My Sisters Keeper

MSK Essay

Have you ever had a friend that was diagnosed with cancer? Well in the story “My Sisters Keeper” its about a little girl that grew up throughout her life with cancer and her sister that was her donor. The story has many central ideas for instance everything is not what it seems, give everyone in your family equal attention, and sisterhood. These are all important in life and in this story.

First of all, throughout the story many things didn’t seem like what it truly was it look like. Campbell, it looked like he wanted to help Anna to get a easy win but he actually helped her because he had epilepsy and he didn’t have control of his body. It looked like Kate wanted to overcome cancer yet she truly wanted to die. It looked like Anna wanted to stop helping Kate but she just didn’t want to reveal Kate’s secret.

Next, give everyone in your family equal attention many people don;t think things like this matters but when someone in most families get really sick or a disease they usually get more attention than the rest of the family members in the story it happened constantly. Jesse was forgotten a lot he came home late and nobody noticed he was gone, he also had dyslexia and his parents took long to find out because they were worried about Kate, and they even broke promises to Jesse, “Dad promised Jesse to watch him skate in the parking lot but then Kate got a nosebleed”. Anna also felt jealous Kate received many presents often when Anna got none, she also felt like the only time she had attention was when she needed to help Kate, “They don’t really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't be alive, if it wasn’t for Kate being sick.

Finally, sisterhood is a big thing in this book there are many sisters in the book Anna and Kate, Sara and Zanne, Julia and Izzy, and