My Sister's Keeper is the account of one family's struggle to save a child while using another child to help save her. Anna wants medical emancipation from her parents because they want to use her to save her sister. The reason the matter is so complex is because of her age, 13. She is a minor, which means her parents can make decisions, "in the child's best interest", but "decisions that are clearly not in a child's best interest can and should be challenged" (Diekema). They each have dreams of what they want to happen. However, they face harsh realities, from learning what Kate wants to feelings they have about each other. Kate, Anna, and Sara figure out their dreams do not match reality. Anna Fitzgerald is a thirteen year old girl who
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However, her cancer keeps her in and out of the hospital constantly. She finds a glimpse of normality when she meets her dreamy boyfriend, Taylor. However, after Taylor dies, Kate becomes depressed again. She wants to live but she does not want her sister to be forced to save her. Kate realizes that to be free of the pain, she has to die. She tells Anna that she wants to die, which is exposed in court, “She said she was ready” (Picoult 679). While Kate's dreams and realities are different, she tries to play moderator between Anna and Sara by talking to both of them. Anna and Sara communicate most when gathered around Kate. Kate's dream of living does come true, with a price. In terms of dreams, everyone's dreams came true. Anna won her medical emancipation through a court decision. Sara and Kate's dream came true because Kate lived. However, the consequence is that Anna had to die to give her kidney to Kate. Kate lived but the loss of Anna was a burden for the whole family. Dreams can come true however, the reality is that dreams come true with a cost. Anna's cost was a bad relationship, at the time, with her mother. Kate and Sara's consequence was that Anna died. Dreams came true in the book but the realities replaced the happiness of the
However, her cancer keeps her in and out of the hospital constantly. She finds a glimpse of normality when she meets her dreamy boyfriend, Taylor. However, after Taylor dies, Kate becomes depressed again. She wants to live but she does not want her sister to be forced to save her. Kate realizes that to be free of the pain, she has to die. She tells Anna that she wants to die, which is exposed in court, “She said she was ready” (Picoult 679). While Kate's dreams and realities are different, she tries to play moderator between Anna and Sara by talking to both of them. Anna and Sara communicate most when gathered around Kate. Kate's dream of living does come true, with a price. In terms of dreams, everyone's dreams came true. Anna won her medical emancipation through a court decision. Sara and Kate's dream came true because Kate lived. However, the consequence is that Anna had to die to give her kidney to Kate. Kate lived but the loss of Anna was a burden for the whole family. Dreams can come true however, the reality is that dreams come true with a cost. Anna's cost was a bad relationship, at the time, with her mother. Kate and Sara's consequence was that Anna died. Dreams came true in the book but the realities replaced the happiness of the