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The Fitzgerald Family interact with each other very well throughout the movie, even-though the daughter Kate, was suffer with Leukemia, you could tell they love each other. They mostly talked face to face try to understand each other, as the still are trying to cope with Kate disease. When everyone found out Anna got a lawyer and refused to give her sister a kidney they all had sat down at the table and try to find out why Anna did not want to do it. Anna basically told them she just want to live a normal life and don't want to go through it cause it will hurt and it may not work. Since Kate was sick since she was little, most of the family attention went to her. Even-though Kate was mostly in the hospital through out her life she interacted with family by going out. She talk with her mother Sara and Anna the most telling how she fell and joke around. The two sisters Anna and Kate had a great relationship. They would call each other "sissy," throughout the movie and they would just talk about place she wants to, and her dreams, and wishes. The little sister Anna carry her sister finally wish away from he mother, while Anna and her mother Sara relationship was falling apart. Sara just wanted to know why Anna does not want to help her sister by giving her one of her kidneys. They would mostly be arguing. Sara Fitzgerald also interact with the rest family the same way afterwards, fusing and uptight about the decisions the family was making while Kate was in the hospital. Moreover Sara was trying to do what she thought was best for Kate health, while Anna was doing what Kate wanted, even though she didn't what to let go of her sister too. The dad Brian Frizgrald would talk with his kids and try to see each si...

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...elp sister, and never ask, but that wasn't the case. Even-though Anna was just doing what her sister told he to do, she develop a way to speak for her self and have control over her own body. That wasn't because she didn't want to help her sister, but it also was away she started to believe she can't help sister all the time, due to that fact she was dying. The brother Jesse also went through the same developmental process while Kate was alive, cause most of his parents attention was on Kate. He also cared about his sister very much, but he had some problems with saying out late at night and stuff. Once Kate had passed away he stop missing school and went to college. The whole Family went through this roller coaster ride, learning how to live and let go of stuff you don't have control over. They all develop a good bound and understanding of each other in the end.

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