My Sister's Keeper...♥... Jodi Picoult

The world was very lucky on May, 19th/ 1966, that was the very day that god gave us Jodi Picoult. She is the proud author of fifteen bestselling novels. She was born and raised in Nesconset. Jodi wrote her first story at the age of five years old, it was titled “The Lobster Which Misunderstood”. She has been a professional writer from 1992 to present. Jodi Picoult studied creative writing with Mary Morris at Princeton, and had two short stories published in Seventeen magazine while she was still a student. Jodi is a very heart felt writer, she has won many awards for her writing skills. Some of these awards included The New England Bookseller Award for fiction, The Alex Award (from the Young Adult Library Services Association), The Book Browse Diamond Award for book of the year and many more. (more to come)
Jodi is happily married and has three beautiful children. Her husbands name is Tim Van Leer, they met in while attending the same college. “My husband is fully responsible for making my life run smoothly,” says Picoult. To this day her and her loving family live in Hanover, New Hampshire.
“The best part of my job is my fans,” she claims this because she loves waking up everyday to find emails from her fans saying how fantastic she is. Who wouldn’t? She says that the worst part of her job is “The Actual world of Publsihing”. On that note Jodi talks about how mergers between companies, tightfisted marketing departments, and a bizarre fascination with Hollywood makes the publishing world a very difficult place to forge a career. Everybody has someone who has influenced their life by a great deal, and for Jodi that is her mom and Mary Morris. “My mom, who always said “You can,” and who believed in me. And Mary Morris, who made me a better technical writer and taught me to challenge myself.”
Jodi Picoult is a very talented writer, she makes you feel what the character is feeling. I have only started reading My Sister’s Keeper and I am loving it. I would love to be just half the writer that she is, she truly is an amazing author.


“It's hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes.”
— Financial Times



http://www.jodipicoult.com/ is the website that I found most useful to me.

My Synthesis...♥

Life is full of violence, indifferences and inhumanities, there is nothing we can do about it but do our best to live life as planned. Violence is something that is commited everyday, some people are very aware of their actions and some are so totally unaware to the point where they do not know as to why they are doing it. The short stories "The Lottery" and "The Perils of Indifference" both demonstrate that terrible violence and inhumanity can be demonstrated by the most "ordinary" citizens. I know that when there is a fight or brawl going on in our everyday life that people don’t intervene when they should. They find it entertaining and don’t feel the need to interrupt the acts of violence. Or just because no one else is breaking it up they feel that they shouldn’t. That has been going on for centuries, going all the way back to the very first wars. People were killing other people, not because they wanted to but because they were told to. They were told to go fight for their country, probably without even knowing the reasons they were fighting for. "Ordinary" people were drafted into the war and were told that, "These are the people we want you to kill," and with out knowing what was going on, we did it.
In "The Lottery" everyone in the village is gathered at the same spot to take part in the activity, known as the lottery. Now I know what your thinking, "It’s a lottery, someone is going to win" which is true, but what these people won wasn’t money or a reward. They won "Death", people would grab stones and gather around the winner and throw them at him/her (in this story’s case it was, Mrs. Hutchinson) until they died. Even the person's closest friends and family would throw stones. Mrs. Hutchinson had her family members, her own kids, throw stones at her to kill her. While they were throwing them at her, she was screaming "It isn’t fair, It isn’t right", which I think is true. People were participating in this act, this violent act which was so terribly wrong but they did it because other people were doing it and it’s been going on for years and years, it was somewhat of a tradition. (A very sick one indeed.)
"The Perils of Indifference" is a speech given by a guy named Elie Wiesel, he talks about all the indifferences in the world. "Of course, indifference can be tempting, more than that -- seductive" he had a point, we dont know why we are doing it or how, so it keeps happening. "Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end"
Terrible violence and inhumanity can be demonstrated by the most "ordinary" humans, i think that is only because we dont know about it. We take orders without asking. I can assure you that in the past if we knew about half the stuff that we were doing, it wouldnt have happened. Surely someone would have put a stop to it, if i was around i know that i would.