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My Sister’s Keeper, written by Jodie Picoult, is a novel that was turned into a successful film. They focus on the Fitzgerald family, specifically 13 year old Anna Fitzgerald and her sister, Kate. Anna sues her parents for medical emancipation, when she is told to donate a kidney to save her sister, Kate, who is dying from a rare form of leukemia. The novel is the better medium of these; creating a sense of attachment to each character and helping the reader understand what the Fitzgerald family is going through.
By Zane Ellis (zaneellis@theherald.com.au)
Jodie Picoult, author of My Sister’s Keeper, had a few inspirations. One such inspiration is her son, at age 5, came down with cholesteatoma (a benign tumor in his left ear). Curing this involved many trips to the hospital. She wrote 10 books before My Sister’s Keeper and many after. One of which involved eugenics (science focused on creating a superior race through gene modification). This concept is further explored in My Sister’s Keeper. The novel Second Glance was written prior it and also provided some inspiration. In 2009,
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Wrong. Two scenes especially stand out in the film: Dr Chance recommending having a "designer" baby to the Fitzgerald family in a flashback and Anna explaining how she was conceived. In the novel, the doctor only implies what he thinks that the Fitzgerald's should do (create a designer baby), as he could lose his job for making such a recommendation. Creating a "designer" baby (choosing specific traits over others) is very controversial and often frowned upon. Anna however, accepts how she was created and knows that she was created for a purpose: to save her sisters life. This is controversial in-and of itself as many people object to using another person as "spare parts". My Sister’s Keeper combats this by showing the audience that Anna is a person too, capable of emotions, thought and making