4/18/13
“My Sister’s Keeper”
“My Sister’s Keeper” is a film about a young girls struggle
to convince her family, a lawyer, and herself that she wants to stop being a
crutch in her sister’s road to recovery. Her older sister was diagnosed with
leukemia when she was very young and their only hope in saving her was to
“build” a baby that would be a perfect match to poke and prod at to give her
sister what she needed in order to try and keep her alive. Her older sister
told her she was giving up and to go to a lawyer to ask for the rights to her
own body so her parents would stop using her to help her sister. This movie is
definitely one of the hardest movies I’ve watched, because it is so sad to see
how hard it is for parents to make the best decisions to help their children.
Although the parents were doing it to save one daughter, they were putting the
other through so many procedures that she didn’t understand and that were
hurting her. What I see a lot of time with parents is they try so hard to
protect their children that they end up making their child less independent. It
is hard to say if I were a mother what I would do in this type of situation.
Cancer is a nasty disease and for now incurable. It took the daughter with
leukemia actually telling her parents that she was giving up for them to
finally stop. Although in the end it was a horrible loss, there is hope for the
other daughter to finally get the attention she needed since the parents
revolved their attention completely around the daughter with leukemia. It is
important for parents to have children for the right reasons and only if they
are ready. Having a child to save another isn’t looking out for the best
interest of both children.
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