Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

RESEARCH


Author:
Jodi Picoult


Key Questions:
1) What issues stand out in Jodi Picoult’s novels?
2) What are some techniques that help Jodi Picoult     express these issues?            
3) Why did Jodi Picoult write about these issues?


Title of Work Selected:
1) My Sister’s Keeper
2) Nineteen Minutes
3) The Pact
4) Keeping Faith
5) Vanishing Acts
6) Harvesting the Heart
7) Mercy





Maryam Sadiq
12KW
NR
My Sister’s Keeper
Published by: Allen and Unwin, 2005

Issues:
Being a good parent
Being a good sister
Being a good person
Should you follow your own heart or let others lead you?
Do parents love all their children equally?
Difference between what’s legal and what’s moral
Siblinghood/sisterhood
The moral, practical and emotional complications of putting one human being in pain or in danger for the well being of another
Bioethics-like stem cell research or genetically manipulated offspring

Supporting Details:
“For the first time in my life I began to understand how a parent might hit a child-its because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn’t”
“No parent is that careless”
“Sometimes she’s great. And other times I wish she’d never been born”
“See my sisters the one who’s always had to imagine life without me”
“This lawsuit has never been about Anna wanting her sister to die, but simply that she wants a chance to live”
“Your Honour, all of Anna Fitzgerald’s life she has been medically treated for her sisters good, not her own. No one doubts Sara Fitzgerald’s love for all her children, or the decisions she’s made that have prolonged Kate’s life. But today we have to doubt the decisions she’s made for this child”
“We’re here today because there’s a difference in our system of justice between what’s legal and what’s moral”
“People seem to think that we are trying to make a designer...