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Summary:

This week Brian has taken Jesse to the hospital to get his blood drawn which is supposed to be a simple procedure with a stick in the finger. He needed to be restrained by two guys and Brian. The purpose of the blood being drawn was to see if he matches Kate's blood type and can help donate the blood to her to help her with her luekemia. Unfortunately he wasnt a match for her so she would have to wait until there was someone else willing to donate that fit the type. There was a wilted plant sitting at the window sill and it was as if it reflected Kate and how she was slowly dying if she didnt get help fast enough. Kate's mom was obviously devasted and thought that the doctors were treating her like some type of machine. Later in the book Campbell had to go to court so they can file custody for him. he was either with his mother or his father. He really didnt want to go but he said he knew he had to. I didnt read far enough to get the end results.

Quotations:

" We all need to cool off a little." " I have one child who's just signed her sister's death sentence, and I'm supposed to cool off?" [ Picoult 91 ]

- What I like the most about this quote is the way it was worded. It made the book seem so real. i could actually connect to it. It like painted and image in my head of the anger she was feeling and maybe the tears. I could some what feel her pain and relate, but sadly this is just a fiction story.

Reaction:

My reaction to this weeks reading was that it was sweet. I felt like I read this section of the book at a perfect week . The book seems so real to me. Even tho its a book it just always seems to bother me even from the time i started reading the book was how Kate had gotten Leukemia. It said she got it at birth but that still doesn't explain much for me. I think its sad i would never want to lose my brother to something like that. I rather it be other circumstances that's why i think the narrator of the book which is Kate's mom is very strong about this whole thing.