Character Analysis on 'My Sister's Keeper'

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Character: Sara Fitzgerald Her character had more debilitative actions than facilitative, in my opinion. Her desperate actions towards everyone in her family were simply out of love, mainly for Kate, but because of this, her family almost got destroyed. She neglected her other children and fought with her husband. She has become overprotective towards Kate, not knowing what might happen to others, not considering Anna’s feelings towards being a donor of ‘spare parts’ for Kate, or not even hearing out what Kate herself had in mind. All of these are because she wanted to keep Kate alive despite the fact that it was impossible. In my opinion, this could be considered an extrinsic motivation, because by doing her actions and completing her goals, she believes that she will be able to keep her daughter from dying, which is a factor from the outside. This has become her major goal in life, and everything she did revolved around this certain goal. It was as if it has become her obsession, if the case were to be compared to something not life-and-death. Because of this, her decisions have become blinded by her desperation, leading to chaos in her family, and to everything else. She quit her job, she ignored her children; she even tried to force Anna into a life-changing surgery that the said child was not willing to take. She refused to listen to others; the only thing important to her was keeping Kate alive until at last, she realized she was the only one not letting go just yet.
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