Salam Abdalmeer Ahmed, Dr. Mahmood Reza Ghorban Sabbagh & Dr. Masood Khoshsaligheh
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
This study examines the psychological aspects of creating saviour siblings in Jodi Picoult’s novel, My Sister’s Keeper. The novel is examined using Batson’s moral- psychological theory and his concepts relating to the term ‘‘altruism’’. The study portrays creating saviour siblings as a complicated moral-psychological issue. The researchers conclude that some characters in the novel suffer from many problems which lead to create the psychological dilemma in the world of the novel. Moreover, some important conclusions are shown through applying Batson’s concepts. The researchers portray characters’ psychological motives behind using the organs of their saviour sibling. The study concludes that parent’s empathic emotions are the source of their altruistic motivation. Also, the results of this study show that conceiving saviour siblings leads to create a dilemma in the psychology of the saviour sibling and also in the psychology of the sick child. The savoir sibling and the sick child will suffer psychologically in the future.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Third International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 31 January-1February 2019 , Ahwaz.
