My Sister's Keeper

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In My Sister’s Keeper, a thirteen year old girl, Anna, fights against her parents for “Medical Emancipation” so they can’t perform anymore operations on her without her consent. Anna was conceived to save her sister Kate’s life, because neither her parents nor her brother Jesse were a match when Kate needed a bone marrow transplant. Anna is raised donating to her sister against her will. When Anna reaches the age of thirteen and her sister Kate needs a Kidney to survive, her parents prepare to have Anna donate her Kidney, but without their knowlege, Kate has asked Anna to become Medically Emancipated because she’d rather die than continue to put her sister and her family though even more stress. Anna contacts a local lawyer who agrees to take her case although she is a minor. …show more content…

Soon, the day of the trial arrives and the family is more disjointed than ever when Jesse reveals it was Kate’s idea for Anna to become emancipated and that she wants to die. By the end, the judge wishes to visit Kate before making a decision and decides to emancipate Anna, leaving her parents scattered and grieved with this decision and the newfound information from Jesse. Before Kate passes away, she gifts her mother a memory book leaving her in tears. After Kate’s death, her mother returns to practicing law, her father begins to counsel “troubled youths” and retires from firefighting, and Jesse accepts an art scholarship. Each year on Kate’s birthday, the family takes a trip to Montana, which was earlier revealed as Kate’s favorite

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