I read the book and watched the movie of "My Sister's Keeper." This story is about a girl named Anna who has a sister with cancer, named Kate. Anna was born to donate body parts to Kate to keep her alive. Anna decides that she doesnt want to do it anymore so she gets a lawyer, named Campbell Alexander, to sue her parents to the rights to her own body.
The book and the movie have many simularities to them. They both have some of the same events taking place. At the beginning of both stories, Anna asked Campbell why he had a service dog, and he responded, sarcasticly, that he had an Iron Lung. Also, Campbell did not tell people why he had the dog for the same reason; he did not want people to pity him. Another simulary was Kate meeting Taylor, he was a patient at the hospital. In both stories Kate and Taylor go to the hospital prom togather and Taylor also dies. Also, Kate tries to kill herself. Plus, the only reason Anna was born was to save Kate. Lastly, Anna wins her case.
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Kate is sick and tired. She is just waiting to die. Anna is confident and persistant. She is very confident by standing up to her parents and she is persistant by not giving up on the lawsuit, eventhough it is ripping her family apart. Campbell is very sarcastic in the beginning of both stories. As it goes on, he begins to open up to Anna, and he becomes more honest. Lastly, Sara, the mother of the family, is very protecting of Kate. Sometimes she ends up hurtung Kate more than protecting
Comparing the book to the movie you can clearly tell what certain things are different. For example, Sydelle Pulaski worked for Mr. Westing in the movie but only talked over the intercom. This not only caused a lot of drama but more depth to the plot. Also, Crow didn’t go to jail but they did talk about most of the consequences of her going to jail. This made a little bit more serious and emotional instead of just letting it go.
Wednesday: Sitting in Campbell's office, Anna pictures how her funeral would be like if not that many people would attend unlike Kate's funeral. While thinking, Campbell receives a call from Anna's mother stating that Anna has changed her mind on sueing her. Listening to the call, Anna declares that that is a false statement.
There are other significant similarities between the movie and the book, so if I overlooked or forgot any extremely crucial points, forgive me.
There were a lot of differences that I noticed between the book and movie. One of the differences that I really liked is how we got a sense of Abigail’s insanity in the movie. She looks and sounds a lot more convincing in the movie than in the book. One thing that I noticed is that in the movie, when Abigail is trying to wake Betty up, many of the girls who has also danced with them were there as well, yet in the book it was only Abigail, Betty, Mercy and Mary Warren in the room. Then when Betty finally awakes and starts to yell for her mother, Abigail is very harsh in the way that she yells at Betty telling her that her mom is "dead and buried.
The actor choices from the film compare to what the book envisioned, but also contrast. The character of Daisy is not similar in the film to what the book
In this scene where Kate is ready to die and relive every moment of your life and the beautiful moments that happened to his family. Also when she was counted as his love and Taylor as suffered by the death of his first love. Also explains that she is upset because her parents are using Anna trying to save her and that's what hurts most. However we parents are not ready to let go of Kate and feel the need to continue the fight against cancer. Anna who is helping her sister to survive no longer wants to continue grasping because she wants to live his life as everyone else. She wants to do things knowing if he donates his kidney to his sister will not be able to do to do such as pregnant in her entire
Kate is also very tough and modest like most men, who are raised and taught to hide their emotions in public. However deep inside Kate is still a female. In the second investigation which Kate had with Ellen, Kate does end up allowing herself to break down with tears in the midst of her conversation about her dead lover Anne. Here, Forrest shows that even though some women are masculine, they are limited to an extent because they are in custody to the biological determinism which determines the limits for the advancing of success based on sex (Rubin Thinking Sex). It is important that Forrest was able to show both sides of Kate: the tough masculine side and the soft elegant feminine side.
Foremost, it is very recognizable that the overall flow of the story is same, but most of the plot events are not the same. Though, there were same events happening in both novel and the movie. For example, in both
However I feel that Brian and Sara forgot to focus on what could be better for Anna when the time came for her to live her own life. At first Anna was experiencing psychological altruism which sometimes motivated her to put Kate’s interests ahead of her own. As Anna grew older she realized that the donations were at her own expense and she wanted to be free. Everyone, including children has the right to act in one’s own best interest. Therefore if Anna felt that she was not living to her best ability because of her connection with Kate then this egoism should be respected. This contrasts her mother, Sara’s psychological egoism, because she was acting in her own interests to save Kate. In this case, what Sara finds acceptable for Anna is negligent against Anna’s autonomy.
She just got force to marry a man due to whatever her father agrees on will happen, Pertruchio also was only in it for the money. He knew that if he got Katherine that he would receive some of the high class family earnings. “will you nill you marry me” said pertuchio while he was twisting kates words when he was trying to wou her over. In the Movie Patrick took a different approach at trying to get kate to like him. The way he tried to win her over I by trying to get to know her and take her on dates, He wanted her to like him back as he sang to her and took her out to have a good and dun time.
Both share the same plot, and there are very little differences between the two. These are a few of the differences that I was able to notice between the book and the movie. There are several others throughout the story, but they are all just as minute and in the end they have no effect on the outcome of the story. Overall, I was very impressed with the movie and it was very true to the book. I have seen my share of movies that were adaptations from books that did not do the book justice, but this one is almost exactly like the book, so it was very
My Sister's Keeper is the story of Anna Fitzgerald, who by the age of thirteen has undergone many blood transfusions, numerous surgeries, and multiple bone marrow transplants. “Most babies are accidents, not me. I was engineered, born to save my sister’s life.” At the beginning of the movie Anna explains that she as conceived to be a donor for her sister, Kate. Kate is a 16 year old with renal failure due to a very rare form of leukemia. The girls' parents expect Anna to donate her kidney to help her sister. Instead of donating the kidney, Anna files a lawsuit against her parents for the rights of her own body so that she could not be forced into the surgery against her will. This causes mixed reactions between Anna’s parents, Brain
Does Anna feel objectified as a "spare parts baby"? Does Kate feel objectified as a sick person?
Normally, when a movie is made about a story in a book the two stories are not exactly the same. The movie is adjusted by adding small details or leaving out some parts in order to make the story more
Hesitantly, Anna takes the stage and confess that she filed the lawsuit against her parents because her sister Kate told her to do so. Anna also explains that Kate asked her not to donate her kidney because she was bored of being ill and expecting to die. At this particular moment, Campbell suffered an epileptic seizure. When Campbell woke up, he explained to Julia that epileptic seizures are the reason that made him leave her, and that's why he has a guard dog, because it can predict when the next seizure will come. Although Anna loves Kate, a part of her wanted Kate to die so she will not remain restricted with Kate and to have more freedom in her life. In the end, the Judge decides to give Campbell the medical power of attorney over Anna and grant her the medical emancipation. On the way back, Campbell and Anna were injured in a car accident, and Anna underwent irreversible damage in her brain.