My Sister's Keeper

            My Sister’s Keeper is both a book and a movie. The movie is directed by Nick Cassavetes; while the book’s author is Jodi Picoult. My Sister’s Keeper brought up a lot of controversy over life and when it’s okay for a child to say no more.

            My Sister’s Keeper is about how the older sister Kate is diagnosed with leukemia and the parents decide to do create an identical child of Kate so they can save Kate. That’s where Anna comes into place; she was born solemnly for the reason to use her body to save her older sister, Kate. The book and the movie are both similar in the aspects that Anna tries to get medical emancipated from her parents. The whole story brings up the question is it okay to create someone and use them to save another’s life? Well, that question and many others like it because the whole story centers around is it okay or do Anna’s parents expect too much out of her?

            The book compared to the movie is quite similar except for the endings to it, (spoiler alert) the end to the book is extremely sad; while the ending to the book is more of a happy ending. Both are very interesting though, because it’s the same story bringing up whether Anna has the right to say what she wants instead of her parents because Anna is only the age of 13. Basically, what started the reason why Anna wanted to get medically emancipated (meaning she would choose herself on medical circumstances) is because of donating a kidney, but it turns out in the end of the story that Kate just didn’t want to live anymore.

            The story is sad, especially the ending to the book; even though it meant a happy ending for Kate. The story of My Sister’s Keeper gets people to think where to draw the line at for someone to survive and if it is considered morally wrong to use someone to save the life of another. Anna got a lawyer in the story and her parents didn’t understand why she was doing this to them (her parents) and to her sister, Kate. Was too much expected of Anna to be the only reason her sister Kate was surviving? The whole story just brings up so many questions on if too much was expected and if what Anna was doing would be considered selfish or sparing her own life at the cost of her sisters.

            Just imagining if you were in that situation where you might have to give up your life to save a sibling would be a hard situation to come by. My Sister’s Keeper is an amazing story and was very well-written by Jodi Pitcoult because to think of the number of questions that can come by that story is intriguing; also the movie was a really good movie even if they changed the end of the movie from the book.