Critical Perspectives in My Sister's Keeper

Critical Perspectives in My Sister's Keeper

Introduction

Sister's Keeper tells the story of a young girl who has Leukemia, and who depends upon her sister, Anna, to supply blood, bone marrow etc. to keep her alive. The story is a heart rending one, but the ethics involved in a story such as this begin even before the birth of Anna (Shannon, 2000). The idea that parents could produce a genetically perfect match for her sister in order to be used for supplying those elements needed to keep Kate alive is ethically questionable. In this paper, we are going to focus on critical perspective which includes feminist, historical, archetypal, cultural, Marxist, and reader response.

Page# 201 “Rits had told Ridgeway the Feminist Union would be after him if there were more trouble”

Analysis: Feminist's perspective: In looking at the text from page#201 the reader see the example of feminist perspective in this Ham rideway was harassing Nina and Rits come to know this that that was Ridgeway. The writer tackles the issue from a feminist point of view; possibly alienate some of her potential male readers (Nicholl, 2008). In this book reader can see that the use of sexuality of men over women has been a central arena for feminist action. There are different feminist moments which are considered very dangerous by many Americans.

Page# 265 "In my family, we seem to have…..what we do."

Analysis: Historical Perspective: The importance of this story is that it displays that situations in life are not as easy or as bad as we make them out to be. Many teenagers complain about petty problems such as boys and pimples but at least they are able to experience these regular problems in life. This story shows how easily we misinterpret and take for granted the gift of life. The story also allows one to realize that life is as you take it.

Page# 217 “Maybe it's because Jesse …command at least one uncontrollable thing.”

Analysis: Archetypal perspective: this text of the book says that both Jessa and brain denotes Kate's cancer to the traits of fire. For them both (fire and Kate's cancer) were uncontrollable and destructive forces. They both recognize the fire in the same way but on the same time he disagrees with actions of Jesse (Shanks, 2005). He says to her that he knows about the inflammable but he does not inflame the fire because it ...