Related Text Analysis Framework
Part 1: Orientation to the text. Title | My Sisters Keeper | Type of Text | Movie | Composer | Nick Cassavetes (Director) Jeremy Leven ( Screenplay) | Audience | Families. | SourceWhen? Where? | DVD personally owned & purchased in 2010. | Context | | Purpose | To show the sacrifices parents will make to keep their family together. | Key Elements | |
Part 2: Content of the Text Power & the Individual What ideas about power are represented? | * The battle for individual rights * Both Ken & Anna fight for individual rights to their body/life. * The power/influence of status * Ken & Anna’s desires cannot be fulfilled due to their low status, Ken being a medical patient vs. Doctors …show more content…
My Sisters Keeper relates to Whose Life is it Anyway? because both main characters in each text have the same wants & desires & the power presented are very similar.
Anna Fitzgerald, age 11 was brought into her family to be a genetic match for her older sister Kate Fitzgerald. She was a ‘donor child’, created to keep her sister alive. As Kate gets sicker, Anna learns she will be forced to donate her kidney to Kate in order to keep her alive. But Anna comes to realise that if she donates this kidney her life will change & she may not live it the way she dreamed. Anna decides to fight for the rights to her own body.
This relates to Whose Life is it Anyway? because Ken, also fights for his rights. Ken is a middle aged man, who was in a car accident & is a quadriplegic, paralysed from the neck down. He has been in a hospital for 6 months since his accident and knows that he has no way of gaining the use of his full body back. He is restricted to his bed & only has the use of his voice. He is sick of having everyone do everything for him & just wants to die. Unfortunately he does not have the power to make this
Part 1: Orientation to the text. Title | My Sisters Keeper | Type of Text | Movie | Composer | Nick Cassavetes (Director) Jeremy Leven ( Screenplay) | Audience | Families. | SourceWhen? Where? | DVD personally owned & purchased in 2010. | Context | | Purpose | To show the sacrifices parents will make to keep their family together. | Key Elements | |
Part 2: Content of the Text Power & the Individual What ideas about power are represented? | * The battle for individual rights * Both Ken & Anna fight for individual rights to their body/life. * The power/influence of status * Ken & Anna’s desires cannot be fulfilled due to their low status, Ken being a medical patient vs. Doctors …show more content…
My Sisters Keeper relates to Whose Life is it Anyway? because both main characters in each text have the same wants & desires & the power presented are very similar.
Anna Fitzgerald, age 11 was brought into her family to be a genetic match for her older sister Kate Fitzgerald. She was a ‘donor child’, created to keep her sister alive. As Kate gets sicker, Anna learns she will be forced to donate her kidney to Kate in order to keep her alive. But Anna comes to realise that if she donates this kidney her life will change & she may not live it the way she dreamed. Anna decides to fight for the rights to her own body.
This relates to Whose Life is it Anyway? because Ken, also fights for his rights. Ken is a middle aged man, who was in a car accident & is a quadriplegic, paralysed from the neck down. He has been in a hospital for 6 months since his accident and knows that he has no way of gaining the use of his full body back. He is restricted to his bed & only has the use of his voice. He is sick of having everyone do everything for him & just wants to die. Unfortunately he does not have the power to make this