maddysongs

=__My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult__=

__Character Song:__


 * Cough Syrup by Young the Giant**

One more spoon of cough syrup now //[x2]//
I chose this song because it can relate to the main character, Anna. Ever since she was born Anna has been giving to her sister Kate. First her cord blood, and then platelets and bone marrow. A decision made before she was even born determined her fate, and she had no say. The lyrics //Life's too short to even care at all oh, I'm losing my mind losing control// is exactly how Anna seems to be feeling. Her sister is dying whether she gives her a kidney or not. Also cough syrup is a painkiller and is supposed to soften the blow in a sense. When Anna starts the lawsuit against her parents she tells her lawyer Campbell that even if we win, we still lose. Anna was just looking for the solution that hurt the least.

Theme Song:


 * Use Somebody by Kings of Leon**

 I've been roaming around, I was looking down at all I see  Painted faces fill the places I can't reach   You know that I could use somebody   You know that I could use somebody  Someone like you and all you know and how you speak  Countless lovers under cover of the street   You know that I could use somebody   You know that I could use somebody   Someone like you  Off in the night while you live it up I'm off to sleep  Waging wars to shake the poet and the beat   I hope it's gonna make you notice   I hope it's gonna make you notice  Someone like me, someone like me  Someone like me, somebody  I'm ready now I'm ready now <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> I'm ready now, I'm ready now  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> I'm ready now, I'm ready now  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> I'm ready now <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> Someone like you, somebody <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> Someone like you, somebody  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> Someone like you, somebody <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> I've been roaming around, I was looking down at all I see <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> Even though this song is most likely about a relationship in the boyfriend girlfriend sense, the lyrics and emotion in the song are similar to the theme of //My Sister's Keeper//. Throughout the novel there is a recurring theme that no matter what terrible things happen, life goes on with help from love. Kate was diagnosed with APL at a very young age which was devastating to her family. Her brother Jesse is a pyromaniac, and her sister Anna is suing her parents for the rights to her own body, so she no longer needs to supply her sister with blood and organs, like her kidney. Anna's lawyer has had seizures ever since a car crash in high school. Kate's boyfriend died not from the cancer he had, but an infection because he had such a weak immune system. There are tons of examples of horrible things that happen to the characters in this book. These song lyrics, //You know that I could use somebody, someone like you//, relate to the book because every character in the book needed someone at one point. I think the ending of the novel shows that life goes on eventually.

Event Song:


 * Behind These Hazel Eyes by Kelly Clarkson**

Behind these hazel eyes
pg 138

The event I chose is when Anna goes to visit Kate in the hospital at night. This event stuck out for me because of something Anna said. "Jesse is wrong-- I didn't come to see Kate because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am." This shows that Anna still loves Kate, even though she no longer wants to be her donor, and doesn't want her to die. This song is about how two people used to be best friends and tell each other everything, and then something really bad happened to mess it up. Kate and Anna were not only sisters, but best friends. Then Anna started the lawsuit and they had to keep their feelings from each other they were, "//Broken up, deep inside, b////ut you won't get to see the tears I cry."//