Noble Sacrifice In 'My Sisters Keeper'

“I want to sue them for the rights to my own body.” Anna, from the novel My Sisters Keeper, believes her choice to sue her parent is a noble sacrifice. She believes it’s the right thing to do because it’s her body and she wants to make her own choices and she wants to enjoy the remainder of her childhood. Anna fells the end justifies the means. To begin, Anna wants to be able to make her own choices about her own body. “The fact that even now, a major decision about me is being made, and no one’s even bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion.” This excerpt from the passage shows Anna’s feeling of losing control. She feels as if her body isn’t her own, as if she’s a “harvest crop” for her sick sister
Kate. By suing her parents Anna hopes to regain her sense of self-worth and control. To continue, Anna wants to enjoy the remainder of her childhood. Since she’s an allogeneic donor for her sister, she spends most of her time in the hospital. With her sister, being as sick as she is, Anna never really was a kid. “…we’ve been too busy looking over our shoulders to run headlong into growing up.” From a very young age Anna has had to be mature and strong for her sister and her family, now it’s important that she experiences a normal childhood. In conclusion, Anna believes the end results of suing her parents will justify the measures she went through to do so. By suing her parents she wants to regain control of her body and enjoy the remainder of her childhood.