Many court trials can take days, maybe weeks, to finalize a decision. The reason being is to hear all sides to the situation, from the plaintiff to the defendant, in order to eliminate any previous bias towards the case and to choose which side is morally correct. Like a court case, Picoult makes her readers perceive the situation from all sides, with a diverse range of backstories and narrations from her characters. Karen Campbell noted that Picoult’s “greatest strength [is] her ability to inhabit other people’s feelings, relishing the bits that are complex and contradictory.” Her talent in exploring the characters’ strengths and flaws encourages the readers to perceive the cases with open eyes to discover that only one side of an argument being only morally correct is notional and never realistic. This can be seen in Picoult’s 2004 novel My Sister’s Keeper, where the mother, Sara Fitzgerald, is seen as an antagonist in her daughter, Anna Fitzgerald’s court case for emancipation. In many character’s
Many court trials can take days, maybe weeks, to finalize a decision. The reason being is to hear all sides to the situation, from the plaintiff to the defendant, in order to eliminate any previous bias towards the case and to choose which side is morally correct. Like a court case, Picoult makes her readers perceive the situation from all sides, with a diverse range of backstories and narrations from her characters. Karen Campbell noted that Picoult’s “greatest strength [is] her ability to inhabit other people’s feelings, relishing the bits that are complex and contradictory.” Her talent in exploring the characters’ strengths and flaws encourages the readers to perceive the cases with open eyes to discover that only one side of an argument being only morally correct is notional and never realistic. This can be seen in Picoult’s 2004 novel My Sister’s Keeper, where the mother, Sara Fitzgerald, is seen as an antagonist in her daughter, Anna Fitzgerald’s court case for emancipation. In many character’s