In the stories “My Sister’s Keeper” and “Rules of the Game” there are many similarities and differences between them.
One similarity between Anna from My Sister’s Keeper and Mei from Rules of the Game is that they both have awful childhoods. The awful childhoods are caused by their mother’s wishing for a better life. On pg 354 in My Sister’s Keeper ____ says “well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.” I think that this is representative of how both the mother’s feel about making their daughters’ do things they don’t want to to get to a better life.
However the character’s also are different. The situation that Anna is in is that her mother wants her to give up her life for her sister. Mei’s mother is pushing her to be the best even if it means that she isn’t happy. In The Rules Of the Game (pg. 10) Mei says “but there was one duty I couldn’t avoid… Saturday Market days my mother would proudly walk with me”. This shows that Mei’s mother just wants to have a smart kid to be proud of. When Anna is angry with her situation she goes out and gets a lawyer so she can get medical emancipation, but Mei runs
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The symbol in The Rules of the Game is the chess board. It represents how Waverly feels as though she’s a chess piece in her mother’s game because she doesn’t get to make any decisions about what she wants to do. When Waverly is tired of playing chess it appears in her nightmare as her against her mother and her mother’s pieces chased her off the board. Mei dreams after she runs away “My white pieces screamed as they scurried and fell off the board one by one. As her men drew closer to my edge” The symbol in My Sister’s Keeper is the necklace that Anna got as a gift. The necklace symbolises her complacency with the donations and treatments she gets to help her sister. As soon as Anna wants to subpoena her parents for medical emancipation she sells it off for money to pay for a