Reading+Reflections

I can't believe that Anna is only 13 years old. I couldn't imagine knowing everything she does about her sister and her disease. I feel bad for Kate having acute promyelotic leukemia as a 16 year old must be hard. I give Anna allot of credit for donating so much to her sister. I think that the mom puts too much stress on Anna and i feel like she forgets that she is only 13. I thought that Anna selling her necklace was sweet of her because you can tell she wants to help. The mom shouldn't be more concerned about Anna, she always takes her for granted and now she wants to use her kidney. I can see why and how Anna feels ignored, i would feel the same way too. In Anna's support i think that it was right for her to try and get papers saying that she is in control of her own body. Posted Sep 26, 2009 5:19 pm

I think it is really sad that Anna thinks about her funeral. No one should feel like no one will come. You can tell that she is jealous of her sister getting all the attention. Anna seems like she is really serious about getting the papers for herself. Julia seems like she will be a big help to Anna in court as her guardian. I think that Anna should go through with the case because its her body and her mom can't be telling her to give up this and take out that. I felt bad when Anna started to realize that there are not too many pictures of her from when she was little. I felt bad again when Anna was talking about how people are only nice to her because of her sister. Posted Sep 26, 2009 5:19 pm

i feel bad for anna. i think that now that everything is moving along with the judge and the courts she imagines life with out her in it or with out her sister in it more. i think jessie does all the bad things to cope with what goes on at home. even though he is not really in the main story i think that it shows that the parents treat him the same. even though they aren't using is organs... they ignore him and don't give him the right attention that he needs. Posted Oct 3, 2009 10:08 am

i think that the rain is a symbol for something. it keeps coming up. i think all the girls are right. the mom just wants whats best for her kids but at the same time i can see how both the sister want whats best for them selves even thought that might not be possible. Anna has every right to go to court. its her body and she should have a say in what other people do with it. Posted Oct 5, 2009 8:28 pm

I can't believe that is how the book ended. I feel so bad for Brian. I couldn't imagine getting called on to do his job and then realizing who is really in the car. After all she went through i thought she would have died because she didn't have any organs left. I bet the mother really feels terrible now. And as an older sister no matter how she died i would feel like i killed her. Its good that they used her organs. This way they used the organs and didnt have to put her through more surgeries. I guess the mother and father got exactly what they wanted. Posted Oct 14, 2009 9:33 pm

The sea and poison was hard to get into. it took me a very long time to read and it was very hard to follow. the way that the japanese health care is described is very different from what we see every day in our rotations. my favorite character in this book was toda. even thugh he didnt allways make good choices and sort of just got by all the time, i could relate to him in many ways.

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman i just started reading this and i am confused. It starts out talking about houses and what is cheap. Johns brother is a physician and he disagrees with his ideas. He goes into discribing the room he is in and te garden. I am going to guess that he is at some kind f home. H discribes what he can see out of all of his windows.

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman I still do not really understand this story. Iwhy did he lock the door from the children? t is the last day for john now. I dont get why he is saying he got out in spite of him and jane? im confused.