Reflecting on the first Chapter
1. Give a brief explanation on the following based on the first chapter of your novel:
In this story, each chapter is in the perspective of a different person, so there is no real protagonist, there are many of them. In the first chapter, it’s in the perspective of Anna, Kate’s (the girl with leukemia) little sister, only born because her parents wanted to save Kate. It was a perfect sibling match so that Anna could donate her organs and such to Kate whenever Kate needed them.
2. Protagonist (the main character): In the first chapter the main character is Anna Fitzgerald.
3. Antagonist (character in conflict with the protagonist): In the first chapter, it is leukemia or cancer because it is eating away at her sister’s body and all her parents care about is Kate’s health because they are so overwhelmed. Anna’s parents are both antagonists because they make her donate her body parts without permission, and they only had her to save Kate. Kate is also one because
4. Setting – Time: Written in present time for 2004.
5. Setting – Place: The story takes place in her house and at Campbell Alexander’s office in the courthouse.
6. Internal Conflict: The parents are always worrying about Kate and so they basically focus all of their attention on her, and not the other children in the house.
7. External Conflict: Anna is mad at her parents because they make her donate her organs without her consent and so she is filing a case against them in court.
2. Find two quotations from the novel that include examples of imagery (descriptive language that appeals to one of the five senses).
“If Mr. Webster had decided to put the word freak in his dictionary, Anna Fitzgerald would be the best definition he could give. It's more than just the way I look: refugee-skinny with absolutely no chest to speak of, hair the color of dirt, connect-the-dot freckles on my cheeks that, let me tell you, do not fade with lemon juice or sunscreen or even, sadly, sandpaper.”
“He’s got black hair and he’s at least as tall as my dad – six feet – with a right-anglie jaw and eyes that look frozen over.”
3. Copy 4 quotes (could be the narration or dialogue) from the novel that would help describe the protagonist to someone who has never read the book.
“I was born because a scientist managed to hook up my mother's eggs and my father's sperm to create a specific combination of precious genetic material.”
"‘It's fourteen-karat gold,’ I pitch. ‘Hardly ever worn.’ This is a lie; until this morning, I haven't taken it off in seven years. My father gave it to me when I was six after the bone marrow harvest, because he said anyone who was giving her sister such a major present deserved one of her own.” “’Don’t mess with the system Anna,’ he says bitterly. ‘We’ve all got our script down pat. Kate plays the Martyr. I’m the Lost Cause. And you, you’re the peacekeeper.’ He things he knows my, but that goes both ways – and when it comes to friction, Jesse is an addict. I look right at him. ‘Says who?’”
4. Choose four interesting words from the first chapter and define them.
Leukemia: Any of several cancers of the bone marrow that prevent the normal manufuncture of red and white blood cells and platelets, resulting in anemia, increased susceptibility to infection, and impaired blood clotting.
Transplant: Surgery. To transfer (an organ, tissue, etc.) from one part of the body to another or from one person or animal to another.
Cancer: a malignant and invasive growth or tumor, especially one origination in epithelium, tending to recur after excision and to metastasize to other sites.
Neutrophils: A phagocytic white blood cell having a lobulated nucleus and neutrophil granules in the cytoplasm.
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