25 Facts

1. I like taking pictures.
2. I like developing film in a darkroom.
3. I have triplet siblings.
4. I love to eat steamed crabs with old bay.
5. I love spending time with family.
6. I am Roman Catholic.
7. I babysit my little sister.
8. I stayed at the same school for grades K-8.
9. I love Mexican food.
10. I have never had a summer job.
11. I am the oldest in my family.
12. I like to go camping.
13. I love roller coasters.
14. I love hanging out with friends.
15. I am not a morning person.
16. I love dogs.
17. I have no pets.
18. I pray everyday.
19. I love using oil and chalk pastels.
20. I love staying up late.
21. I am learning to speak some Russian.
22. My favorite book is The Last Song
23. I like watching TV.
24. I don't like snakes.
25. My favorite author is Nicholas Sparks.

Jesse in My Sister's Keeper Character Profile

• • Name of character and family relationship
  • Approximate age and physical description of character
  • Profession in life
  • Personality traits
  • Interests and hobbies
  • Quirks
  • Who character is closest to in story
  • A good direct quotation from the character himself/herself that gives a clear look at the character's thoughts.  Remember page number.
  • Anything thing else that you find interesting and unique

• Relationship: Jesse is the older brother to Kate and Anna. He is a son to Brian and Sara.
• Description: 20 years old
• Profession: the older brother to Anna and Kate; not working; arsonist
• Traits: not patient
• Quote: "I am the kid that played with matches...I dribbled some Jean Nate on the floor, her (Anna) initials. Then I torched them. I figured she'd run screaming like a tattletale, but instead she sat right down on the edge of the bathtub...Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family."(93)
• Interests: setting things on fire; watching things burn
• Quirks: Doesn't want to live with his family, so he lives above the garage.
• Closest character: I think Anna would be. She is the only one that understands him. She also doesn't forget about him like his parents.
• Interesting about the character: I was surprised that he offered to donate the kidney to Kate. I didn't think he cared about her.

Figurative Language in My Sister's Keeper

simile- is the comparison of two unlike things using like or as


metaphor- comparison of two UNLIKE things. Metaphors are used to help us understand the unknown, because we use what we know in comparison with something we don't know to get a better understanding of the unknown.

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/

Similes:

• "Moments like this are the same kind of vacuum; no matter that you cling to, you wind up being sucked in." (11)
• "But it feels like we are sitting on the tight bench of a bus with a stranger between us, one that neither of us is willing to admit to or mention, and so we find ourselves talking around him and through him and sneaking glances when the other one isn't looking." (118)
• "She just moved toward the elevator banks with Jesse attached to her like a mussel on a crusty hull, and pushes the down button over and over in the fruitless hope that it will actually make the doors open faster." (136)

Metaphors:

• "My father says that a fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel." (13)
• "An inferno races through my belly and legs I fall back onto the couch." (15)
• "The temperature of the room, or maybe the wall that comes that comes up in her eyes." (118)

Both:

• "The room is a sea of dirty clothes and magazines and leftover Chinese take-out cartons  ." (14)
• "Unlike the other girls in school, with their smooth waterfalls of yellow hair caught up like ribbon candy, hers was an absolute tornado of black curls, and she never wore makeup-just those sharp features, take it or leave it." (120)