Choices

A child enters a candy store and lights up the whole store with his grin. He glances around at the labels. Dum Dums, Toostie Rolls, Nerds, Lemon drops, Twizzlers, Rock Candy, and millions more. "How many things can I get mom?" he said overwhelmed with all the options. "Only one." the child frowns and starts another lap around the store, and all he thinks is what am I going to choose. Life is full of choices. There are little ones like what candy should I buy or to big ones, such as should I let my sister kill herself. In My Sisters Keeper Anna has a sister, Kate, who has cancer and is sick of ruining everyone's life, especially Anna's. But the thing is, should Anna choose to give her a kidney or not.

Kate loves her sister and would do anything for Anna. She is the only person who understands Anna and the one who doesn't think of her as the girl whose sister has cancer. But Kate wants to be dead so that Anna  could do whatever she wanted to like play hockey, move away, and not be known just as Kate's sister. So Kate tried to commit suicide but couldn't do it so she asked Anna to not give her the kidney. Even if it meant killing her, Anna would do anything for Kate to make her happy.

That didn't necessarily mean Anna would be happy. Everybody thought Anna didn't want to give Kate her kidney. Then they find out Anna would donate everything to Kate, she would want herself to have cancer instead of her. She wants Kate to live and experience everything that she can. Anna would have no one to talk to if Kate was dead. In the book it seems like Anna had no friends. There was this one date she had but other than that Kate was her only friend and nobody wants to lose a friend.

Tough decisions...touch choices.   Anna needs to make a choice. It's not about Dum Dums or Tootsie Rolls; it's about life or death.