My Sister’s Keeper. Anna stands out as the book’s most conflicted character. Her connection with Kate, and her struggle to exist independently of that connection, both define her. She tells Campbell, for instance, that of all the things she might want to be in ten years, what she most wants to be is Kate’s sister.
Aug 05, 2018 · My Sister's Keeper. Synopsis: In Los Angeles, the eleven year old Anna Fitzgerald seeks the successful lawyer Campbell Alexander trying to hire him to earn medical emancipation from her mother Sara that wants Anna to donate her kidney to her sister. She tells the lawyer the story of her family after the discovery that her older sister Kate has ...
Anna shows Jesse a newspaper clipping about a lawyer named Campbell Alexander. Jesse warns her not to mess with the system and the roles everyone in the family has, but he still agrees to drive her to Campbell’s office.
Summary. The year is 2010, and Kate narrates in the first person. She discusses grief and how, after Anna’s death, Brian believed he could see Anna in the night sky and Sara thought Anna would come back to her. Kate says she began to hate herself. She blamed herself for Anna’s death. Kate stayed sick for a long time after the transplant ...
seizuresuntil Campbell ditched Julia on graduation day. Julia (and we the reader) are kept in the dark about why Campbell ditched Julia until the very end: He had a car accident, which gave him seizures, and he thinks this makes him inadequate to be with Julia. Wait, what?
Now at 11 years old, Anna seeks the help of Attorney Campbell Alexander to gain medical emancipation from her parents, more specifically her mother Sara.
Her parents conceived Anna because they needed a donor of umbilical chord blood to keep Kate alive, and since then Anna has donated bone marrow and stem cells to Kate when she relapsed. But now she no longer wants to continue being used as an organ bank for her sister, and her only resort is the law.
It is assumed Anna will be the donor, but she files a lawsuit to gain control over her body so she can stop donating. Anna reveals at the hearing that Kate was suicidal and urged her not to donate a kidney. Kate wanted her sister to be free of obligations to her.Dec 14, 2017
In this film, the writer concludes that there are some of moral values such as honesty, bravery, love and affection, fair or justice and loyalty. Kind moral value of bravery is the most dominant values that the writer found in My Sister's Keeper film by Nick Cassavates.
In the end, the judge awards Anna medical emancipation. It turns out that Kate wants to die because she's sick of living with cancer anyway, and the whole lawsuit was her idea the whole time.
"My Sister's Keeper" was inspired by a Colorado family's true story. The real-life story of the Nash family appeared in 5280: Denver's Magazine ( 5280.com/issues/2005/0508/feature.php? pageID=6 ). Jack and Lisa Nash wish the movie was never made.Jul 16, 2009
Like most of her works, the novel takes on a range of morally complex issues, from the ethics of genetic engineering, to the right of terminally-ill patients to elect to die, to a minor's right to control her own body.
While the film represents a range of morally complex issues, from the ethics of genetic engineering to the right of terminally ill patients to choose to die, to a minor's right to control her own body, there is a moral struggle raging through the family given that Kate continues suffering from cancer, and Anna seeks ...Jun 9, 2021
Anna tells Campbell that she wants to sue her parents for medical emancipation. Kate, her sister, is in the end stages of kidney failure, and Anna wants to file the lawsuit so she will not have to donate a kidney to Kate.
After Kate goes into kidney failure, Anna - with Jesse's help - approaches attorney Campbell Alexander, and tells him she wishes to sue for medical emancipation, on the basis that she will be required to donate one of hers, and that having just a single kidney will severely restrict her quality of life.
Anna dies, Kate lives, and nothing is as it was intended to be. Later, in the epilogue, Julia and Campbell get married, Jesse becomes a cop, and Brian and Sara feel guilty for pretty much neglecting Anna for thirteen years (as well they should).
Anna instigates the lawsuit because she no longer wants to play this role. Much of the section describes the Fitzgerald’s family life, as seen from the perspectives of different members of the family. In Anna’s view, the family revolves around Kate. Anna even wonders if she would exist if not for Kate’s leukemia.
He doesn’t think they will even need to go to trial, because Anna’s parents will give in before that. Anna leaves after Campbell tells her he will file a petition in family court for her medical emancipation. Campbell’s assistant, Kerri, expresses her shock that Campbell is representing Anna.
Kate upsets Sara because she wears a t-shirt with a picture of a crab and the word “Cancer” across it. Jesse walks in reeking of pot. Finally Anna arrives, and Brian immediately notices something is wrong. Anna remains quiet and withdrawn through the meal, and she does not have her locket on.
Sara starts her narration at Kate’s diagnosis with leukemia because Kate’s cancer served as the major turning point in Sara’s life.
After Kate’s diagnosis, when Brian and Sara lie in bed together, Brian breaks down into tears, while Sara says aloud that she will not let Kate die. From his narration, Campbell initially comes across as the stereotype of the slick lawyer, with a fancy office and bristling, annoyed demeanor.
Anna meets Campbell and notices he has a service dog, which Campbell sarcastically tells Anna prevents him from getting too close to magnets, because he has an iron lung.
Thirteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald begins narrating the story, which will continually alternate among different first-person narrators, in the present. She talks about the different reasons babies come into being and admits that she was born for a very specific purpose. Scientists used her mother’s eggs and father’s sperm to create a specific combination of genes. They created her in this way so she would be able to save her sister, Kate. Anna talks about visiting a pawnshop to sell a locket. She has a difficult time parting from the locket because her father gave it to her as a gift after she donated bone marrow to Kate. Anna goes on to describe herself as skinny and a freak. She talks about her family, how her sister Kate has leukemia, and how she has had to undergo medical procedures to help Kate whenever Kate has gotten sick. Her mother, meanwhile, obsessively shops online, and her older brother, Jesse, behaves like a delinquent because their parents don’t have time to care about him.
The epilogue allows us to see the aftermath of Anna’s death. For the most part, emotional devastation characterizes that aftermath. Sara cried almost incessantly and looked for signs that Anna would come back, indicating that she felt unable to let Anna go.
One year after Anna’s death, Sara came home with a roll of developed film from Kate’s high school graduation. The last picture on the roll showed Anna. Sara and Kate stared at the picture until they memorized every detail. Kate fearsa day will come when it will be harder to remember Anna.
Kate wonders if Anna keeps tabs on them, if she knows they stayed close to Julia and Campbell and even went to their wedding, and whether Anna saw Jesse’s graduation from the police academy or witnessed Brian’s drinking problem and how he gradually got better.
She discusses grief and how, after Anna’s death, Brian believed he could see Anna in the night sky and Sara thought Anna would come back to her. Kate says she began to hate herself. She blamed herself for Anna’s death. Kate stayed sick for a long time after the transplant, but suddenly got better. Dr.
Dr. Chance had medical explanations, but Kate believed it was because someone had to go and Anna took her place. Kate talks about the immediate stages of grief in her family, how much her mother cried and how much her father kept away.
The family eventually stopped visiting Campbell and Julia, who married, because Campbell and Julia reminded them too much of Anna. Kate, as she tells the reader, hated herself.
Perhaps more importantly, keeping Kate silent allows Anna to act as the focus of the story.