My Sister's Keeper

A personal favorite of mine, the book My Sister’s Keeper, was beautifully crafted to tug at the heartstrings of the reader. The author, Jodi Picoult, writes about a family, or more specifically a young girl (Kate), battling cancer. The protagonist Anna Fitzgerald, is only thirteen years old during the main conflict described in the book. She is posed with a harrowing decision. She has two options: Firstly, to willingly donate her kidney to her ill sister or, to fight the claim that her sister is entitled to her kidney. The author describes Anna’s life tragically. She was born in a test tube for one sole purpose; to anatomically gift her sister with healthy tissue etc. Eventually the task becomes too much. Anna ultimately comes to the
And everyone, Anna included, are scared for the inevitable death of Kate. I as well have an older sister, and brother. They both are so important to me, I just could not imagine making a decision so large and with such a great cost. My sister is a huge part in my life, some would say a role model, to me. If in the same situation, I believe I would do whatever it takes to help her. Saying that,I must disagree with Anna’s action. It takes a lot of passion and anger to make a decision like this, and I must give her props for sticking up for her beliefs. But no one will ever be able to replace the best friend that was also your sister. As a child of divorced parents, I also know the pain of having a separation within the family. As stated before, her act of suing only tore her family apart. And it is a dreadful pain to go through such a separation, the destruction of life as it once was. I would never want to re-live that pain because of my own personal actions. Keri Russell once quoted, “Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever”. In this case, the act of saying “no” leads to a drastic change within the book. To conclude, we all make tough decisions, and it is okay to defy the norm