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__**5/2/11 Session #5 Connections-**__ **__Kassie's Connections-__** > > __**4/27/11 Session #4 Connections -**__ __**Joseph's Connections -**__ 1. When Anna asks for that 600$ leg pads that reminds me of when I asked my parents to buy me something very expensive and the instant I tell them, they look at me very shocked.
 * __Kaylee's Connections-__**
 * Page 370 when Julia is talking about how she reacted after Campbell broke up with her: I made a connection to the movie //P.S. I Love You// with Gerard Butler and Hilary Swank. In this movie, her husband died and she wouldn’t get out of bed for months. She wouldn’t answer any phone calls or open the door for anybody. This is similar because When Campbell and Julia break up, she wouldn’t talk to anybody of leave the comfort of her bed. It shows how people don’t like to let go of someone even after they are gone.
 * Page 380 where Campbell has his seizure in front of the courtroom. – This reminded me of a time during 8th grade. I was on the basketball team and we were at this tournament. We were in the middle of a game when the whole gym gasped and then went silent. We had heard a sound like someone hitting the floor, but we didn’t think anything of it until our referees had stopped us in the middle of our game. We looked where everyone had their heads turned and a referee was in the middle of the court next to ours having a seizure. Luckily, one of our girls’ moms was a nurse and she immediately went to help him and called an ambulance. What this shows is how lucky some people can be when they are in need of serious medical attention.
 * Page 414 where Brian is attending a car accident. He sees Judge, the dog climb out of the car and immediately realizes that his daughter is the one in the accident. Later, on page 415, she is pronounced brain dead because of her head hitting the windshield. – This reminded me of no book, movie, or memory in particular. But it did make me think of all those books, memories, and movies that had surprise unhappy endings. Nicolette and I would always say how no author would ever kill his or her main character. This is why this book REALLY surprised me when Anna died.
 * Page 422 & 423 where Kate is talking about what happened after Anna died. She said that she would sometimes sit in her room with her headphones blasting just so she wouldn’t have to hear her mother cry. She also said how her father wouldn’t want to come home from work and how he fell into a deep depression after she passed. – This reminded me of a very hard time for my parents and her friends. I was just a little baby who never cried, just a happy-go-lucky little baby. My parents were friends with these people who had a little boy my age. We acted like brother and sister and were so very close. One night, my mom’s friend was driving with her son (my pretend brother, Cody) in the front seat in his car seat. They ended up swerving, going over a hill, and crashing into a tree. This had killed my pretend brother instantly. After Cody passed, his mother and father wouldn’t talk to my parents. They wouldn’t talk to anybody for that matter. When my family went to his funeral, we walking in and saw his 4-year-old little body in his little casket. Like I said earlier, I never cried. But, when we walked into that church for that funeral, I started crying. Cody’s mom was never the same, as well as her dad. They would always fall into depressions randomly and they will never be the same. Just to add a nice ending, they ended up having a daughter many years later, and they named her Caylee.
 * During the reading, Julia states, “Well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least” (Picoult 368). This can apply to my life and the life of others since sometimes when I want money, I have to do chores and help out even if I do not like doing those things.
 * Julia also points out “there is a point when you have to step back and say that it's time to let go” (Picoult 370). That statement reminds me of how parents feel when they send their kids to college and how people feel when they have to let their dying loved one go.
 * Moreover, Julia says, “you don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not” (Picoult 384). This quote applies to all the relationships in which the people love each other. No one is ever perfect, and Julia reinstates that by saying this.
 * In the end of the reading, Kate has to face the fact that she is still in this world even though Anna is not. People who lose a loved one can relate to this Also, in the book //House Rules//, which is by Jodi Picoult too, the main character, Jacob, has to go on living his life even though his friend Jess has been murdered.

2. When Kate goes into the hospital and is very ill and Brian thinks she may die reminds when my dad had some kind of surgery on his brain and after that he was very sick. We weren’t sure if he was going to make but like Kate, he was able to.

3. When Anna test to see if Santa Claus is real reminds when I tried to see if he was real. I wrote a list to him and told my parents to get other things, and when the things I wanted to get didn’t come; I figured Santa was not real.

4. When Brian describes how to make a bomb reminds me of the movie Fight Club, when right out they say you can make napalm out of gasoline and orange juice.

__**Kassie's Connections -**__ >
 * When Sara did not let Anna go to a hockey camp, it reminded me of when my parents did not let me go to a summer camp. Everyone cannot get what they want all the time.
 * Sara stated how she loves both Anna and Kate equally and that is what my mom says of my brother and I.
 * In the middle of the reading, Taylor asks Kate to go to a dance with him. That is just like how people in high school go to dances together and that is when the two were able to experience an event that was normal.
 * Sara says to Kate, “Just because you're angry, you don't have to take it out on the rest of the world” (Picoult 316). This reminds me of when my mom tells me that I should not take my anger out on her and the rest of the family just because I am mad about something unrelated to them.
 * Sara points out how she and Brian have “completely forgotten to step back and see what we've accomplished” (Picoult 352). They have been too busy focusing on appoints, bills, and making sure their family is okay. This is how our society can sometimes be. People can be too caught up in working full time that they forget to realize their accomplishments and achievements.

**__4/11/11 Session #2 Connections -__**

__**Nicolette's Connections:**__
 * Connection to the novel Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. Similar central themes and style of writing.
 * Connection to disaster in Japan. Brought up the question; "People in Japan have been forced to give up everything, what does it say about Anna if she isn't willing to give up her kidney for Kate"? -
 * Connection to my mom and her recent surgery; hamstring from donor, connects to the national donor registry in the book.
 * Other connection to my mom, regarding sympathy from strangers because of an obvious physical disability (chemo to leg injury).
 * Connection to self experience with awkward relationships (Campbell and Julia)

Connection to people I know: Kate goes through the same rituals she always does, even though she thinks she may be dying. In fact, when asked why, she says that she’s doing it specifically because she might not be coming back, and that, in the case that she dies, she wants to have caused them as little burden as possible. This is an attitude that many take when they have come to terms with their eventual death.
 * __Kelsey's Connections:__**