Brian says that when rescuing someone from a fire, that "the safety of the rescuer is of a higher priority than the safety of the victim. Always." How does this apply to his role in his own family?<br /><br />Exactly as Lisa and Janet said.<br /><br />10. On page 144, Brian says, "Like anything that's been confined, fire has a natural instinct to escape." How does this truth apply to Kate? to Brian himself?<br /><br />I think as humans we are always searching ways to escape. We want to escape something in our lives, (debt, to strive to do something bigger in life…) and so I think we are always trying to escape something. Kate is trying to escape that stigma of being sick…as in when they were playing football and Jesse and tackled her and he said he forgot, and Kate was elated…because he forgot. He didn’t have her in “that sick person stigma”. Brian was trying to escape the emotional rollercoaster of his families hurt and pain and of course Kate’s “possible” future of dying and now with Anna. He just wanted to “live”.<br /><br />11. On page 149, Brian is talking to Julia about astronomy and says, "Dark matter has a gravitational effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction." How is this symbolic of Kate's illness?<br /><br />Yes, Misery loves company and it always seems when there is something “dark” whether it be death, or the after affect of death, a sickness, or whatever “dark” it seems like things start to revolve around that….as in how the family revolved around kater and her illness. <br /><br />12. For what reason(s) did Brian offer Anna a place to stay at the firehouse while the legal proceedings were underway?<br /><br />Just to be there for his daughter and help and be with her. .<br /><br />13. How does Anna's decision to pursue medical emancipation parallel Campbell's decision to end his relationship with Julia after his accident?<br /><br />Each of them wants to do what they think is best for the one they love (quoting Janet, couldn’t have said it any better).<br /><br /><br />14. Do you agree with Brian's decision not to turn Jesse in to the authorities for setting the fires?<br /><br />Yes. There was a connection and an understanding between that sometimes doesn’t need anything more. <br /><br />15. Do you feel that it's ethical to conceive a child that meets specific genetic requirements? If not, do you believe that there should be specific exceptions, such as the purpose of saving another person's life, or is this just a "slippery slope?"<br /><br />Its true. WHERE does it stop. Now it could be to help a child. Next it is to stop a gene for, let’s just say cancer, next it’s a gene for obesity, next it’s for being too tall, seriously. When will it stop? We ALL have something that in our life is “not going” for us somewhere, somehow. Like a family history of cancer or obesity or being too tall will give us a shorter life. I don’t know if I could do what Sara and Brian did. While I would never point fingers and criticize people, because I did things people frown upon to have kids in the first place, I just would never do what they did. End of story.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08976955352947422408noreply@blogger.com