When Sara and Brian Fitzgerald found out their eldest daughter, Kate, had acute promyelocytic leukemia they were devastated, as most parents would be. They vowed to do anything and everything to help their daughter survive cancer. When the issue came to who could donate to Kate, they found out no one in the family was a match. Running out of options, they decided to listen to their doctor when he mentioned off the record that having another child specially made so that she could donate to Kate was an option; a savor baby. A savor baby is a child that is born to help heal an already existing sick child. Sara and Brian jumped on the idea without a second thought as to how this would affect their soon-to-be-child, Anna. Although their intentions …show more content…
This ties into Anna's self-esteem. She is not viewed as a whole person, but as a collection of spare parts to be given away. When she goes to Campbell's office she tells him "I wouldn't even be alive if it wasn't for Kate being sick" (Picoult, 22). She knows that she was not born to be an individual but as an extension of Kate. In My Sister’s Keeper Anna was never asked if she wanted to perform any of these donations. They only assumed she did because that is the reason she was born. Brian wanted the first blood cell transfusion from the umbilical cord to be the only transplant Anna would have to go through. When Kate started getting sick again, Sara assumed it would be okay to use Anna again. Brian was hesitant to keep using Anna as a donor because he did not want his other child to feel used. Although Brian wanted to have a say in his own parenting, Sara pushed him to have Anna keep donating. She believed that she had to do everything in her power to keep Kate alive. As long as none of these procedures were harming Anna in the long term, they were worth it to keep her child alive. Finally, Anna had enough. Anna wanted to live her own life, play hockey, and travel. As a spare parts baby, after donating her kidney, she would not be able to do any of these things. She was never asked for permission to do all these tests; it was just assumed that she would do them because her sister needed them, …show more content…
If Kate dies, Anna will feel like she failed. From the very moment Anna was born, she not only had to worry about her life, but the life of her sister. As stated in the second paragraph, Anna knows that once Kate dies her life will not have a purpose. For her to be useful she has to keep Kate alive. That is a big responsibility for a thirteen-year-old girl. She wants to be able to play hockey and travel the world, yet she is stuck going wherever her sister goes, as it is her job to keep her alive. Anna was accepted into a prestigious hockey camp but was not allowed to attend, as they might have needed her to help Kate. She does not get to live her own life because she is taking care of someone else’s. If Anna ever wants to go anywhere on her own for an extended period she would have to risk Kate dying. This is not a responsibility anybody should have and forcing it on a thirteen-year-old girl is irresponsible as a
takes her breath away. It seemed that in giving life to her child she had
I told you why Anne had felt this way during her ordeal, and what this reveals about her character and her views about life. Anne is a strong and heroic young girl who has a heart for others and she is very compassionate towards others. Which is a great quality to have in that time period she was going through? No one could have done it better than Anne. She helped people look at the good in the situations she was never the one mention the negative things. You think how you would react to this situation. Would you be buoyant? Or would you be colorless in this and always look at the crummy never say anything positive. All quotes can be found in the collections book pages
This novel, My Sister’s Keeper, is the telling story of a preteen girl Anna caught in-between a big family issue, her sister’s life. Anna Fitzgerald is the genetically designed daughter of Sara and Brain, designed to save her sister Kate’s life, who is suffering from leukemia. The decision Anna makes to stop being Kate’s donor tears the Fitzgerald family apart. With such a divisive topic to have the novel based...
lucky and she will be happy...'... they made no effort to prepare the child for life”(Allende 262-7). This
... stresses, changes, and issues that typical adolescents have to deal with. She still had to figure out what her plans were for her future, which ended up changing due to the accident; she still had relationships that developed or ended, and she had to figure out how to deal with those stressors; she still had to go through the process of finding out who she was and what her identity meant like other adolescents her age; and she had to deal with the transition from being a typical teenager to an emerging adult. The entire novel centers on these changes and how Anna reacts to the many twists that come up in her life, and because of this, the novel shows what it is like to live through the adolescent stage of life.
