My Sisters Keeper Setting

My Sisters Keeper Setting

Setting
My Sister’s Keeper

"The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" The settings where the entire book takes place is Providence Rhode Island it’s a small town where the author describes the story taking place and the characters developing within it. The Author actually chose this setting because It is a real place and it would let the story seem more realistic (“Providence is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, and one of the first cities established in the United States.”)   The story unfolds in certain places first in the Fitzgerald household where we learn that they are just a normal middleclass family with Kate as the stay at home mom and Bran as the firefighter father. We also learn that they don’t have lots of money because they can’t afford to pay for Kate’s surgeries and Anna and Kate have to share a room we so we learn that they live in a more or less small on average house, we see this when Anna says; “we had a fight and decided we no longer wanted to share a room. Given the size of our house, though, and the fact that Jesse lived in the other spare bedroom, we didn’t have anywhere else to go.”   In the Fitzgerald household there is no mention of god or religion so we don’t know of what religion the family belongs to and it doesn’t play a part in the story. Another setting in the book is Providence Hospital; which is where Kate is diagnosed and has her treatments this is the place which Anna despises the most she says “every time Kate is hospitalized, I wind up there, too.”   And she hates it because it’s her “home away from home”   except it doesn’t make her feel good about being there. I think the reason why she decided to sue her parents and actually send the papers to the hospital instead of their own home is probably a good example of how her family spent most of their time there. The irony in the hospital is that it was the place where she was born and the place...