You Don't Love Someone Because They're Perfect, You Love Them In Spite Of The Fact That They're Not.
-Jodi Picoult
Hospital
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A vast majority of the book is set in the hospital.
Brian & Sara Fitzgerald are visiting their daughter Kate Fitzgerald in hospital when Brian, who is a fireman by profession, is called out to a serious motor accident at a dangerous set of traffic lights, what he finds is his youngest daughter pretty much dead, he has her rushed to hospital, when he gets their Sara & his only son Jesse are there waiting to hear about what happened, after waiting a little a doctor tells them that their daughter Anna is brain dead. shortly after the driver of the vehicle Campbell Alexander arrives with his girlfriend Julia and is also devastated by the catastrophy and allows the doctor to take one of Anna's kidneys and give it to Kate Fitzgerald. Kate Fitzgerald is diagnosed with 'Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia' at the age of two and battles with it until the age of 16. her sister Anna is a blood match and the also the best form of salvation that Kate has if she wishes to keep living. Anna has just won her legal case for medical emancipation and has to stay behing with her lawyer Campbell Alexander to sign the necessary papers and sh agrees to meet up with her parents when she is finished and her parents go on ahead to the hospital. On her way to the hospital Anna is involved in a very serious motor accident and is killed. this is the development of the book's major twist as it was totally unexpected because you read the majority of the book hoping Anna will gain medical emancipation, when she does you are happy and then bam! she's dead. |
Campbell Alexander
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The Campbell Alexander law Firm is where we are first introduced to Anna's lawyer Campbell Alexander.
Anna get's a ride to the law firm from her brother Jesse Fitzgerald, she waits in Campbell's office for him to arrive and when he does she tells him that she wants to sue her parents for the rights to her own body. Campbell mistakes Anna's request for medical emancipation for sexual activity and she is vary angry with him for this, "My sister is dying, and my mother wants me to donate one of my kidneys to her," "somehow I don't think a handful of free condoms is going to take care of that" these direct quotes from the book explains her anger at him. this is significant because this lawsuit for medical emancipation is a constant vocal point in the text and it is the catalyst for the separation of the Fitzgerald family. throughout the book the lawsuits consequences chop and change and eventually when Anna's parents realise that she is doing it for her sister Kate Fitzgerald they understand and accept Anna fully again. |
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The firestation is Brian's office and it's where he goes to get away from his dramas at his home. When things get tense between Anna and her mother Sara, Brian invites her to bunk with him at the station where Brian realises that his daughter needs space. This is also where Brian confesses that Anna's right to her lawyer Campbell Alexander.
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Fitzgerald Household |
The Fitzgerald house is obviously where Sara, Brian, Anna, Kate and Jesse live. this is the scene for many of Kate's memories from when she wasn't sick like when she was tackled by Jesse in the back yard, when she argued and played with Anna. It sets the scene for the major tension between Anna and her Mother Sara.
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you could say how these places make things happening theyre better or worse example, annas mum receiving law papers in the hospital by kates bed, makes it even clearer what anna is doing to kate.
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