Summary: Anna 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.
At the end of the novel, Kate is revealed to be the one who asked Anna to sue for medical emancipation, because, fed up with the awareness of how much she took from her and the rest of their family, she wanted, for once, to be the sister who protected the other one.
Anna is healthy and strong and she will do anything for her dying sister, Kate. However, one day she starts to question who she truly is and the reasons why her family keeps her as a part of the family. She decides to hire a lawyer and sues her parents because they do not give her the right to control her own life.
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.
What was the last thing Kate said before she left for the hospital prom with Taylor? "Do I look pretty Daddy?".
Campbell Alexander, who once sued God on behalf of a child and has a mysterious service dog (yet he won't tell anyone what the service is), decides to take on a new child client: Anna Fitzgerald, who was genetically engineered to donate blood to her sister, Kate, but doesn't want to do it anymore.
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. Anna brings to the attention of everyone around her that she matters too.
Campbell's service dog. Campbell does not reveal why he needs Judge for most of the book. Ultimately he reveals that Judge is an epilepsy service dog, meaning he alerts Campbell if a seizure is imminent so Campbell can move to a safe environment.
The Story Behind My Sister's Keeper However, “It can get to the brain and kill you… so you've got to get rid of it. We took an experimental approach that required multiple surgeries” — 13 of them.
13-year-oldPlot Summary. Told from multiple perspectives, My Sister's Keeper follows the story of 13-year-old Anna Fitzgerald as she sues her parents, Brian and Sara, for medical emancipation.
Campbell, Anna, Brian, and Sara meet in Campbell's office. Sara offers a deal: If Anna gives Kate her kidney, Anna will never have to give anything else to Kate.
There's a real set of sister's from which this story idea evolved. Fortunately, the real story had a happy ending. The most media attention they got was the fact the family had a baby to get her cord blood.
Summary: Anna He awkwardly serves Sara papers for the lawsuit Anna has filed for medical emancipation. Sara responds angrily, but before she can talk to Anna about the lawsuit, Kate cries out in pain. Sara goes to Kate's bedside while Anna runs out of the hospital room.
acute promyelocytic leukemiaKate has acute promyelocytic leukemia.
2Kate Fitzgerald was diagnosed with a rare type of blood and bone marrow cancer when she was 2, and her parents decided to do something about it.
At 21 years on 7/1, he has a bright future ahead as a film heartthrob. There's a real set of sister's from which this story idea evolved. Fortunately, the real story had a happy ending. The most media attention they got was the fact the family had a baby to get her cord blood.
The lawsuit satisfies both desires: it gives Anna control of her own body, allowing her to put her own interests before Kate’s; and since Kate will die without Anna’s kidney, Anna can fulfill Kate’s wish to die. Anna also represents the point where science and humanity intersect.
Her parents conceived her—with the aid of scientists—for a very specific reason: to provide Kate with a genetic match whose organs could help keep Kate alive.
Thus, Anna’s life suggests that no matter how far science advances in its ability to engineer humans for a purpose, those humans are still thinking, feeling people who will always mean more than just their scientific reason for being. Previous section Character List Next section Sara Fitzgerald. Test your knowledge.
Sara even admits she could only think of the unborn Anna in terms of what she could do for Kate. Despite this scientific reason for Anna’s existence, she clearly amounts to more than just a donor, both to her family and to the reader.
At the same time, Anna desperately wants to exist independently of Kate, but she knows she cannot do so as long as her main purpose in life consists of keeping Kate alive. These contradictory feelings make up the tragic core of Anna’s character. She feels a tremendous sense of guilt for wanting to live separate from Kate ...