The heart breaking novel "My Sister's Keeper," by Jodi Picoult, tells of a family containing a teenage daughter Kate who was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia at the age of two, she is now sixteen. Through this novel the different perspectives and feelings of Kate's family members are shared and we are able to feel as they do and struggle alongside them. From this novel I learnt that we are all capable of overcoming our own obstacles in life whatever they may be. Kate's mother Sara is furious by the fact that Kate has to suffer every day and she cannot do anything as a mother to lessen that pain for her. Kate has to experience cancer, she didn't choose to and she knows that this isn't fair, but that's life. Many people throughout the world know someone or struggle themselves with the burden of cancer. "It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get." I learnt from this that life isn't perfect and no matter how much you want something things can't always go your way. .
As a mother you would do anything to save your child and I feel that Sara closes herself off in a way to cope with the fact that she can't save Kate. Sara tries so hard to do what is best for Kate that she forgets what Kate truly needs, she becomes consumed with trying to get Kate better that she loses sight of the rest of her family and their needs. I understand that not everyone can continue to live just because you want them too. I know that the pain felt when you lose someone you love is unbearable and it seems as though you will never be able to let go or move on but Picoult helped me to understand that we are all capable of managing what life throws our way. "The human capacity for burden is like bamboo-far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance." I know that all humans are capable of managing affliction and that the trials and difficulties we face make us the people we are today, this gave me an appreciation for the struggles that I have faced in life and am yet to face.