...ut the relationship between the storyteller and her unborn kids? Does she really love the
... research experiment and not like a patient or with the decency she deserved. Some of the things that the doctors did to Vivian were so unethical and so inhumane that it makes one cringe just thinking about it. Fortunately for Vivian, Susie was the light at the end of the tunnel. She provided care that was compassionate, kind and professional. One hopes that in the future I can embody the qualities that Susie had and display them to my patients on a daily basis. In nursing school we are so focused on knowing the science behind everything or getting our medication out in time that we forget why we became nurses in the first place. We became nurses so we could care for others that could not care for themselves. Susie was the true definition of a nurse and provided patient centered compassionate care to Vivian allowing her to die in a dignified and meaningful way.
The novel follows Anna Frith, a woman living during the great plague of London in 1666. Her village of Eyam decides to quarantine itself to prevent further spread of the disease, and as more and more of the villagers succumb to it, she has to take up numerous roles and gain skills she otherwise would never have developed. In doing this she learns more about herself, what she is capable of, and makes an emotional journey. For instance, when a young orphan girl is threatened with the loss of her claim, her only source of income, unless she can procure a full dish of lead, Anna takes it upon herself to assist her. This shows both Anna’s emotional change from ...
IS. Anna is always sad and upset without any reason, making her the most miserable character in the film. Her character simply exudes existential anxiety. When Anna gets to see Sandro after their long departure she says it was harrowing to be apart yet she does not want to see him. When they are finally reunited Sandro asks Anna how she is, which Anna replies back that she is feeling awful. Sandro asks why and Anna mocks him asking, out of her own frustration. Anna never knows what she wants, she just knows that she does not want a “conventional marriage”. She aspires to live an “authentic existence” where she has an identity apart from her husband and father. Since this is impossible for women in her social class Anna’s existence disappears. Anna’s disappearance is a significant turning point in L’Avventura, in view of the fact that there is such a contrast in the characters’ behavior before and after the disappearance. Half way through the film one
provide the care that her patient so desperately needed and deserved at that moment and
Susan has a successful career, but she wants to have a family also and balance the two. She finally becomes pregnant after trying for a long time, but tests show that the baby will be born with Down syndrome. She has been trying for so long, and now the doctor is recommending an abortion.
...to make Kate as happy as she could. Anna made the right decision by listening to her sister. Kate was clearly very ill and exhausted of continuously going into surgery. I would grant Kate’s wishes, just as Anna did for Kate. Family is very important, listening and acting on what your family wants and needs is very essential.
She goes from only caring about herself to having compassion for others and the hardships that they are experiencing. These terms are ironically coined the concern for self and others. By the end of the movie, Anna no longer aspires to obtain wealth and material possessions, but instead to acquire true love and happiness. In the beginning, Anna is concerned with being married to a wealthy, renowned doctor as well as having a luxurious apartment and spending time with her snooty friends. As the movie approaches the end, Anna becomes more concerned for others when she decides to follow her heart even if it means losing everything she dreamed of having. She acknowledges the concept that intimacy and contentment are more meaningful than acquiring prosperity, lust, and expensive
Type 1 diabetes took over her body for years. She was almost blinded, her kidneys were destroyed, and it was the catalyst of many life-threatening medical events. Her health rapidly diminished to where her doctors prepared for dialysis and placed her on the kidney and pancreas list for a transplant. 25 years after the transplant she is still seeing how organ transplant changed her life in many great ways. Her kidney and pancreas were provided by a man, who was registered as an organ donor, passed away. The double transplant she received caused her health, and her life, to immediately be taken back over by her. She never ended up needing dialysis or any insulin injections since her transplant. Years after her transplant, she learned that her donor was a man named Doug Shriver. He died in a tragic car accident. Faith Carlin stated, “Doug’s selfishness and generosity gave me a new life because he made the decision to become an organ donor.” She thanks Doug and his family every single day for making it possible for her to gain her life back. She met most of Doug’s family, which she calls a blessing. “My transplant provided me with great hope and excitement for the future” said Faith. Doug changed Faith’s life forever, to where she could finally live her life outside of the hospital and doctor appointments. (25 years
...ething big with their lives and they might also donate money to save other prematurely born babies.