Research Paper On My Sister Keeper

I found Jodi Picoult’s novel, “My Sister Keeper”, to be an emotional and inspirational story. Anna Fitzgerald was created as a designer baby to be a donor for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with Leukemia. “They had me so I could save Kate. I wouldn’t be alive if Kate wasn’t sick”. When Anna turns 13, she decides that she has had enough and sues her parents for the right to her own body. This novel describes the pain and damage the arrangement caused their family and teaches the audience about the damaging nature of expectations and grief.

“My Sisters Keeper” setting is a mix between present times and events from the past fourteen years. Anna Fitzgerald files a lawsuit against her parents for the right to her own body so that she will no longer have to be a donor for her sister Kate, who has had cancer nearly her whole life. Because of Kate’s failing health, Sara (Anna and Kate’s mother) insist that Anna changes her mind but trial begins. Anna takes the stand to speak and admits on the stand that Kate forced her to file the lawsuit because she believes that she will not survive another operation and die. “She’s making Anna do all this ‘because she knows she is …show more content…
Using a child for spare parts is simply not right “the truth is that I was never really a kid”. A child is not an object or a thing. Although Anna’s parents do love her, they don’t really think of her as her own person or their daughter. I think they look at her more as a way to save Kate than another one of their beloved children. The trial, which takes up a considerable amount of the novels plot, is based on resolving this conflict. Anna has no legal obligation to donate her kidney, which would require and carries a risk of health problems which could affect her when she if older. Yet without this kidney, Kate will die. “You don’t have to do this if you don’t want to, but I know that Kate is counting on you. And Daddy and