Personal Narrative My Sister s Keeper By Jodi Picoult

Reading is my life. I enjoy every book that I pick up. I have many favorite authors from all types of backgrounds and all types of genres. My five favorite books are as followed: A Thousand Splendid Suns, My Sister’s Keeper, My Sister’s Keeper, The Secret Life of Bees and Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man. Each novel plays an important role in my life, they helped me get through some tough times. The books that I read while I was in high school helped me to find courage, to find faith, to find myself, and to understand love. I read most of these books while I was in high school as a part of my summer reading projects. At that moment, I did not know how important each book was going to be to me. One of the first books that I read that†¦show more content†¦The duo deals with the abuse from their husband and other events until one day Mariam gains the strength and kills him. In Afghan, it is a crime for a woman to kill her husband. The result is death. A year afte r I read these novels, several life events happened. On October 28, I decided that I would go to medical school to become an oncologist, after being inspired by My Sister’s Keeper. A couple of days later on Halloween, I experience a true life nightmare. My soon-to-be-boyfriend told me that he had cancer. For me to be only in high school and to just figure out what I wanted to go to college for, this news was very devastating. I had just figured my life out and on my life map, he was in it. The books allowed me to understand true courage. Anna in My Sister s Keeper gains courage when her sick sibling tells her to do something to make her happy, even though she knows it will affect her sibling s health. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Mariam gained the courage to stand up to her abusive husband and save the life of Laila and her son. It takes one strong person to have courage. On the night that my boyfriend told me the news, he said, â€Å"Why are you crying? What does crying do? Makes me wanna cry too. And how am I going to beat this if both of us are crying. After talking with him, I realized that he had the courage to make it through and beat cancer just as it was Anna s goal to make sure she