3.3 Brian Fitzgerald’s
The children’s father, he is a fire fighter captain is torn between a rock and hard place; he likes the myth of the Pawnee Indians and he is so interested with the
astronomy. As quoted:
“My father like the myth of the Pawnee Indians, who saw the star delights populated the world; Evening stars and Morning
star hooked up and gave birth to the first female. The first boy comes from the sun and the man. Humans rode in on the back of
a tornado.”
Picoult, Jodi, 2009:299.
Brian has a humor sense, he likes making people laugh and he is also a friendly man.
As quoted:
“It’s fine.” I take the one piece she has managed to dissert from the roast and cut a smaller bite. I might as well be chewing
leather. “Delicious, I’m just gonna run down to the station and get a blow torch so that we can serve every one else.”
Picoult, Jodi, 2009:48
Brian is a good father he always tries to pay attention to his children as he can. When he knew his eldest daughter diagnosed APL, he is so sad. And he is became a
fire fighter because one reason he wants to save the people. But he should have been more specific. He is should be have named names that is his daughter Kate. He
always supports his wife and desire to keep Kate alive and he always give a supports to Anna when she needed.
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On the other hand, Brian is a independent and responsibility man. He loves his wife. Brian takes his wife out to dinner to make her feel better and forgets the central
conflict in their family, Kate sickness. He is so responsible, when Sara’s sister give them a check for .100, 000 that is costs for a bone marrow. But Brian refuses that
because he has his own reason, Kate is his daughter so he is belong to her. He decides to find the money by his own way without asking help from someone else.
As quoted:
“I won’t let your sister take care of Kate.” Brian says. “I’m supposed to take care of Kate.”
Picoult, Jodi, 2009:287
Brian always tries to be fair with his children. His love is deferent with Sara, he loves all his children he loves Kate as she would any child and he loves Anna as he
children too; not as the Kate’s keeper. He gets angry when Sara does not tell the truth to Anna and when Sara refuses to stay with Anna when she just had bone marrow
transfusion. Brian faces difficult problem in his life that might be make his family torn apart.
He feels remarkable that while one of their daughters is leading him and his wife in to a legal crisis, the other is in throes of a medical one but then again, they have known
for quite sometime that Kate’s at the end stages of renal failures. It is Anna this time, who is thrown them for a loop. Therefore, his son Jesse has pyromania. As a human
being, he always figures it out; and he is manages to deal with both.
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Brian Fitzgerald’s morality is very strong in responsibilities. He believes that he has to responsible for everything as the consequence of what he did. He tries to full it
whole his life, even if it needs any sacrifice. Being a good parent facing a difficult problem, take care all of the broken family is not easy for him. The climax of Brian’s
sadness is when he lose his daughter that he loves for a long time, afterwards; he instead that stars were people who were so well loved they were traced in
constellations, to live forever. He begins works round the clock shift, so he would not have to come home. And he fell deep into a bottle after Anna’s left him.
3.4 Jesse Fitzgerald’s
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