Family

In my first memory, I am three years old and I am trying to kill my sister. Sometimes the recollection is so clear I can remember the itch of the pillowcase under my hand, the sharp point of her nose pressing into my palm. She didn't stand a chance against me, of course, but it still didn't work. My father walked by, tucking in the house for the night, and saved her. He led me back to my own bed. "That," he told me, "never happened."

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As we got older, I didn't seem to exist, except in relation to her. I would watch her sleep across the room from me, one long shadow linking our beds, and I would count the ways. Poison, sprinkled on her cereal. A wicked undertow off the beach. Lightning striking.

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In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own.

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Or at least this is what I tell myself. ~This is the prologue.

Personally no. (Spoiler alert!) When I first read the prologue, before reading the book, I thought it was Anna speaking. I heard from my friends what the book was about and from reading the prologue, i thought it was Anna speaking. I'm sure almost all of you did too. I mean read the part that is bolded in the prologue above. That to me says Anna because on the back of the book and as you get on reading it, it states clearly that Anna lived in relation to Kate. She was here because of Kate and no one else. If Kate didn't have leukemia, Anna wouldn't of been born. That is why the prologue makes you think it is Anna speaking. Also the last sentence. "Or at least this is what I tell myself", that right there makes you think it is Anna. She filed that lawsuit against her parents so she wouldn't have to give her sister the kidney. But it was more than that. Kate asked her not to give it to her. Kate wanted to die because she was breaking the family. And she knew it. So Picoult is making you think it is Anna, speaking as if Kate died. If Kate died than Anna probably would of blamed herself because she filed that lawsuit and won. When she won it clarified that she no longer had to give anything to her sister. So if Kate would of died, Anna would be saying she did all on her own because she asked for it. And that is why you all think it was Anna speaking. After finishing the book I have realized that it was Kate speaking. Think about it. Anna died in the end. And it was really all because of Kate. If she didn't ask Anna not to give her the kidney she wouldn't of filed the lawsuit or of been in the car with Campbell. With that being said Kate said this because she was diagnosed when she was three years old and that was when her sister, Anna, was born. On purpose. They genetically made her to save her siste's life. The whole killing section in the prologue was said by Kate because at that point in her life she wanted to kill Anna. Not because she didn't love her, and that is what we have to remember throughout this whole book that they did eveyrthing they did out of love, but because she didn't want to live anymore. Kate knew if she were to die, her family would finally be okay. There wouldn't be anymore fighting or lawsuits or anything, it would just be a normal family, Sarah Brian Anna and Jesse, all healthy and happy. Kate knew she was tearing her family apart. But now that Anna is gone, Kate gets all of her organs meaning she can be healthy. It is just as Kate saw it though. A healthy happy family except that she was supposed to die, not Anna. I think the most moving line in the whole book is the last sentence spoken by Kate. she now carries her sister with her everywhere she goes. Kate says that Anna's blood is going through each of her veins right now and therefore she carries her sister with her everywhere she goes. ~I hope this answered your question!