User:Alisonwonderland/Draft of My Sister's Keeper

Plot Summary
Anna is assigned a guardian ad litem, Julia, whose job is to help relate to Anna, and make a recomendation to the court... Anna mentions her sister's attempted suicide, and how Kate wants Anna to decline a kidney transplant. After the court visit to Kate's hospital room, Anna is declared medically emancipated. On the way to the hospital, after dealing with the details, Anna and Campbell get into car accident. Brian Fiztergerald, the captain of the firehouse and Anna’s father, climbs through the wreckage of the crushed car and to find Anna splayed across the seat. She is rushed to the hospital with a faint pulse. After what seems like an eternity to Campbell, Sara, and Brian Fitzergerald, a doctor comes out to inform them that Anna is braindead. She suffered a fatal closed head injury during the wreck.

Moments after this life-altering news is delivered, Campbell takes action. He tells the doctor that he has the "power of attorney" for Anna, and that there "is a girl upstairs who needs that kidney". Kate is prepped for surgery, and Anna's kidney is successfully transplanted. At first, her body seems to reject the new kidney, until slowly the signs of recovery begin to show. The final monologue of My Sister's Keeper is Kate's first. It has been eight years since her last relapse, and she comes to understand that "someone had to go, and Anna took my place".

Film adaptation
My Sister's Keeper went from a bestselling novel to a movie released on June 26, 2009. The movie is said to show the "[exploitation of] the grave illness of a lucky, lively, blameless girl from start to finish." Directed by Nick Cassavetes and Jeremy Leven, the film manipulates or discards the novel's multiple plots lines. Jodi Picoult endsMy Sister's Keeper with a twist, while the film omits Picoult's original ending. Whereas some of these changes still manage to be "quietly insightful," the movie is "ultimately too soft, too easy, and dissolves like a tear-soaked tissue."

Reception
My Sister's Keeper is Picoult's "11th novel since 1992." The ideas of "the American thing: hiring a lawyer and suing her parents," along with the ongoing "soap opera" drama, states controversial themes within the story.