Outside Reading #8

When Anna's parents finally arrived at home Picoult describes the emotion of the situation, "They come in like a hurricane. Kate barely manages to look at me before my father sends her upstairs to our room. My mother whacks her purse down, then her car keys, and then advances on me. 'All right,' she says, her voice so tight it might snap. 'What's going on?'" (Picoult 53). After a long angry debate, Anna's parents convince her to talk to the judge and repeal the lawsuit. "My mother holds me tighter. 'We'll talk to the judge and explain it. We can fix this,' she says. 'We can fix everything.' And because those words are really all I've ever wanted to her, I nod" (Picoult 58). After that conflict, the book goes to Sara's perspective again where it is affirmed that Kate's diagnosis is APL. Sara speaks with the doctor about the change in lifestyle that goes along with that disease, and it begins to sink in with the family that it isn't just temporary.