My Sister's Keeper
by: Jodi Picoult
Major Difference
Difference in Age
Change in Characters
Jesse Fitzgerald
In the book, Jesse is a pyromaniac. He takes all of his anger and frustration that comes from his difficult family situation out in the fires he sets in abandoned warehouses. This side of Jesse is never shown in the movie, so it makes it seem like this situation doesn't affect him as much as it actually did. The fires that he set show how much he actually cared about his sister and family, and how upset he was because of everything that was going on.
Julia Romano
Appointed as Anna's guardian ad litem in the book, she is no where to be found in the movie. She played an important role in helping figure out who Anna was, and she made sure to make others know how Anna really felt about the situation. I was very surprised that she was left out of the movie because she was featured in the book quite often, and she made Campbell seem more personable since the two of them had such a past together.
Brian Fitzgerald
In the book, Anna has a very close relationship with her dad, Brian. At one point, during the lawsuit, the two of them move out of the house and into the fire station so she could be away from her mom without being totally away from her whole family. This whole move was completely left out of the movie, which doesn't make sense to me because it wasn't until this point in the book that the reader was able to see how close of a relationship Anna and her dad had. It caused the reader to like her dad more because it showed how gracious and understanding he was of Anna, and that he was looking out for both of his daughters, not only his sick one, like Anna's mom was.