{Post B Week 6}

As I read further and further into My Sister’s Keeper, I feel like I’m really starting to understand better how the family functions. The whole dynamic of the Fitzgerald family really intrigues me. There is the mother, Sara who gave up her high-powered career as a lawyer in order to raise her family. Sara’s idea of an ideal family was just two kids, with a small possibility to expand on the brood. There are some moments where it is clear that Sara misses they way things were when she had a normal 9-5 job, unlike the 24/7 one that parenting requires. Her husband Brian wanted to be a firefighter to save lives and when he is telling this to the reader, it seems like it is his journal and life story. The thing that he says he ‘forgot’ when he dreamed up his firefighting career was who specifically he wanted to save. Brian was perfectly happy with two children and seemed reluctant to add a member to their family. This is ironic, because that third child that he did not really know that he wanted is the one that only he really pays attention to or notices if something is wrong. I just found out that Jesse, the oldest son is an actual pyromaniac. He lights vacant buildings on fire, and enjoys watching them burn to the ground while the sounds of the fire truck’s sirens ring in the background. Jesse is also into drugs and alcohol, which is perhaps his way to escape the reality of his hurting family. What is weird is that even though this whole book is about Anna and her sister that she is electively no longer wanting to keep alive, little is known about Kate aside from her potentially fatal medical condition. With the Fitzgerald family, there is an elephant in the room that nobody wants to acknowledge but that they all know is there. The leukemia is tearing the family apart, putting each on a different path for the rest of their lives.