My Sister's Keeper My Sister's Keeper was the story of a daughter, Anna, that was practically born into donating for her sister Kate’s health. This portrays many different legal and ethical issues when looked at by the perspective of the patient, the lawyer, the family, and the physician. Some issues being suing for rights to her own body, creating Anna for the purpose of a donor, and having stopped treatments by the wish of Kate. Ever since Anna was a baby, she was used to donate bone marrow, blood cells, and blood for the purpose of keeping Kate alive. As a child her age, she couldn't make decisions for herself, and her decisions were made by her parental figures, because they had rights to her body. She soon realized that
SUMMARY Anna Fitzgerald was conceived to be the perfect donor for her sister Kate, who is suffering from leukemia, in other words, blood cancer. Her parents handpicked the embryo to have genes that would perfectly match Kate’s in order to get the stem cells that would save Kate. After that, Kate goes into remission. However the cancer comes back, and Anna is consistently needed throughout her life to supply Kate with cells and even bone marrow. Kate’s condition holds Anna back from doing many things, such as sports and living independently away from the family.
She believes now that she did not have adequate coping skills to deal with the death of her mother at such a young age. Her
Important decisions she has to make, she makes herself. In her life, she makes big decisions in life for herself but sometimes people don't walk alone. “ Well many people, like myself, believe that their whole lives and details in it, are made with the help of God. He is always with and you are NEVER alone” (Collins).
And through this agency, she learns to appreciate life for what it is, and experience the world through the joy of it being her own. Throughout the novel, this agency was continuously denied from her, through the
A choice that she makes that revealed her motivations is when she had had enough of her mother and her aunts fighting to be the best child in the eyes
In conclusion Jannete had to become independent at a young age but also worried about her mother and
Her mother died when she was at a young age, though that made her become more determined with the desire to expose her mother to the world and gain new
She started experiencing the brutal truth of the outer world as when her mother was alive she was given every comfort never made her realize that she was a slave. This clearly means that to deal with the hardship around
She had to force her son to draw for her even though she felt she herself felt he wasn't of age to do
It’s obvious that this helped her to know what she wanted out in life, considering she hadn’t gotten much of that as a child. Also, when the transitions made, we become different people with different values. This is obvious when her mother discovers her newly found lifestyle. “Look at the way you live. You've sold out.
Brian Fitzgerald, the father of Anna, Kate and Jesse Fitzgerald, is a firefighter and spends his days battling the fires, both real and symbolic, which destroy other people’s lives. Unfortunately, he is unable to fight the fires within his own life, and this leads to the destruction of his ability to save his family from the difficult situations they face. The Fitzgerald family’s medical and moral issues that stem from Anna being born as a medical donor for Kate affect each of the characters in different ways. In My Sister’s Keeper, fire is the mechanism used to symbolize these problems that the Fitzgerald family faces. Fire in a general sense is the combustion that occurs when fuel reacts with oxygen to release heat energy.
This was the case in the movie, My sister’s keeper. The second section of this paper will discuss the life of Kate a young girl with leukemia from the movie My sister’s keeper. At a young as age, Kate doctor discovered that she had leukemia, and her parent tried hard to do all they can do. “Leukemia is cancer of the body’s blood-forming tissues, including the bone marrow and the lymphatic system” (). Her parent nor her brother was a match to donor bone marrow to Kate, but her younger sister was a match, so their mother forced Anna to be the designated donor.
After graduating high school, she applied for college, but while instead of succeeding, she never really applied herself. She ended up living with her homeless parents, and even though she picked up small jobs here and there, they never really lasted. She started smoking and ended up stabbing her own mother and going to jail. You can say all of this happened because she never had to pick up her own weight, so when it came time for her to get out into the world for herself, she crumbled. If she had the freedom to make her own choices and fend for herself from a young age, then she would have learned wrong from right early on while she still had
By doing so it allows Rose to realize that she is not motherly and she needs to get her life togeth-er in order for her kids have a brighter future, and to help herself. Jeanette speaks her mind and so does Anna from the Fitzgerald family. Anna is a strong female character from My Sister’s keeper. Similar to The Glass Castle, Anna is also taking a stand for herself. In My Sister’s Keeper Anna has her own battles and takes on a fight for
While reading the story, you can tell in the narrators’ tone that she feels rejected and excluded. She is not happy and I’m sure, just like her family, she wonders “why her?” She is rejected and never accepted for who she really is. She is different. She’s not like anyone else